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SNIPPET: "And thus ends the saga of "Shiekh Umar Rabie, Emir of al Qaeda in the UK". I haven't commented publicly on this for some time because I was involved in the case. I testified at Ishaq Kanmi's terrorism trial last year and was asked not to comment publicly, but now that he's plead guilty that commitment has passed. I don't think I'm giving away too much when I say that long before UK authorities had "The Blackburn Resistance " under surveillance, they were on our radar screens. Why? Because a year before the "Emir of al Qaeda in the...

There is a recently detected worrying concern for medical science. It is a new form of (temporary?) religious amnesia afflicting Muslim media commentators in the West, They simply can’t remember a thing about the contents of the Ibn Ishaq biography of Mohammad. Some simply can’t believe such a book was actually written, and especially not by a Muslim! It surely wasn’t meant to escape from the confines of the Arabian Peninsula. Under hypnosis they mutter the magical phrase “golden example” (apparently set by Mohammad for his followers), and recall their early child hood when they were told how Mohammad was...