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Beirut too unsafe for Bakri's clan
Funny you should mention Omar...
Extremist Islamic firebrand Omar Bakri forced to flee Britain after calling for his adoptive country to be attacked claimed his new bolthole was too dangerous for his family to join him.
...and not nearly as lucrative.
The 'Tottenham Ayatollah' fled Britain two years ago to Beirut after praising the 7/7 suicide bombers and when police were considering charging him with incitement to treason. He was then banned from returning to the UK. Then when anti-terror police raided the family home in March last year, he boasted his wife Hanan and their six children would join him in exile saying "We are even taking our cat and we are going to leave you English dogs."
Spoken like a true Brave Jihadi Pussy poster boy that you are...
However when Israel bombed southern Lebanon over three weeks last year, the Syrian-born preacher of hate pleaded to be allowed to join his family in their £350,000 housing association home in Edmonton, north London.
Again, the Brave Jihadi Pussy thing. I wonder if they have a manual?
But now, the 47-year-old dismissed any plans to return to London, saying: "You must be joking." Speaking from his bolthole in Lebanon, Sheikh Omar bin Bakri bin Mohammed said his new adopted home was now too dangerous and his family were safer living off benefits in London.
...and how will I survive without my cut of that action? Stupid infidel!!
He said: "They need to come here but it's not safe for them to be here. They are living in London. The situation here is not healthy at all. There are tensions between different groups in Beirut and it's not safe. There are people fighting out on the streets. I don't have a problem with anybody here but there is government against government conflict. When they (my family) were here recently there were people fighting in the place where they were staying."
You mean...it's not an Islamic Paradise?
The firebrand, who spent 20 years in Britain before being exiled, said his family may be able to join him in the Middle East if British police would hand back £13,000 taken from his son Abdul Rahman Fostok at Heathrow last October. He said: "If the British police would give it back I would be able to rent a safe place for them to live."
That's okay. We'll hold onto it for awhile. Just to piss you off...
The money was seized under the Proceeds of Crime Act as detectives probed where the cash came from, but Omar Bakri claimed it was a gift from his son and he was waiting for police to give it back. He Said: "My son came with a gift for me. If they don't pay they are just taking money that doesn't belong to them."
Kinda like the welfare benefits, you know?
And he defended his family's right to continue living in the subsidised home and said: "They are entitled to do that."
Terrible if there was a fire there...or something.
However the cleric refused to say whether he made comments calling for a terror attack just months before the 7/7 bombings.
Recently unearthed recordings showed Omar Bakri calling for an attack similar to the Madrid bombing. He also seen ranting that British Muslims would be beheaded if they joined the army. When quizzed if he made the comments Bakri replied: "I can't remember what I said yesterday. I think all my tapes and all my CDs are in the public arena. I am not going to give you a yes or no answer."
My memory. It not so good any more, you see...
He encouraged police to investigate the tapes but added "I've got immunity."
He immune to a bullet?
Posted by: tu3031 2007-02-27
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=181713