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The Dark Side of Freedom: Terrorists Celebrate 911 in London Mosque
efreedomnews.com ^ | 9/15/02 | Jonathan Rhodes

Posted on 09/16/2002 1:16:00 AM PDT by efnwriter

efreedomnews         WAR ON TERRORISM - AN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE
The Dark Side of Freedom:
Terrorists Celebrate 911 in London Mosque:
Cleric Wanted by FBI
Jonathan Rhodes
efreedomnews.com
September 15, 2002

Overlooked by the media - for the most part - while America mourned its dead and honored its heroes on September 11, 2002, an "obscene spectacle" took place at a  London mosque. DONNA ABU-NASR, AP Writer and Farrukh Dhondy, City Journal Online reported on the surreal "celebration" of the WTC attack.

Finsbury Park mosque A meeting entitled "Sept. 11, 2001: A Towering Day in History," found over 1000 Muslims gathered at 1 PM in order to "applaud the action of the WTC bombers at exactly 1:46 PM London time - the exact hour, a year earlier, when the first plane hit its target in New York... Menacing young men with kaffiyehs over their faces stood on the mosque's steps to prevent unfriendly journalists from entering." 500 of London's Metropolitan Police stood by to protect their rights to hold this meeting.


Abu Hamza al-Masri
Abu Hamza al-Masri, British citizen since 1985, engineer turned cleric, chaired the meeting. He heads the Finsbury Park mosque, well known as the jihad indoctrination center for Islamic youth in England. Several detainees in Guantanamo captured fighting for the Taliban got their start at Finsbury Park.


The one-eyed, one-handed mullah is wanted by the FBI for questioning. He recruited Richard Reid (shoe-bomber) and is implicated in training Zacharias Moussaoui. England has denied extradition.

His funds were frozen by the U.S. Treasury for his alleged membership in the Islamic Army of Aden. That organization is linked to al-Qaida and claimed responsibility for the bombing of the USS Cole

He is wanted in Yemen on criminal charges stemming from the arrest of six of his followers, including his son, arrested for terrorism after being caught with weapons, explosives, plans and maps for attacking British diplomats. Hamza's response to the arrests:

Hamza said "he was in favor of armed struggle against all agencies of the British state that supported corrupt regimes. If these men, including his son, were found guilty and executed, they would be martyrs to the cause of Islam."

He says he lost his left hand and eye fighting the former Soviet-backed government in Afghanistan and "...he uses these injuries as his warrior credentials. The claim is a lie.  A British documentary producer, Alu Jamal, interviewed him on camera in Pakistan for a BBC film a year after the Russians left Afghanistan. The footage shows Hamza with his eye and hand intact. His injuries probably result from mishandling explosives. "
 

Omar Bakri Mohammed The headliner for this horror pageant was Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad, the London-based leader of the Islamic cult Al Muhajiroun, which has issued a decree calling for the murder of "those who wage war against Allah". His fundamentalist view of Islam has no room for democracy or other religions.

At this event he was quoted, "Definitely al-Qaida has got rational justification for what they did on Sept. 11."

His website Al Muhajiroun contains fatwahs calling for the murder of General Musharraf of Pakistan and others, like the US, who would resist the universal rule of his Islam.

“The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His apostle and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement”

Other fatwahs demand that separation of church and state (secularism) is a Christian/Jewish tradition against the laws of Allah and commands Muslims to take no part in elected government but instead that they reject all secular governments and follow only the laws of Mohammed as directed by the mullahs.

The group recruits on university campuses and encourages members to join armed struggles abroad. Its goal is to make Britain an Islamic state.


 Bakri, a Syrian  by birth, founded Hizb ut-Tahrir in Britain, from which he split claiming differences with the Middle East-based leadership. Hizb ut-Tahrir was a jihad group active in Turkey and targeted secular leaders of Arab states. British home secretary  David Blunkett is investigating Bakri and his group but "insisted it was important to strike a balance between preventing incitement to violence and preserving the right to free speech...At the point when we believe it to be no longer acceptable and when he is literally inciting others to go out and engage in acts which threaten other people's lives, we will take action against him."  [BBC]


Mr. Dhondy speculated in his article that:

"Scotland Yard’s information office refuses to answer questions as to why Abu Hamza isn’t under arrest. Several leaders of the Muslim community in Britain allege that he is working for the British Secret Services—in particular MI5—as an agent provocateur, but the more likely explanation is that he is more useful to the surveillance services as a free agent than he would be in detention. The police outside the “celebration” had a dozen or so photographers videotaping or taking snapshots of everyone coming in or out of the mosque."

 If the reader needs a clear explanation of the perverted fundamentalist version of Islam, go to Al Muhajiroun and link to the "fatwas." 

It is untenable that the clearly seditious cult terrorist recruiters Abu Hamza al-Masri and Omar Bakri are free today.

How guilty does one have to be?

War on Terrorism



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 911; celebration; mosque; terrorism

1 posted on 09/16/2002 1:16:00 AM PDT by efnwriter
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To: efnwriter
Links of Interest:

ANANOVA.com: "SHOE BOMB SUSPECT 'WAS TARGETING ENEMIES OF ISLAM'" (ARTICLE NOTE: The suspect is Richard Reid.) (091202)

CNS NEWS.com: "RADICALS HAIL BIN LADEN AS 'HERO'" by Mike Wendling (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "London (CNSNews.com) - Attendees at a radical Islamic conference held one year after the Sept. 11 attacks hailed terrorist leader Osama bin Laden as a "hero" and warned of possible suicide bombings in the United States and Britain. The conference at the Finsbury Park mosque in north London was organized by al-Muhajiroun, a radical group that advocates the worldwide imposition of strict Islamic law. Wednesday's proceedings were led by al-Muhajiroun leader Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed and Abu Hamza al-Masri, who is wanted in Yemen for his alleged connections to the Islamic Army of Aden - the group that claimed responsibility for the bombing of the USS Cole in October 2000.") (091202)

CITY-JOURNAL.org: "LONDON MUSLIMS 'CELEBRATE' 9/11 Jihadist Mullahs Urge 1,000 Followers to Learn the Murderous Lessons of the WTC Attack" by Farrukh Dhondy (September 11, 2002)

TELEGRAPH.co.uk: "LONDON RALLY FOR FANATICS" by Phillip Johnston (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The meeting at Finsbury Park mosque is being organised by al-Muhajiroun (The Emigrants), a fundamentalist organisation that is dedicated to the establishment of a world Islamic state.") (September 11, 2001)

ICB BIRMINGHAM.icnetwork.co.uk: "MUSLIM LEADER WARNS BLAIR" by Richard Warburton, Birmingham Post (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The Birmingham-based leader of an extreme Islamic group last night issued a warning to Tony Blair that a military strike on Iraq would be an attack on three million Muslims in Britain. Dr Imran Waheed, of the Hizb ut-Tahrir political party, said America had engaged in a war against Islam, not against terror, and urged the Prime Minister to stop interfering in the Muslim world.") (090902)

Opinion.TELEGRAPH.co.uk - TELEGRAPH NEWS: "LONDON TO HOST ISLAMIC 'CELEBRATION' OF SEPTEMBER 11" by Thair Shaikh (090802)

News.TELEGRAPH.co.uk: "MUSLIM RADICALS IN BRITAIN ISSUE 'HOLY WAR' WARNING" by Anton La Guardia (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Radical Islamic leaders in London issued a thinly-veiled threat yesterday that the United States and Britain could face a terrorist onslaught akin to the September 11 attacks if they go to war on Iraq.") (081402)

2 posted on 09/16/2002 2:35:44 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy
This uprising of islamists must be stopped. It has been ignored far too long.
3 posted on 09/16/2002 3:14:33 AM PDT by snippy_about_it
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To: snippy_about_it
OUR FOCUS: "America is fighting a war against terrorism. Terrorism is our enemy. We are against terrorism. We will bring terrorists to justice. This is the American way!" -Cindy

4 posted on 09/16/2002 3:27:04 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: efnwriter
Britain nees to round these terrorists up.
5 posted on 09/16/2002 7:28:23 AM PDT by adam stevens
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To: efnwriter
It's time to cook Capt. Hook. Throw him to the gators.
6 posted on 09/16/2002 10:00:51 AM PDT by TigersEye
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To: TigersEye
Bump and bookmark
7 posted on 09/16/2002 10:51:11 AM PDT by TraumaDoc
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To: Cindy
Thank you for the links Cindy.
8 posted on 09/16/2002 11:00:20 AM PDT by TraumaDoc
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To: adam stevens
The Brits are fools by letting these terrorist lovers stay free. They're sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
9 posted on 09/16/2002 5:52:48 PM PDT by Jacob Kell
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