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British imam praises London Tube bombers
A LEADING imam in the mosque where the July 7 bombers worshipped has hailed their terrorist attack on London as a “good” act in a secretly taped conversation with an undercover reporter. Hamid Ali, spiritual leader of the mosque in West Yorkshire, said it had forced people to take notice when peaceful meetings and conferences had no impact. He also praised the bombers as the “children” of Abdullah al-Faisal, a firebrand Muslim cleric, who was convicted of inciting murder and racial hatred in 2003.
They describe all these lunatics as "firebrand" clerics. I guess that's journalistic shorthand for "eye-rolling, spittle-spewing, and incoherent."
Ali revealed that the leader of the London suicide bombers had attended sermons in Yorkshire by al-Faisal and tapes of al-Faisal’s teachings were still circulating within his mosque. Al-Faisal, who has branded non-Muslims as “cockroaches” ripe for extermination, is serving a seven-year prison sentence but is eligible for early release next week.
Yasss... A religion of peaceful exterminators. If you don't regard your enemy as human, then you don't have to feel bad, regardless of what terrible things you do to him. On the other hand, there is that teeny-tiny little danger that your enemy will react by denying your own humanity and do even worse things to you. I guess that's a chance you take if you're a Learned Elder of Islam.
Evidence of continuing extremism and terrorist sympathisers in the bombers’ community has been exposed by a six-week investigation by The Sunday Times. It contrasts with the public statements of condemnation by community leaders — including Ali — in the immediate aftermath of the July 7 attacks.
They figure that's why Allen gave them two sides to their mouths...
The disclosures come as a Sunday Times-YouGov poll today shows that people are gloomy about the prospects of living in peaceful coexistence with Britain’s Muslim community.
Being one of the "cockroaches," I'm pretty gloomy about it, too...
Nearly two-thirds, 63%, think that tensions will rise and only 17% are optimistic about the outlook. By 10 to one, 52% to 5%, people say that recent events have made them less tolerant of other religions.
"Tolerance" isn't always a good thing. We don't "tolerate," in most cases, child molesters hanging around kiddy playgrounds. Rational people tolerate that which is merely different, and they don't tolerate things that're insufferable. Least of all should they tolerate things that threaten their existence. But I'm afraid "tolerance" is often a word for "cowardice." If you tolerate something by that standard, you don't have to do anything, and actually doing something would be ever so unpleasant. Even though your inaction will come back to bite you even harder later, maybe you'll be lucky and it'll bite your children or your grandchildren.
How the July 7 bombers came to be radicalised has proved to be one of the biggest mysteries surrounding their involvement. Even the intelligence services are understood to be in the dark.
If they are, it's a self-imposed darkness. I have a self-imposed darkness every time I close my eyes, too...
In an attempt to shed light on this, an undercover reporter of Bangladeshi origin, posing as a student, lived among the Muslim community in Beeston, Leeds, where three of the bombers — Mohammad Sidique Khan, Shehzad Tanweer and Hasib Mir Hussain — had grown up. The community had closed ranks in the aftermath of the London attacks which killed 56 people, including the bombers. Besieged by the world’s media and fearing reprisals from far-right extremists, many people had refused to talk about the bombers.
Yeah, it's terrible the way far-right extremists have been rampaging through the streets in peaceful Muslim neighborhoods.
However, among those now willing to condone the bombers was Ali, spiritual leader of the Al-Madina Masjid mosque in Tunstall Road, Beeston, where the bombers had worshipped. A week after the attack he had told newspapers that the perpetrators ought to be punished. But in a secretly taped conversation, he said: “What they [the bombers] did was good. They have warned that we are here, we Muslims. People have taken notice that we are here. They died so that people would take notice . . . big meetings and conferences make no change at all. With this, at least people’s ears have pricked up.”
On both sides, though one side seems to have a short attention span.
Describing the bombers as the “children” of “Sheikh” al-Faisal and part of his group of followers, the imam disclosed that al-Faisal had visited the Beeston mosque at least three times to give “lectures”.

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Posted by: lotp 2006-02-12
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=142363