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Al-Muhajiroun issues fatwa against Musharraf | |
2001-09-18 | |
A hardline British-based Muslim leader has said that his group has issued a death threat against Pakistan's president for backing the United States following the attacks on New York and Washington. Sheikh Omar Bakhri Mohammed said his Al-Muhajiroun organisation had issued a fatwa, or religious edict, threatening Pakistan's military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, whose backing for the United States has angered Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement.
British Foreign Office minister Peter Hain said authorities would study Bakhri's comments to see whether they contravened Britain's recently strengthened laws against terrorism. | |
Posted by:Fred Pruitt |