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EXILED Islamic fanatic Omar Bakri Mohammed made an outrageous bid to flee bombed-out Beirut on a Royal Navy warship yesterday. But the people of Britain told him to go to hell. The Muslim cleric who once preached hate-filled rants against the UK and praised the 9/11 atrocities as "magnificent" begged to be allowed aboard one of the vessels ferrying Britons to safety. His plea, made only a few months after he quit Britain under pressure, fell on deaf ears. But Bakri still had the cheek to complain and wrote to embassy officials in Lebanon pleading to get back to the...

The man who from safe and agreeably leafy north London suburbia offered his continual support to suicide bombers and refused to condemn the attacks of 9/11 and July 7, all the while ranting against the perfidies of western civilisation and its infidel cockroach minions, now wishes to return to the bosom of Satan as quickly as possible.

On 12 August 2005, radical Islamic cleric Omar Bakri was banned from Britain for his hateful rhetoric, support of terrorism and inciteful sermons that all posed a security threat to the UK. On Thursday, Bakri attempted to board a ship evacuating people from Beirut and was turned away by British authorities. The terror sympathizer also tried to obtain a month long visa to Britain and was denied. The mad mullah, who hailed terrorists as “magnificent” martyrs, bought a £150,000 bolthole in the exclusive Doha district of Beirut. In March he boasted: “When I left England I bought a one-way ticket...

The wife of exiled radical preacher Omar Bakri has made her own appeal for him to be rescued from Lebanon, saying Tony Blair would have "blood on his hands" if he was hurt in the conflict. Hanan Fostok, who lives in London, said Bakri's children "missed their dad" and and were terrified that something would happen to the cleric in the war-torn country. Mrs Fostok told the London Evening Standard: "If something terrible happened then Tony Blair would have blood on his hands. My children and I, every time we watch television, we cry."

Exiled British Islamist Sheikh Omar bin Bakri in Beirut: We Will See the Banner of Islam 'Flying Over Big Ben and the British Parliament' Sheikh Omar bin Bakri, Syrian-born British Islamist and former leader of the Islamist "Al-Muhajirun" organization in Britain, whose activities in Britain were stopped in October 2005, now resides in Beirut. In an interview, Sheikh Omar bin Bakri told the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat that he would not consider returning to Britain until it "repealed its terrorist laws through which it terrorizes peaceful Muslims in Britain" and that "loyal Muslims in Britain will one day turn it,...

June 9, 2006 -- The Queens chapter of an international jihadist group - founded by the Brooklyn College grad accused of being an al Qaeda sympathizer - is terrorizing people in the extremist's old stomping grounds, residents said yesterday. "They have a lot of hatred [but] the police said they can't do anything about them," Kana Chauhan, president of the Jackson Heights Merchants Association, said of the radical group Al Muhajiroun. The organization is tied to suspected terrorist ally Syed "Fahad" Hashmi, a disciple of Syrian cleric Omar Bakri who was banned from speaking on English college campuses. The Queens-bred...

BRITAIN has failed to expel a single Muslim hate cleric since the 7/7 bombings, figures reveal. The news is a huge embarrassment to PM Tony Blair, who promised a crackdown. Britain is bottom of a European league for the number of extremist preachers expelled. Germany is top with more than 20 imams forcibly removed. Spain, Italy and France have each deported four and Holland three. Yet only Omar Bakri Mohammed has gone from Britain — and he went abroad of his own accord. He has merely been banned from returning. Mr Blair claimed “the rules of the game were changing”...

FIREBRAND Islamist cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed -- banned from Britain since August -- has urged Muslims to leave Europe. Mr Bakri, a Lebanese national of Syrian origin who was living in Britain since 1986, was interviewed by France 3 television in Beirut. He has been based there since the British Government stripped him of his residency in its campaign to rein in radical Islamist leaders. "There must be two distinct camps and so all Muslims must leave Europe," said Mr Bakri, declaring that he was convinced "the Islamic flag will fly one day over Downing Street". Mr Bakri is head...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The FBI has launched an inquiry into the activities of a grocery store owner who is allegedly the U.S. leader of a radical Islamic group banned in parts of Europe and the Middle East, authorities said. Iyad Hilal, an Islamic author and philosopher who owns an Orange County market, hasn't drawn much attention to his writings or his role in the group, Hizb ut-Tahrir, which means Party of Liberation. But since the July 7 bombings in London, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has suggested banning the group there. Hilal is apparently not suspected of any terrorist...

LONDON — Britain's crackdown on Islamic extremism widened Friday as officials barred radical Muslim cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed from returning to the country that has been his home for the past two decades. Bakri's close associate, Anjem Choudary, told The Associated Press that the ban would not silence the cleric, who left Britain for Lebanon after saying he would not tell police if he knew fellow Muslims were planning attacks such as last month's deadly transit bombings in London. "With the Internet and other means, we can still hear from him wherever he is preaching," Choudary said. "I don't think...

BEIRUT, 12 August 2005 — Radical cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed, who is being investigated in Britain for his remarks on the London bombings, was detained yesterday in Lebanon moments after giving an interview to Future Television. In the interview, the cleric said he did not intend on returning to Britain and denied having any links to Al-Qaeda. Bakri, who holds a Lebanese passport, said he left Britain of his own free will and that he had been thinking of returning to Lebanon, which he fled during the war in 1981. “I left Britain on my own accord though I have...

Sheik Mohammed has been portrayed in British newspapers as an incarnation of malice, suggesting he fled Britain in haste as the new restrictions closed in on him. LONDON, Aug. 12 - Britain said today that it would bar Sheik Omar Bakri Mohammed, a London-based Syrian cleric, from returning to the country from Lebanon. Sheik Mohammed, known for his incendiary anti-Western views, was granted asylum by Britain some 20 years ago and has lived here ever since.... Human-rights groups and British Muslims have attacked the move to deport the 10 foreigners, saying they feared they would be sent to countries where...

Bakri left Britain for the first time in 20 years at the weekend after gaining a Lebanese passport, apparently without the knowledge of the Home Office, to fly to Beirut where his mother lives. He receives £331.28 a month in incapacity benefit and £183.30 a month in disability living allowance because of a leg injury he suffered in his teens. Both payments will continue for at least six months while he is abroad, as long as he plans to return, as will the housing benefit on his home in Edmonton, north London, and his council tax benefit. His wife, who...

London-based radical Islamic preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed has been arrested in Lebanon.He was detained in capital Beirut as he was leaving a television interview - less than a week after he left Britain. The preacher caused controversy by saying he would not report a potential bomber to the police and is currently being investigated by UK authorities. Local media reported Mr Bakri was wanted for questioning about his entry to the country. But BBC correspondent Kim Ghattas said the Lebanese authorities had given no official reason for the detention. Mr Bakri is thought to have entered the country using a...

Radical cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed has been detained in Lebanon, Reuters news agency has quoted "security sources" as saying. A source said: "Sheikh Bakri was picked up by security forces as he was on his way to a local television station for an interview."

LONDON (Reuters) - An outspoken British-based Muslim cleric who left the country in the wake of a government pledge to crack down on radical Islamists said on Tuesday he had merely gone on holiday and planned to return. Syrian-born Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed, who has lived in Britain for 20 years, left for Lebanon on Saturday and associates said he would not come back. Bakri said on Tuesday he had decided to take a short break from the country because he feared the government was using clerics like him as an excuse to rush in new laws and "put pressure...

The radical Islamic cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed has announced he will return to Britain - unless the government says it does not want him back. The Syrian-born preacher left the UK for the Lebanon at the weekend, amid speculation he was to be investigated for treason. But he told the BBC he would return after a few weeks in the Middle East. The Muslim Council of Britain had said his departure would bring joy and happiness to the UK's Muslim community. Bakri Mohammed left the country shortly after it was revealed police and lawyers were to consider whether some outspoken...

An extreme Muslim cleric whose family have been living on benefits in Britain for 20 years says it would not be 'fair' to deport him. Speaking after the Prime Minister announced his clampdown, father-of-seven Sheik Omar Bakri said: "I have wives, children, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law. It would be hard on my family if I was deported." Since Syrian-born Bakri settled in Britain, he and his extended family have raked in benefits amounting to at least £300,000. He is registered disabled because of an injury to his leg during his childhood, and was recently supplied with a £31,000 Ford Galaxy under the...

Those who read Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed’s chilling remarks wherein he referred to Osama bin Laden as "a sincere man who fights against evil forces," and called for the flag of Islam to fly over the entire free world were likely shocked and horrified. But those who have been following the penetration of Wahhabism into western society have come to expect these comments, and already know what the rest of the world is reluctantly coming around to understand: that the roots of Islamo-fascism in western societies were planted decades ago, and are now beginning to bare fruit. This is not...

The Council on American Islamic Relations, better known as CAIR, fashions itself as a mainstream, moderate group. Well, read this article by noted scholar Daniel Pipes, and see if you agree with CAIR's claims. An excerpt: CAIR is particularly worrisome because it claims to be nothing but a mild public affairs organization promoting "interest and understanding among the general public with regards to Islam and Muslims in North America," and is widely seen as such. In fact, it is radical to the core; to quote its chairman, Omar M. Ahmad (as reported by the San Ramon Valley Herald in July...