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Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal Denies Inciting Murder
Source: Muslim NewsA London-based Muslim Four years? Jumped right on him, didn't they? On Thursday, the jury at London's Old Bailey court was played a tape of Faisal's interview with police officers after his arrest in which he said he was not a racist and only quoted from the Koran. "I'm not inciting them. My students have never harmed anyone. I cannot understand where you are coming from," Faisal said during the interview with Detective Sergeant Ray Durrant. "I'm obtuse. What're you?" Durrant then quoted passages from some of Faisal's tapes and asked him about the content. "So you want to go to Jenna (paradise). It is easy just to kill a Kafer (non believer). You are encouraging people to kill," Durrant asked Faisal. "By you killing the Kafer, you have purchased your ticket to paradise. You are asking for people to put their hands up and volunteer?" Faisal replied that this was "only in a combat situation" and that his message was that people should only kill in self defence. "On the other hand, all situations are combat situations, and a Muslim killing somebody is self-defense by definition, 'cuz nobody gets persecuted like we do..." When asked about a passage in one tape when he said the best way to terrorise a non-believer was to exterminate them, Faisal said again that he was only quoting from the Koran. He said that he preached what he had he learnt at university in Saudi Arabia while studying to become a religious leader and that his words had been taken out of context. Taken out of context by all concerned, it would appear. It's the Soddy education. It makes a man sharp, by golly. And they only make the smartest ones sheikhs... Earlier in the trial, the prosecution said Faisal had encouraged young Muslims to kill Hindus, Jews and Americans, with chemical and nuclear weapons if necessary, through tapes entitled "No Peace with the Jews", "Declaration of War" and "Jihad". With titles like that, you can tell the originate from a devotee of a Religion of Peaceâ¢... In one video tape played earlier, he could be heard saying: "You can use chemical weapons to exterminate the non-believer. If you have cockroaches in your house would you spray them? Yes, with chemicals. If you would spray the cockroach, spray the Hindu." He could also be heard promising young Muslim men that their martyrdom in the Jihad, or Holy War, would be rewarded in paradise with 72 virgins. "Not 70, not 71, but 72 flat-chested 12-year-olds, with zero, that's right, zero mileage..." Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-01-31 |
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