Posted on 12/27/2008 1:18:40 AM PST by Cindy
U.K.: Mosque "committed to peace, diversity and interfaith dialogue" hosts conference featuring "spiritual advisor" to 9/11 jihadists
A spokesman for the mosque insists the conference organizers are just using their facilities. But no one seems perturbed enough about this "misunderstanding" and "hijacking" of Islam to cancel the conference or appearances by speakers like Anwar al-Awlaki and others named below. The full schedule of festivities can be found here.
(Excerpt) Read more at jihadwatch.org ...
"The publicity material for the all-day event appears to be a clear reference to the attacks on New York, and features meteors raining down on Manhattan, setting fire to the city and shattering the Statue of Liberty.
It has already drawn comparisons with the "Magnificent 19" poster, which praised the September 11 hijackers and was used to publicise a 2003 event organised by Al-Muhajiroun, whose leader Omar Bakri Mohammed was later banned from Britain."
“Muslim groups ‘linked to September 11 hijackers spark fury over conference’”
SNIPPET: “A Muslim group has provoked outrage after inviting an extremist linked to the 9/11 hijackers to speak at a conference which is being promoted with a picture of New York in flames.”
By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter
Last Updated: 12:09AM GMT 27 Dec 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The End of Time event at the East London Mosque, which is being publicised on internet sites including Facebook, will feature a videotaped lecture from Anwar al-Awlaki, who is banned from entering the United States after allegedly acting as a spiritual adviser to three of the September 11 terrorists.
Mr Awlaki, who lives in Yemen, has been described as “an al-Qaeda supporter” by the US Department of Homeland Security, which has accused him in recent months of using video lectures to “encourage terrorist attacks”.”
That’s putting it mildly.
Likely to be a target-rich environment. I wonder if the Israelis know about this conference?
Mosque “committed to peace, diversity and interfaith dialogue”
http://www.nefafoundation.org/documents-original.html#awlaki1208
http://www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/awlakishebab1208.pdf
http://www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/shebabawlakireply1208.pdf
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http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/12/alqaidalinked_us_citizen_addre.php
“Al-Qaida-Linked U.S. Citizen Addresses Shabaab al-Mujahideen; Shabaab Responds”
By Evan Kohlmann
SNIPPET: “The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement issued by Anwar al-Awlaki, an Al-Qaida-linked U.S. citizen, addressed to the Shabaab al-Mujahideen, as well as a communiqué Shabaab issued in response.”
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