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| Undercover with Al-Muhajiroun |
| 2005-08-07 |
| Edited for Length The undercover reporter, who has a Muslim background, first approached the group as a potential convert in June, three weeks before the first London attack. Posing as a university graduate who was disaffected because he could not find a job, he introduced himself to members of the Saviour Sect who ran a stall handing out leaflets on the Whitechapel Road, east London. The sect and its interchangeable sister organisation, Al-Ghuraaba, were created after Bakri claimed to have closed down his militant extremist group Al-Muhajiroun last October. The sect came to prominence during the general election in April when it launched an intimidatory campaign against fellow Muslims to stop them voting. They were captured on film yelling and attacking members at a meeting of the mainstream Muslim Council of Britain. George Galloway, the Respect party MP for Bethnal Green, east London, claimed that they made death threats against him when they disrupted one of his election campaign meetings, shouting him down as a âfalse prophetâ. At the time Bakri denied any connection to the sect and he has continued â publicly at least â to keep his distance from it. But members openly talked of him as their spiritual leader when our reporter first approached them. They invited the reporter to attend one of their meetings that evening. It was to be the first of many lectures and sermons that he attended. As he entered the entrance hall of the red-brick YMCA building in Beckton he was met initially with suspicion. Abdul Muhid, one of the sectâs leaders, questioned him closely. Within minutes Muhid, 22, was explaining that most new recruits were former heroin addicts who had found salvation. Another man, Nasser, in his early twenties with a wispy henna-speckled beard, implored our reporter to âunlearnâ the brand of Islam that he had been taught as a child and to adopt a new approach. It was important to be unemployed, Nasser said, as taking a job would contribute to the kuffar system. He said he was receiving a jobseekerâs allowance and justified this by saying the prophet Muhammad also lived off the state and attacked it at the same time. âAll money belongs to Allah anyway,â he said. There were other ways to opt out. âAll the brothers drive without insurance,â Nasser said proudly. The following afternoon the reporter witnessed an Asian man being beaten by members of the Saviour Sect for âinsultingâ their version of Islam. The victim had struck up an argument with one of the group at the market stall. When he threw a leaflet to the ground he was punched in the face and a fight started. Up to seven members of the sect jumped on the man and began kicking him as he lay on the floor. A late intervention by one of the other stallholders gave him the opportunity to escape â his face swollen and bleeding. Later that day it emerged that the man who had been assaulted had been a member of the moderate Young Muslim Organisation and was also a supporter of Gallowayâs Respect party. One of the sect told the reporter that âthe brothersâ needed to calm down and stop attracting attention to themselves in public. âThey should have taken him round the corner and beaten him there,â he said... ON July 3, Sheikh Omar Brooks of Al-Ghuraaba addressed the group at its Saturday night lecture. The 30-year-old, who comes from a Caribbean background and used to work as an electrician, converted to Islam after coming under Bakriâs spell. He claimed that he had had âmilitary trainingâ in Pakistan. Occasionally sipping a can of Fanta and gesticulating wildly, he declared: âI am a terrorist. As a Muslim, of course I am a terrorist.â It was not just our reporterâs group who were present. Schoolchildren in T-shirts bearing the words âmujaheddinâ and âwarriors of Allahâ listened intently as Brooks said he did not wish to die âlike an old womanâ in bed. âI want to be blown into pieces,â he declared, âwith my hands in one place and my feet in another.â He told the audience that it was a Muslimâs duty to stay apart from the rest of society: âNever mix with them. Never let your children play with their children.â He added: âThis hall is like our fortress against the kuffar and the so-called Muslims like the McB (the Muslim Council of Britain).â Warming to his theme, he said: âThey will build bridges and we will break them; they will build tall buildings and we will bring them down.â The audience rippled with laughter at the obvious reference to September 11, 2001. Nasserâs brother, âMr Islamâ â believed to be Islam Uddin â had started the speeches that evening with his own fiery rhetoric. He told the audience that Islam was a religion of violence and that Muhammad was the âprophet of slaughter, not peaceâ. He said Muslims must not be defeatist as âeven now the brothers in Iraq are sending British, American and Iraqi colluders back in body bagsâ. As his three-year-old son played at his side, he launched into a bitter racist attack. The Jews, he said, were âthe most disgusting and greedy people on earthâ. During the twice-weekly lectures and Friday prayers, men who had struggled to find jobs and, in some cases, had drifted into drug abuse, were told that as true believers they were better than non-Muslims. âThe toe of the Muslim brothers is better than all the kuffar on the earth,â Bakri said in one sermon. âIslam is superior, nothing supersedes it and the Muslim is superior.â Other regular speakers claimed that Islam was constantly under attack in Britain â and that the best form of defence was attack. One, who called himself Zachariah, claimed that the kuffar were trying to âwipe out (Muslims) from the face of the earthâ. He implored the group âto cover the land with our blood through martyrdom, martyrdom, martyrdomâ. Zachariah preached that the non-believers were dispensable: âTheyâre kuffar. Theyâre not people who are innocent. The people who are innocent are the people who are with us or those who are living under the Islamic state.â Another preacher, Abu Yahya, who is also reported to go by the name of Abdul Rahman Saleem, argued that Muslims were constantly being subjected to derogatory names by non-believers in an effort to demotivate them. The solution was aggression. He said: âIt says in the Koran that we must try as much as we can to terrorise the enemy . . . we terrorise those people who terrorise us.â His message to Britain was: âBecause youâre a genuine democracy, all of you are liable.â Rest of the article at the link |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #7 This article is a keeper. I intend to hard-copy distribute this to all the doubters I know. The scumbags in this article truly deserve the title of Islamofascists. Their power-hungry hypocrisy is stunning and perfectly exposed here by their own words and deeds. Keep the light shining on these cock roaches and watch them run. A hearty well done to the undercover reporter who risked his life to tell the facts every Imam does not want us to know. Every Islamofascist group in the UK now has to wonder if every word and deed is being watched. They will wonder which of their comrades is about to betray them for what they really are. Let that eat at them. And it was all done without government action. Chalk one up for the good guys. |
| Posted by: Zpaz 2005-08-07 17:07 |
| #6 What would happen after that is anyones guess... I would hazzard a guess that the "football hooligans" would do a job on the next Muslims they came across. The Muslim situation is the same situation we have with lawyers: Either you (the rest of the lawyers/the rest of the Muslims) control your unruly, arrogant, and out-of-control members, or the rest of the civilized world will impose its regulation upon you. You have one chance. Failure won't be pretty. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2005-08-07 14:24 |
| #5 Dave D. - we're not at the "them or us" phase yet, but articles like this only serve to open our eyes to what the situation really is. My worry is what happens once the football season gets fully underway. There's no way that everyone going into a stadium can be checked for bombs etc and as a lot of these matches are shown live, the propaganda value would be immense. What would happen after that is anyones guess... |
| Posted by: Tony (UK) 2005-08-07 10:48 |
| #4 Memo to all journalists: This is how it is done. Please emulate. The Management. |
| Posted by: N guard 2005-08-07 08:56 |
| #3 This is not news, but this IS reporting in its finest and most courageous. Kudos to this brave reporter: he must have a pair the size of bowling balls. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2005-08-07 07:15 |
| #2 Geoffrey Bindman, a leading human rights solicitor, argued that Brooksâs apparent support for suicide bombings and his call for Muslims to âinstil terror into the heartsâ of non-believers might not be âspecificâ enough to warrant criminal proceedings. Seems pretty clear to me that if Britain is to survive, it's going to have to rid itself of these hateful, parasitic, racist, xenophobic, murderous monsters. If the law doesn't define their behavior as criminal, then change the law so it does. I spent about a hundred bucks on books about Islam to try to understand the nature of the threat we face-- and all I had to do was read this one article. It's either them, or us. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2005-08-07 05:23 |
| #1 Same old "stuff" only missing the Sig heil! |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-08-07 01:49 |