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Any UK Moslem Who Co-Operates With UK Authorities Against Other Moslems Is an Apostate
Muslims cannot co-operate with local authorities against other members of the faith, the outspoken leader of an Islamic group has said. Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad was reacting to a call from the Muslim Council of Britain for the community to play its part in the fight against terrorism, following the anti-terrorism raids earlier this week in which eight men were arrested. ... Sheikh Omar told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: "Muslims have a unique way of life. Co-operating with the authorities against any other Muslims, that is an act of apostasy in Islam.
"We can do anything we want. Nobody can tell us what to do except us, and we won't. We're different from everybody because we belong to the Master Religion."
"Having said that, Muslims in Britain have the right to defend themselves, but without the use of violence. They can gather together, speak with the imams. The imams themselves should lecture the Muslim community, not the Muslim Council of Britain who are all of them a bunch of seculars." Sheikh Omar complained that the media was "demonising" the Muslim community in Britain, and that a "cycle of violence" has been created by both terrorists and the British and American response. ....
Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-04-01
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