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Britain

Is the attacker Abu Izzadeen the Jamaican national?

2017-03-23

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] According to the police chief of counterterrorism Mark Rowley reported by Agencies, the unknown attacker is "Asian" as we can see in the enhanced picture. But English newspaper "The Independent" reported on its website that it may be the Jamaican national Abu Izzadeen known as Trevor Brooks ... also Omar Brooks and Abu Baraa for reasons that no doubt made sense at the time. He was born in Britain of Jamaican parentage, worked as an electrician before discovering the joys of Mohammedanism, followed on short order by the additional pleasures of Al Muhajiroun and preaching fiery nothings for offshoot Al-Ghurabaa... in Britannia, where he was born 42 years ago. However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... a correspondent for ABC News reported that he had spoken to Abu Izzadeen’s lawyer, saying that Abu Izzadeen is still serving his sentence in a prison in London. "So it couldn’t have been him," as stated by the official front man for the Gurabaa organization established by the Lebanese - Syrian Omar Bakri Mohammed, currently living in Leb after being expelled from Britannia. Al Arabiya reported the news published by the independent based on "reports that it didn’t hear about."

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

British Son of Omar Bakri Mohammed is 'executed by ISIS in Syria' after fleeing there to fight

2015-11-05

Donated one to the evils of Allah. Allahu Akhbar, Asshole! The British son of the hate preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed is reported to have been executed while fighting with the terror group ISIS in Syria. Mohammed Omar Bakri Mohammed is said to have died in Aleppo province in the north of Syria, with it claimed he was executed by ISIS for apostasy. His father is a notorious hate preacher and the founder of the al-Qaeda-supporting Al-Muhajiroun network of Islamic extremists in the UK. Lebanon 24 claimed that his family have refused to confirm or deny the death of his son but said they believed he had been fighting in the province of Homs. It also quoted a security source as saying that his death could not be confirmed. The source said it could not be ruled out that the reports may be a ruse in an attempt by him to return to Lebanon. Bakri fled from the UK in the wake of the 5 July 2005 suicide bombings on the London Underground and re-surfaced in Lebanon Bakri's son is said to have left Tripoli in Lebanon to join ISIS over a year ago. An picture of him said to have been taken in Syria has been circulating on social media accounts. His father is currently in Roumieh prison after being convicted of supporting terrorism following his arrest in a raid by security forces in April 2014. Yesterday, he was sentenced to serve an additional six years in prison with hard labour Sucks to be you....and your family

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Britain

Fanatic Who Trained 7/7 Bomber Set Up Islamic Primary School In Britain

2014-03-31

A terror suspect who trained the ringleader of the 7/7 terrorist bombings in London has been allowed to set up an Islamic primary school, teaching children as young as three, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. As a member of a banned extremist group, Sajeel Shahid, 38, called for violence against British troops and ran a training camp in Pakistan where known terrorists learned how to make bombs and fire rocket- propelled grenades. One of his 'graduates' was Mohammed Siddique Khan, who led the gang of four suicide bombers on the deadliest terrorist attack ever committed in Britain, killing 52 people on the London Underground and a bus on July 7, 2005. Shahid also allegedly trained four convicted terrorists who tried to blow up the Bluewater Shopping Centre in Kent and London's Ministry of Sound nightclub in a foiled plot. The jihadist -- who was raised in Britain but spent years in Pakistan after the 9/11 attacks -- was detained for three months in 2005 by the Pakistani security forces over his suspected links to Al Qaeda. He had been running the Pakistan branch of the banned British extremist group Al-Muhajiroun. After his detention he was expelled from the country. So even though he repudiates everything Britain stands for, the Brits took him back after the Paks said he was too crazy for them... But despite being known to British security services, on his return to the UK he was given permission to set up an independent primary school, where he taught lessons and employed his brother -- who also has a history of extremism -- as head of IT. The Department for Education said last night it was 'urgently' looking into Shahid's case, which critics said exposed the lack of checks on potentially dangerous individuals who set up schools in the UK. They're now looking into after letting him back into the country in 2005? Lord Carlile, the Government's former adviser on counter-terrorism, said: 'It is a matter of real concern that somebody should be able to slip through the net and run a school where there has been substantial concern about his activities in the past. 'People who have been involved in terrorist activity anywhere in the world should not be allowed to run schools, unless there is the clearest evidence they have rejected the views that made them turn towards terrorism.' Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Committee which is investigating terrorism, including extremism in schools, said: 'It's extremely worrying a person with such a history, which should be of concern to the relevant authorities, should be in such a position. The DfE needs to look into this urgently.' How about expelling the man to Mauritania? Documents seen by The Mail on Sunday show Shahid was registered as director and proprietor of the Ad-Deen Primary School in Ilford, Essex, which teaches 54 pupils aged three to 11. He is thought to have founded the Â2,000-a-year school in 2009, where, using the pseudonym Abu Ibrahim, he taught children to recite the Koran. He was able to operate his school for five years, despite the DfE launching a Due Diligence and Counter-Extremism Unit in 2010 to prevent individuals with a history of extremist beliefs running schools. A cursory internet check on Shahid reveals his past as a terror suspect, as he even has a profile on Wikipedia stating his involvement with Al-Muhajiroun, the group founded by Omar Bakri Mohammed. In 2001, Bakri sent Shahid and his elder brother Adeel, 39, also a member of Al-Muhajiroun, to Pakistan to set up a branch of the group there. In December 2001, Shahid gave an interview to a British newspaper. He said: 'We say the Pakistan army, navy and air-force should be fighting US and British forces which are killing our Islamic brothers and sisters in Afghanistan. We see the US and British governments as the biggest terrorists in the world.' He also called on Muslims to rise up and 'throw out their rulers implementing kufr [infidel] laws to be replaced by the Islamic law and order,' adding, 'jihad was the only solution for Muslim lands under occupation.' More of Shahid's history at the link.

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Lebanon cleric sentenced to life

2010-11-13

[Al Jazeera] A Lebanese military court has convicted a Mohammedan holy man of terrorism charges and sentenced him in absentia to life in prison. Omar Bakri Mohammed was among 54 people sentenced on Friday as part of ongoing trials against fighters who were allegedly involved in deadly festivities with the Lebanese army in 2007. Bakri was convicted of "belonging to an gang with the aim of carrying out terrorist acts and plotting to kill Lebanese soldiers". The holy man, who holds Syrian and Lebanese citizenship, lived in Britain for 20 years where he headed the now-disbanded group al-Muhajiroun [The Emigrants]. Bakri left Britain for Leb in 2005 and the British government barred him from returning. In absentia Judicial officials said Bakri was sentenced to life because of his failure to show up in court for his trial. Bakri, who lives in the northern Lebanese town of Tripoli, a hotbed of Sunni fundamentalists, said he was "shocked'' to learn of the verdict through his lawyer on Friday. "I never received any summons for a trial, or any arrest warrant," he said, adding that the charges were "lies and fabrications". Bakri's lawyer informed him he had 15 days to appeal the ruling, but the holy man refuses to hand himself in. It was not immediately clear why authorities have not jugged Bakri, who appears regularly on television and does not live in hiding. Security officials declined to comment. Bakri became a focus of British attention after he said he would not inform the police if he knew Mohammedans were planning attacks such as the July 7, 2005 bombings in London that killed 56 people. The holy man, who also has been criticised in Britain for his fiery sermons, said his Mohammedan faith prevented him from reporting fellow Mohammedans to the British police. Britain later said it had barred Bakri from returning to that country because his presence was not "conducive to public good". Bakri says he is now "retired" and spends his time preaching and teaching students and followers in Europe, Australia and Canada. He appears often on local Lebanese TV stations as a guest on political talk shows, including an appearance last week. "Everyone knows my address, I go on TV and army intelligence interrogate me after each TV appearance. Now all of a sudden Omar Bakri is a runaway who failed to appear in court. Why?" he asked. In addition to Bakri, 53 other people - 20 of them in absentia -- received sentences ranging from one year to life imprisonment.

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Radical Muslim cleric sentenced to life

2010-11-12

A radical Muslim cleric who preached hatred of the West from his base in north London for 20 years has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Lebanon. Omar Bakri Mohammed, known as the "Tottenham Ayatollah", was on the run after a court in Beirut found him guilty of funding al-Qaeda and starting a militant group to weaken the Lebanese government. Bakri, who now lives in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, was one of 54 people convicted in the latest of a series of trials against suspected militants who fought clashes with the Lebanese army in 2007. The Syrian-born preacher became an irritant to the British government after he hailed the September 11, 2001 terrorists as the "magnificent 19" and told the British public it was responsible for the attacks on tube stations in London four years later.

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India-Pakistan

Irishman wants to kill for Islam

2009-11-16

An Irish jihadist living in Pakistan's Swat valley says he is preparing to wage war against British and allied troops in Afghanistan. Khalid Kelly, a former altar boy from the Liberties area of Dublin who used to be known as Terry, told The Sunday Times he is undergoing weapons training in Pakistan's mountainous tribal region in order to fight jihad against the enemies of Islam. His dream is to face a British soldier in combat, although he would "settle" for an American, he said. "I'm already on the path to jihad. I've already picked up a gun and done target practice to make myself familiar with weapons. The other day I learnt how to use an M-16 [rifle] in five hours," he said. "Next week, inshallah, I could be in Afghanistan fighting a British soldier." Asked how he would feel about his own three-year-old son becoming a suicide bomber he replied: "I hope he goes to jannah [heaven] before marriageable age." His son, named Osama after Kelly's role model, lives in Britain with his Pakistani mother and two younger brothers. His father reckons Osama will be efficient with weapons by the age of ten. Kelly says he learnt map-reading in the Scottish mountains, terrain similar to Afghanistan, although he admits he is currently out of shape. He justifies his intentions because of the West's actions against Muslims. "Why is it such a big deal that I want to do this? Have I not got the right to do the same thing as a guy going into an army recruitment centre?" he said. "As long as we have no security, you will have no security. We'll kill and bomb you as you have killed and bombed our lands." Ireland is also a legitimate target, according to Kelly. "Ireland has a US embassy so it is open to attack," he stated. Kelly, 42, is an unconventional jihadist. Having grown up a staunch Catholic and trained as a nurse, he moved to Saudi Arabia in 1996 to work at the King Faisal hospital on a tax-free salary. In 2000 he was introduced to radical Islam by an Afghan when he was serving time in the Al-Ha'ir prison in Riyadh for bootlegging. "I was living a cushy Western lifestyle, in a three-storey house with a swimming pool. I was your average Western racist," he said of his time before conversion. "Now I'm living the dream, but the price of paradise does not come cheap. I am getting up at 5am to pray. I travel a lot and I'm experiencing hardship." Kelly moved to the UK in 2002 where he joined Al-Muhajaroun, the now disbanded hardline Islamic organisation, and an associate of radical clerics Omar Bakri Mohammed and Anjem Choudary. He achieved notoriety in 2007 when he declared the London bombings of 7 July a "happy day". "If I had had the opportunity, I would have been on those tube trains. But my time in London was to give the call," he said. Kelly also "gave the call" in Ireland, where he returned frequently in a bid to lure young Muslims with his jihadist teachings. He warned that Ireland was putting itself in the line of fire by allowing US warplanes to land at Shannon airport. Kelly now sees his time in the West as mental preparation for jihad, claiming he spent a lot of time on the internet learning how to make bombs. He left the UK in 2008 after some friends were arrested for extremist behaviour during a protest about the Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed. After a period underground, Kelly has now re-emerged in Pakistan's Swat valley, where the army recently drove out the Taliban in a three-month military operation. He travels frequently to Rawalpindi, a garrison city next to the nation's capital Islamabad, to meet contacts and spread his radical jihadist message. In a meeting in one of the city's parks last month he told The Sunday Times that he had a "divine calling" to kill. "I would feel good because you are killing for God. I have practised enough mentally to know that when my time comes I'll be ready. I pray every night for bravery," he said. Kelly said he moved to Pakistan to join the "best of the best" in the jihadist struggle and to work towards replacing the civilian government with an Islamic one. As Islamabad vows to take on Islamic militants, Kelly harbours a dark hope that Pakistan will become like Iraq with "beheadings and kidnappings". His face brightens at the mention of suicide bombings and shootings that have devastated hundreds of Pakistani families since the army launched its recent offensive against Taliban and Al Qaeda militants in the tribal belt of Waziristan. He is also unapologetic about his desire to fund, encourage and take part in terrorism. "I always believe Islam is terrorism. We are told to terrorise the enemies of Islam," he said. "The world will become a dangerous place. Everybody had better start embracing Islam or people will start flying planes into buildings again."

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Britain

‘British Queen will be forced to wear burkha’

2009-11-01

Radical Muslims, who are seeking to introduce Sharia laws in the UK, have said the British Queen will be forced to wear a burkha and cover up in public, according to a media report. Abu Rumaysah, spokesman for pro-Sharia campaigners Islam4UK, said the Queen would be forced to cover up in public from head to foot, with only her eyes visible. "If the Queen decides to go outside she is to cover herself like every other woman," Amjem Choudary, an extremist Islamist leader, was quoted as saying by the Daily Express. Choudary, the right-hand man of exiled Islamist cleric Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed, earlier demanded the royal palace be renamed Buckingham Masjid, and the Mall, which approaches the palace, would become Masjid Road. Choudary, who is leading the campaigning to introduce Sharia courts in the UK, claimed to have uncovered historical evidence which challenges the right of Queen Elizabeth II to live at the royal palace. "We find ourselves in the year 2009, waiting for Rome to fall, waiting for the White House to fall and indeed waiting for Buckingham Palace to fall," he was quoted as saying by the British tabloid. Choudary said once the Sharia was established the Queen’s official residence in London would have a dome fitted and a tannoy system to call followers to prayer. The Islam4UK movement is made up of leading members of the banned radical al-Muhajiroun group which was once led by Choudary. Around 15 per cent of people convicted in the UK of terrorism-related offences in the last decade were either members of the group or had links to it, the report claimed.

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Britain

British mosque has been recruiting ground for 20 years

2009-09-09

A mosque frequented by the leader of the airline plot terrorist cell has been a recruiting ground for extremists for more than 20 years. The Queen's Road mosque in Walthamstow, northeast London, where Abdulla Ahmed Ali met his associates, is controlled by the ultraorthodox Tablighi Jamaat. Intelligence services around the world believe that Tablighi's fundamentalism makes some of its followers easy prey for terrorist recruiters. Tablighi Jamaat, if you've been asleep since 2001, is a Pak proselytizing organization that recruits impressionable yoots for al-Qaeda and similar worthy causes. Two decades ago the same mosque was hosting talks by followers of Omar Bakri Mohammed, one of the first Islamic clerics in Britain to preach jihad. The learned Omar was the founder of al-Muhajiroun, recall, which split off from Hizb-ut-Tahrir because they weren't radical enough. Hizbutt is another jihad recruiting and propagandizing organization. The disclosure of the mosque's history indicates that, despite the focus on the Pakistan-based terrorist threat, the roots of Islamist radicalisation are deeply embedded in Britain. The men involved in the fertiliser bomb plot of 2004, the July 7 and July 21 bombings of 2005 and the airline plot were all radicalised in Britain. Their initial contacts with the al-Qaeda network were through fundraisers and recruiters in Britain and Rashid Rauf, who has been identified by security sources as a key link man in Pakistan, was from Birmingham. Verily, the links between Britain and Ye Olde Countrie are tight. The fellows are born and bred in Land of Hope and Glory, but they speak Urdu or Pashto and they travel to Lahore for religious education and to marry their first cousins. Ed Husain, of the Quilliam Foundation, an anti-extremist think-tank, said the first contact with radicals for many young Muslims was at British colleges and universities. "In the 1990s it was Arab political refugees, not Pakistanis, that helped radicalise many British Muslims," he said. "Pakistani militants provide training for would-be violent Islamists. But they go out radicalised and willing -- it is folly to think that visits to Pakistan are points of first contact with extremism." Why's it folly? They maintain Pak cultural islands and the itinerant Arabs have about the same effect in Britain they have in Pakistain: they're members of the Islamic Master Race. Ali, who will be sentenced for the airline plot next week, was heavily influenced by a suspected al-Qaeda facilitator who is known to the authorities. That man, who has not been arrested and lives freely in East London, claims that he has no links to terrorism and is a Tablighi missionary. But long before the Walthamstow mosque came under Tablighi influence, it hosted "study circles" led by Bakri Mohammed's followers. I attended one of those meetings as a reporter in August 1989 and heard young men decry the evils of drink, discos and "free intermingling of the sexes". They'll address the free intermingling of the races later... One called Kysar, then aged 19, told me: "Islam isn't a religion where you can only adopt part of it. You have to adopt the whole Islamic viewpoint on society. There can be no compromise with the divine system revealed to us." "If you're not part of the problem you're part of the solution!" or something along those lines. That the airline bomb plot was based in Walthamstow has shocked residents of this northeast London suburb. They're shocked! Shocked! The area prides itself on having a mixed and well-integrated community and, unlike in many areas of East London, there are no ghettos. Sounds like a multicultural herd of sheep, dunnit? But the plot has revealed that Islamist extremism is deeply rooted in elements of the large Muslim population. Many of the people whom Ali tried to recruit to his terrorist cell were his Walthamstow school friends and his bomb factory was an upstairs flat in the busy Forest Road. In the flat, Ali -- who had lived almost all his life in Walthamstow -- experimented with bottle bombs and liquid explosives and recorded martyrdom videos. Bombmaking components were disposed of in the rubbish bins across the road in Lloyd Park, once the garden of the philanthropist William Morris. Meanwhile the multicultural sheep were placidly grazing, congratulating themselves on their placidity... Afzal Akram, the local councillor whose brief includes "community cohesion", insisted that Queen's Road mosque itself was not part of the problem. "No, no! Certainly not! Why, I go there myself!" "It's got nothing to do with the imams or the mosque -- some of my friends and family pray there, I've been there myself," he said. "Sometimes I even give the sermons!" "None of the mosques here have been used to preach extremism. Individuals may have met at particular mosques and individuals may live within a stone's throw of the mosque. But I wouldn't put two and two together." "You might come out with four, and that wouldn't be a good thing." Mr Akram says that extremism locally is little more than youngsters "mouthing off" and "spouting conspiracy theories". But the Government is spending £90,000 in the borough to teach "leadership" to young Muslims. That way they'll be able to organize their friends and families into Stürm brigades. The Queen's Road mosque declined to comment, despite approaches made through the Muslim Council of Britain. However, two years ago Tablighi Jamaat set up a website, to publicise its plans for a giant mosque next to the Olympic site, on which it said: "We do not teach an extremist line, but we clearly can't speak for every single one of those who have ever attended our mosques -- there are several thousand people at our weekly gatherings." They added: "We utterly refute any links to terrorism or terrorists." "Oh, yasss! We're ever so multicultural! Here! Feel my fleece! Want some grass?" One community leader, who is involved in interfaith work in Walthamstow, said the Muslim community did not recognise that extremism was a problem. "I don't want to add fuel to the fire, but the problem is within the Muslim community and its attitude to the extremists," he said. "You speak to the community elders and they smile and say, 'It's not a big problem, if we ignore them they'll go away'. That seems a dangerous attitude to me and the wrong one to take."

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"The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam" Conference in Chicago

2009-07-17

Go to site for some interesting links for items mentioned in this article Islamic Supremacist Group Holds First U.S. Conference A group committed to establishing an international Islamic empire and reportedly linked to Al Qaeda is stepping up its Western recruitment efforts by holding its first official conference in the U.S. Hizb ut-Tahrir is a global Sunni network with reported ties to confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Al Qaeda in Iraq's onetime leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. It has operated discreetly in the U.S. for decades. Now, it is coming out of the shadows and openly hosting a July 19 conference entitled, "The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam," at a posh Hilton hotel in a suburb of Chicago. Hizb ut-Tahrir insists that it does not engage in terrorism, and it is not recognized by the State Department as a known terror group. But some terrorism experts say it may be even more dangerous than many groups that are on the terror list. "Hizb ut-Tahrir is one of the oldest, largest indoctrinating organizations for the ideology known as jihadism," Walid Phares, director of the Future of Terrorism Project at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told FOXNews.com. Phares said that Hizb ut-Tahrir, rather than training members to carry out terrorist acts like Al Qaeda, focuses instead on indoctrinating youths between ages of 9 and 18 to absorb the ideology that calls for the formation of an empire -- or "khilafah" -- that will rule according to Islamic law and condones any means to achieve it, including militant jihad. Hizb ut-Tahrir often says that its indoctrination "prepares the infantry" that groups like Al Qaeda take into battle, Phares said. "It's like a middle school that prepares them to be recruited by the high school, which is Al Qaeda," he said. "One would compare them to Hitler youth. ... It's an extremely dangerous organization." Phares said Hizb ut-Tahrir has strongholds in Western countries, including Britain, France and Spain, and clearly is looking to strengthen its base in the U.S. "The aim of this conference is to recruit within the Muslim community in America," he said. "The Middle East governments go after them, but in the U.S. they are protected, so having a base here is going to help their cells around the world." Representatives of Hizb ut-Tahrir declined to comment when contacted by FOXNews.com. Oren Segal, director of Islamic Affairs for the Anti-Defamation League, said the conference is cause for concern. "While they're not, for the most part, engaging in violent activities, and they publicly say that they're against violence, there have been examples around the world where people who have spun off of this group have engaged in violent activity," Segal told FOXNews.com. "That's why they're banned in several Arab and Central Asian countries, as well as Germany and Russia." Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is one of the group's most famous alumni, New Statesman journalist Shiv Malik reported, citing intelligence sources. In addition to plotting the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, he also is implicated in the World Trade Center bombing of 1993, the Bali nightclub bombings and the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Malik's report, the public policy institute the Nixon Center and the counter-extremism think tank the Quilliam Foundation agree that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq until he was killed in June 2006, also was once a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir. They say other former members include Asif Muhammad Hanif, a British man who blew himself up outside a bar in Tel Aviv, killing four people (including himself) and wounding more than 50; and Omar Bakri Mohammed, a radical cleric currently banned from Britain who praised the 9/11 attacks, raised funds for Hezbollah and Hamas and called for attacks on the Dublin airport because U.S. troops transfered there on their way to Iraq. Segal said Hizb ut-Tahrir is becoming more active online in the U.S. -- particularly on social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace -- and now it may be able to add a significant number of Americans to its ranks. But former member Ishtiaq Hussain said Hizb ut-Tahrir is repackaging itself as a moderate organization as a tactic, while in reality it is "extremist." "They don't recognize countries like Israel, for example; they don't believe Israel should exist," Hussain, now a trainer for the Quilliam Foundation, told FOXNews.com. "Some of their leaders have denied the Holocaust, and they believe homosexuals should be thrown off the highest building. ... It's actually a very dangerous group." Hizb ut-Tahrir itself has also published writings that seem to contradict its tenet of non-violence. In his book, "How the Khilafah Was Destroyed," Sheikh Abdul Qadeem Zalloom, the former global leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir, says anyone who rules by a non-Islamic system should "either retract or be killed ... even if this led to several years of fighting and even if it led to the killing of millions of Muslims and to the martyrdom of millions of believers." Hizb ut-Tahrir's official ruling on the permissibility of hijacking planes says, "If the plane belongs to a country at war with Muslims, And one of the organization's more recent leaflets, published in March, calls for the declaration of "a state of war against America." But, despite these threats and calls to action, Hizb ut-Tahrir remains off the State Department's terror watch list, and it is free to host the Khilafah Conference and any other event like it. "In other parts of the world where they're really very active, they've drawn tens of thousands of people to some of their events," Segal said."It'll be interesting to see to what degree they'll be welcomed here."

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Britain

Row after Islam cleric converts schoolboy on Birmingham street

2009-06-28

A YOUNG schoolboy was "converted" to Islam on the streets of Birmingham by a radical Muslim preacher, the Sunday Mercury can reveal. The bewildered-looking 11 year-old, who gives his name as Sean, was filmed repeating Arabic chants and swearing allegiance to Allan™. The white schoolboy is prompted throughout by controversial cleric Anjem Choudary, a follower of exiled hate-preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed. The incident was filmed during a demonstration by Choudary's Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jama'ah group in Birmingham city centre earlier this month. Choudary, 42, was one of the masterminds behind sick protests at the homecoming parade of heroic British soldiers in Luton back in March. He praised protesters who branded British troops "murderers" and later appeared at a press conference flanked by thugs who took part in the demo. When contacted by the Sunday Mercury, Choudary defended the young boy's "reversion" to Islam -- but admitted his parents were not with him and were not consulted. "The child was genuinely interested in Islam," he said. "The boy told us he wanted to become a Muslim and, of course, some people are intellectually more mature than they are physically. I don't see there is any harm in this. He was with his friends, but I didn't see if his parents were there. There were a lot of people at the event.'' A message on Choudary's website offers advice for those who become Muslim at his Islamic Roadshow. "Conversion packs are already provided to those who revert to Islam in the Islamic Roadshows," it says. "They include a booklet on 'Everything a Muslim must know' and a free DVD with a brief guide on how to pray in Islam." Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jama'ah, is a splinter group of the controversial Al-Muhajiroun sect. Last month we revealed that the sect, founded by exiled Bakri, is planning to reform. Al-Muhajiroun, which has recruited hundreds of fanatics in the Midlands, fell apart in 2004 just months before Bakri was stopped from coming back to the UK under terror laws. He has now set his sights set on a return for the extremist group, though the Home Office is understood to be closely monitoring its activities. The ranting cleric was investigated by Scotland Yard back in 2000 after telling the Sunday Mercury that then Prime Minister Tony Blair was a "Legitimate™ target" for assassination. Since his exclusion from Britain, right-hand man Anjem Choudary has run Ahlus Sunah wal Jama'ah and the Islam For The UK website. Choudary was secretly filmed by the Sunday Mercury at a youth centre in Alum Rock, Birmingham, last February, calling for strict Sharia™ law to be introduced in the city.

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Britain

Make Southall the UK capital

2009-01-05

FIREBRAND mullah Anjem Choudary has made his most-bonkers rant yet -- demanding Southall be named our capital. He said the west London suburb should be the centre of power "when Islam takes over the UK". "He sounds completely barmy." The lawyer, who was once the head of radical Muslim group al-Muhajiroun, made the call at a meeting of his supporters. They cheered his every word as he called for Muslims to "rise up" and seize power in Britain. But even they fell silent when he called for rundown Southall -- an Asian-dominated area -- to become the nation's capital. Choudary, 41, said: "We will rise up. We will rise up, my dear Mus­lims. One day we will have the Sharia here. And who knows, may­be even Southall can be the capital of the Islam­ic state when we conquer it." Almost 20 per cent of locals in Southall are Muslims, while more than 75 per cent are Asian, compared with around 12 per cent classifying themselves as white. It is also home to the Glassy Junction pub, the first bar in the UK to accept rupees. But last night locals dismissed Choudary's views. Retired postal worker Jim Allen, 71, said: "I like the place, but I wouldn't make it a capital in a million years." Helen Jamison, 41, added: "He sounds completely barmy." Choudary has close links to Omar Bakri Mohammed, the 50-year-old preacher banned from the UK. Like many capitals, Southall does have its claims to fame. Washington DC has the White House while Southall has White Street gasworks tower. Paris has nine restaurants with three Michelin stars but Southall has Britain's first Halal McDonald's.

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Banned cleric Bakri still lectures British followers online

2008-12-13

A militant Muslim cleric banned from living in this country is continuing to lecture to his followers in the UK twice a day. Omar Bakri Mohammed has been delivering sermons on the internet chat room PalTalk from his home in Lebanon, where he is exiled. Between 30 and 50 users log on every morning and evening to listen to what is usually a 30 minute speech. He then opens the discussion board up for questions, which he answers directly. While monitoring this chat room Sky News heard Bakri tell his followers that no Muslim should join the Pakistan Army, but rather should support the Mujahideen - Muslims fighting a jihad, or Holy war. He also told them it was "haraam" (or prohibited) to wish work colleagues "Merry Christmas". In other recent sermons Bakri called on his followers to "disobey British law" and to "fight and die for islam", in order to step up an Islamic state in the UK. Syrian-born Bakri was banned from re-entering the UK in 2005, after his presence was deemed by the Government not to be "conducive to the public good". Authorities believe the 50-year-old founder of the now-outlawed radical group al-Muhajiroun is a direct threat to national security. His use of the internet to continue to address his British followers has raised questions over the relevance of UK anti-terror legislation. Logging on to the chat room, SkyNews asked Bakri if addressing his followers in the UK via the internet made a mockery of current terror legislation? "The terror legislation of the British Government, of any government, is irrelevant, unimportant, insignificant for me", he said. "They deport me, or they they prevent me from returning back to Britain, or prevent people entering the UK, they think that [is] going to make them stop communicating? If they stop the internet we will communicate by phone. Will they stop every call in the world?" Bakri also gives regular speeches to gatherings in London via video link or over the phone. Two weeks ago he spoke to around 60 followers at a meeting in a restaurant in Southall, West London. The gathering had been due to take place at a council run building in Southall, but the local authority was tipped off that he was to address the meeting and decided to withdraw permission to use the building. Police were posted outside, looking for those handing out leaflets, but despite the last minute change, organisers were quickly able to rearrange the meeting at the alternative venue. A previous event in a council-run venue in Tower Hamlets, East London, had gone ahead without intervention from the local authority. However, because Bakri now lives abroad, he is free to say almost anything he likes without fear of prosecution here. Intelligence analyst Crispin Black warned that this is a dangerous scenario: "It's always been difficult, but it was previously less difficult because he was here, and they could count the number of people at his meetings and find out who they were. But now this is growing exponentially, it's much more difficult for the authorities to keep track of." At the latest meeting Anjem Choudary, a London-based lawyer who is an organiser and spokesman for Bakri, said the Government could not stifle the voice of Muslims. Mr Choudary said: "He is now accessible every morning on chat rooms and in the evening, as well as addressing people at conferences, seminars and lectures. The authorities will try their best to try to silence his voice, however, need is the mother of all creativity." A Home Office spokesman said the gatherings must still remain within the law - and if speakers crossed the line between free speech and incitement, the organisers risked being prosecuted.

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