Posted on 07/21/2007 12:58:09 AM PDT by Lorianne
THERE was a time when Omar Bakri Mohammed embodied every stereotype of the jihadi extremist. From his perch in London, he threw around words like “kafir”— infidel — to describe Christians and Jews, and he openly praised the attackers of Sept. 11.
But sitting recently in his new library overlooking the scenic Mount Lebanon in this northern city, with a bloody battle raging at a Palestinian refugee camp a few miles away between the Lebanese Army and Fatah al Islam, a group inspired by Al Qaeda, Mr. Bakri presented himself as a changed man. Whether the shift is as meaningful as he asserts is an open question.
He speaks of peace, decrying the unnecessary use of violence and emphasizing the sanctity of life. The death of innocents, he says, has to be curtailed.
“I want to support Muslims by saving their blood and their life,” Mr. Bakri said, as he began outlining his efforts to help negotiate a settlement to the standoff in the camp. “My job is to calm the fighting and to open a dialogue.” His belief in radical Islam remains the same.
Mr. Bakri grew to infamy after the suicide bombings of London’s transportation system in 2005, when he and a group of other radical imams who had been preaching in mosques became lightning rods for the creeping extremism of some young British Muslims.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I doubt he has any problem with Muslims killing Kaffir (infidels).
Bakri and Paris Hilton are cut from the same cloth.
When the struggle is waged with verbal bombastics, Bakri is in his element. When it is waged, just down the street, with RPG’s and Kalashnikovs, Mr. Bakri becomes Dag Hammershold. I remember how he viciously criticized the Brits. When they decided to deport him he weeped and whined.
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Read the truth about all this here: http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/188774.php
This guy has not changed his stripes at all.
A perfectly good word that has been appropriated by the bad guys!
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