An Islamic preacher told students that it was difficult to argue with Bin Laden's views and said "terrorism works" during a speech at a university in London.
Abdur Raheem Green, a Muslim convert and former public schoolboy, | Not one of the poor and ignorant claimed to populate the ranks of the jihadi organizations, then. |
| Certainly not Harry Paget Flashman either... |
claimed that a "permanent state of war exists between the people of Islam and the people who opposed Islam," while addressing students at University College London (UCL). He gave the speech to the university's Islamic society while Umar Farouq Abdulmutallab, the Detroit bomber, was a student there in 2005.
| Quite some time ago. Still, nice to know. |
Referring to Osama in his 2005 UCL speech, Green, who says he is not an extremist, said that it was difficult to argue with his views. Green said, "His rational [sic] is, we are going to keep on killing your women and children until you stop killing our women and children. How do you argue with that? The other thing is that it seems that terrorism works. We certainly have precedent."
| Did he mean the 9/11 attacks? I'm not sure that in the end that's worked well for the group organizing the attack... |
This disclosure follows a statement by Theresa May, the Home Secretary, in which she said there had been "complacency" by universities about Islamism.
Qasim Rafiq, a spokesman for the Federation of Student Islamic Societies, invited Green to speak at UCL along with two speakers from Hizb ut-Tahrir and another who has supported the Taliban. Since then, Green has been invited to give lectures at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies, Queen Mary and Bart's and at UCL.
| Has the government considered either jailing such speakers for incitement or something, or expelling them from the country for un-British activities? Defenestration works as a concept, too. |
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