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A Syrian preacher recently accused Jews of being responsible for all the Muslims’ woes, including the ongoing civil strife throughout the Middle East. The remarks were made in a sermon at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, which aired on Syrian TV on June 28. … “They have two basic goals. The first is to divide the nations of the world, to pit them one against the other, and to spark war and civil strife among them. The second goal is to rip apart the nations of the world, destroying their notions, moral values, and codes, and making them stray from...

Radical preacher Abu Qatada must remain in custody following his arrest for allegedly breaching his bail conditions, a judge ruled today. UK Border Agency officials arrested Qatada on Friday, days ahead of the Government’s latest deportation bid in court, following raids by the Metropolitan Police Service Counterterrorism unit. … The court heard evidence suggesting Qatada had broken his bail condition which prohibits him from permitting mobile phones to be switched on in his house while he is present, the spokesman added. …

BERLIN - A former imam who called terrorists "martyrs" and was told to go home to Turkey has dropped a legal challenge against deportation from Germany, state of Berlin officials said Friday. The man, who has lived in Germany since 1971 and helped found the Mevlana Mosque in the German capital, caused outrage when concealed cameras inside his mosque recorded him attacking Germans in 2004 as "stinking infidels" who were bound for hell. Later he addressed a rally organized by the militant Turkish group Milli Gorus and praised suicide attackers in Jerusalem and Iraq as "martyrs." He challenged a 2005...

JAKARTA, July 30 (UPI) -- The leader of the Indonesian Mujahedeen Council says he wants to convert Indonesia into an "Allahcracy," it was reported Sunday. Abu Bakar Bashir, 68, free after serving two years in jail for his role in a bombing of two nightclubs in Bali in 2002 that killed 202 people, tells the Sunday Times of London that Islamist bombings "are reactions by Muslims to defend themselves." "The democratic system is not the Islamic way," he says. "It is forbidden. Democracy is based on people, but the state must be based on God's law. I call it Allahcracy."...

HATE PREACHER JAILED A race-hate Muslim cleric convicted of calling for his followers to murder non-believers has been jailed for nine years. An Old Bailey judge also recommended that Abdullah el-Faisal, 39, be deported when his sentence was served. El-Faisal was found guilty last month of three charges of soliciting murder and three charges involving stirring up racial hatred. The Jamaican told young British Muslims it was their duty to kill non-believers, Americans, Hindus and Jews. Shock He promised schoolboys they would be rewarded with 72 virgins in paradise if they died in a holy war. In his defence, Faisal...