Posted on 01/18/2005 6:40:48 PM PST by Pikamax
Extremist cleric staged al-Qaeda recruiting rally By Sean O’Neill and Richard Ford
THE radical Islamist cleric whose internet sermons are being investigated by police has held a secret conference at which British Muslims were urged to join al-Qaeda. About 600 people, including women and children, punched the air and chanted Allahu akbar (God is greatest) as they were shown videos of hijacked airliners crashing into the World Trade Centre in New York on September 11, 2001. Omar Bakri Mohammed, the radical Syrian-born cleric, said that if the British Government did not relax its tough anti- terrorism laws, the response from Muslims would be “horrendous”. He added: “I declare we should ourselves join the global Islamic camp against the global crusade camp.”
The event was held this month at The Friends Meeting House in Central London, the British headquarters of the Quaker movement. Mr Bakri Mohammed’s followers booked the hall for a health conference entitled Women’s Dawah UK and the Quakers were unaware that it was a political gathering.
Two reporters from United Press International, a United States-based news agency, attended and reported a series of inflammatory speeches by Mr Bakri Mohammed and his cohorts. One speaker said that Western governments would face “a 9/11 day after day after day”.
As the crowd chanted, the man shouted: “Whether they be stones, whether they be sticks, whether they be knives, whether they be bombs, whatever they may be, prepare as much as you can.”
With the language of Mr Bakri Mohammed and his followers becoming more extreme, pressure is mounting on ministers and the police to act against him. Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, told The Times that he has asked his officials for a report on Mr Bakri Mohammed’s latest activities.
The Muslim cleric came to Britain in 1986 after being expelled from Saudi Arabia and was granted indefinite leave to remain here. Mr Clarke said that the Home Office would help him to leave Britain, as some reports have suggested he wishes. “I have asked my officials that they explore the truth or otherwise that he wishes to return to Syria or Lebanon, and after that exploration we will do all in our power to assist him to return.”
Scotland Yard’s anti-terrorist branch, which is studying his internet speeches for evidence of incitement offences, has held informal discussions with the Crown Prosecution Service.
Mr Bakri Mohammed, 47, attempted to deny his comments and challenged The Times to produce evidence that he had told his internet listeners to join al-Qaeda and follow Osama bin Laden. He said: “These words were not just taken out of context, they were totally fabricated. It is complete fabrications and lies.”
In response, an extract from our recordings of one of Mr Bakri Mohammed’s sermons last week has been made available on timesonline. On it the cleric can be heard describing al-Qaeda as the “victorious group”, which Muslims are “obliged” to join.
A spokeswoman for the Quakers said that they were “hugely distressed” that they had been duped into hosting the conference. She said: “The Quakers are known for our commitment to non-violence and this was absolutely against everything we stand for.”
The event was held this month at The Friends Meeting House in Central London, the British headquarters of the Quaker movement.
Oh, now that's a real shocker... </sarcasm>
How many decades until the British put the moron Bakri Mohammed on an airplane for Timbuktu?
Another pathetic, liberal, pacifist, quasi-religious organization duped by the "Religion of Peace...
If he's free to threaten and recruit more terrorists, those laws are about as tough as melted butter.
"A spokeswoman for the Quakers said that they were 'hugely distressed' that they had been duped into hosting the conference"
Exactly what did this moron THINK a rabid Islamakazi recruiter was going to do...sing Barney songs and make pretty paper flowers? Being dedicated to non-violence requires a non-functional cerebral cortex? People like him are dedicated to crushing all kufre and that includes her.
Guess we can add the Quakers to the 5th column.
Oh, I seriously doubt they were duped.
If he is not hung for treason, Britain is lost.
You may be correct. The Left's love affair with these cretins just points out what I have known for a long time. (Well, at least since I left the Left behind.) Leftists love the terrorists because the "enemy of my enemy (ie:Bush, conservatives, etc) is my friend." Also, the left is very violent towards anyone who disagrees with them. I've met some so-called "peace-niks" who believe that conservatives deserve to die for denying socialism, communism, and letting the 3rd World wallow in poverty...
Please put me on that ping list - great artwork.
He should be arrested for solicitation of murder.
You've gotta be joking, the gu'mint knew what he was upto, it's only now that it has hit the press, bonehead Clark is looking into him.......Yeah sure.
This pig has been in the UK living on state benefits for 19 yrs, which means we, the UK are paying him to be here. The total he has had is @ $500,000.
Ping to an interesting article.
(SNIP)The alliance with Communists would bear much fruit in the AFSC's propaganda, as well. In the 1972 AFSC pamphlet Non-Violence: Not First For Export, author John Bristol explicitly describes the feelings that the AFSC has for the West in general, and America in particular. In a passage forgiving terrorists for their violent ways, Bristol asserts that "terrorism...repeatedly...is used to signify violent action on the part of oppressed peoples in Asia, Africa, Latin America or within the black ghettos of America, as they take up the weapons of violence in a desperate effort to wrest for themselves the freedom and justice denied them by the systems that presently control their lives." But who exactly is the cause of the 'system' terrorists are trying to overthrow? Bristol places the blame squarely at the feet of the West. "What millions of middle-class and other non-poor fail to realize is that they are themselves accomplices each day in meeting [sic.] out inhuman, all-pervading violence upon their fellows."
Bristol concludes that the AFSC is uninterested in promoting world peace as long as the United States has any sort of power, and does not apply its own standards to other nations. "Instead of trying to devise non-violent strategy and tactics for revolutionaries in other lands, we will bend every effort to defuse militarism in our own land and to secure the withdrawal of American economic investment in oppressive regimes in other parts of the world"
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Thanks for the ping piasa.
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Ping to you Mr. Galt.
Kick the basturds out -- if they want to join the global Islamist camp, they should be forced to leave the Western countries.
ON THE NET...
http://haganah.org.il/harchives/003430.html
January 08, 2005
"Brit captured in Iraq an Al Muhajiroun member"
January 8, 2005 (Aaron Klein WorldNetDaily.com):
Google Search Term: "Omar Bakri Mohammed"
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Omar+Bakri+Mohammed%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0
Google Search Term: "muhajiroun"
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22muhajiroun%22+%0D%0A&hl=en&lr=&filter=0
Google Search Term: "muhaajiroun"
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22muhaajiroun%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0
After further thought......keep the basturd close and surveill and 'bug' the devil out of him and the folks he hangs out with.
Whoa! That sort of rhetoric sounds just like Marxist tripe.
I've got news for these leftist, pacifist idiots--the blood-thirsty, violence-loving cretins who flew the planes into the WTC were not oppressed. They all came from wealthy, educated backgrounds. They were religious fanatics who wage war--yeah, WAR!--against all non-Muslims and want barbaric, 7th Century Islam to rule the world. Oh, and they also wanted their fair share of virgins (and young boys "like pearls") in paradise to service them through eternity.
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