Friday - August 12, 2005

Asshat Of The Day, Part IV

The saga of Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed is now in its sixth day and this radical MOOS-LIM asshat is getting deeper and deeper in Ye Olde Shiite-Hole. The British preacher of radical MOOS-LIM hatred who fled Britain for Lebanon, tried to bluff the British foreign office, was rebuffed and ordered to return has now just about entered the final phase. Britain has now officially banned him from entering the UK and he is under arrest in Lebanon ....

(BBC)—Radical Islamic preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed has been excluded from the UK. The Home Office said Home Secretary Charles Clarke used existing powers to exclude Mr Mohammed as his presence was “not conducive to the public good”. The cleric is being held by the Lebanese authorities in Beirut, it is believed at the request of Syria.

He was seized after a TV interview in which he said he would not return to Britain as a persona non grata, only as a visitor. The preacher left the UK six days ago on what he described as a holiday to see his mother in Beirut. The self-styled “sheikh” ran the radical al-Muhajiroun group from Tottenham, north London, until it was disbanded last year. He is famous for praising the 9/11 hijackers as the “magnificent 19”.

A Home Office spokesman said the decision to bar Mr Mohammed would not affect his family. He has seven children who were born in Britain. They would continue to receive their State benefits, he said, although those paid to the cleric would cease. Since the 1980s Mr Mohammed had had indefinite leave to remain in the UK after gaining political asylum. He is thought to have dual Syrian and Lebanese nationality.

Regarding his arrest in Beirut, a Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman said there was an official request from the Syrian authorities “to surrender him to the security forces in Syria.” “They say he is a Syrian and has been convicted in Syria for many crimes, and that they need him for those crimes.”

The spokesman said he believed the activities for which Syria wished to see Mr Mohammed extradited were not terrorism-related but to do with “past events in Syria in the 1980s”.

The cleric’s spokesman, Anjem Choudray, described the UK move as “completely outrageous” and a “failure” of the principle of free speech. “He has been a great asset for the Muslim community here. “It is going to be a great loss for the British public and the Muslim community, I believe, and I think that this is indicative of the oppressive nature of the Blair regime.”

But Inayat Bunglawala, from the Muslim Council of Britain, said: “Omar Bakri is unlikely to be missed by the vast majority of British Muslims. “He is someone who for 20 years was given shelter by this country and he has spent almost all that time vilifying this country and its values. “With his often very offensive remarks he has contributed towards the demonisation of British Muslims.”

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/12/2005 at 05:41 AM   
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