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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Cleric banned from rescue ship
2006-07-21
A HARDLINE Muslim cleric barred from Britain for glorifying violence said today he tried to get on board a British warship to flee Beirut but was turned back. "The answer was, 'unless you have a British passport you are not entitled to come on board'," Omar Bakri told Sky News.

Syrian-born Mr Bakri left Britain for Lebanon last August, saying he was going on holiday, after British Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged to silence Islamists glorifying violence.

Mr Bakri, who had lived in Britain for 20 years, said he had shown his British driving licence and his cancelled British passport. "I know myself I am not welcome in the UK ... but I have the right like everyone else to safety," he said. "It is better to try and fail."
He doesn't feel safe around Hezbollah? Wonder why?
Britain barred him from returning to the country as part of a government crackdown on Islamic preachers who it says inspires suicide bombers like those who attacked London's transport system last year, killing 52 people. The British Home Office said he had been barred because his presence was "not conducive to the public good".

In an interview with Reuters in Beirut last August, the cleric said he had no intention of returning to Britain because of the way Muslims there were being treated.
Posted by:tipper

#34  mebbe teech him jump throo em hoopoh fiyer
Posted by: muck4doo   2006-07-21 22:31  

#33  ima wuz shure em kids wuld luv em water skiins jihadi show. :)
Posted by: muck4doo   2006-07-21 22:30  

#32  Muck, you misunderstood the question. Towing Omar Bakri behind the cruise ship might be nice to him, but not to the people at the ship's destination.
Posted by: Phil   2006-07-21 22:18  

#31  okay. how bowter litter life raft. mayke ya feel beter phil? :)
Posted by: muck4doo   2006-07-21 22:11  

#30  What's Arabic for "Sucks to be you, doesn't it?"

Oh, wait - I'll bet this clown understands English.... ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2006-07-21 20:03  

#29  The Brittish should have issued him a cell phone and said "we'll get back to you". Wait a day or two, then call him.

The day or two was to make sure that the IAF could pinpoint his signal and send a laser guided passport revocation notice to him.

Everyone is happy! Well almost everyone.

Posted by: Armylife   2006-07-21 17:29  

#28  Brave Sir Omar...
Posted by: Seafarious   2006-07-21 17:04  

#27  The 2nd Draft include him in an excellent article called DEMOPATHS AND THEIR DUPES
And here is his Wiki
Posted by: tipper   2006-07-21 16:56  

#26  That's nice to who?
Posted by: Phil   2006-07-21 14:46  

#25  they culda ben nise an given him a payre of water skis to folloe em with
Posted by: muck4doo   2006-07-21 14:39  

#24  but I have the right like everyone else to safety

That pegged the irony meter. He musta left off the - "Unless you are a Jooo or an infidel, of course."
Posted by: Bobby   2006-07-21 14:36  

#23  Great....now he's invoked the "won't somebody please think of the children!!" defense. This gets better by the hour.
Posted by: Swamp Blondie   2006-07-21 13:42  

#22  no walken teh plank?
Posted by: muck4doo   2006-07-21 12:25  

#21  
Karma's a bitch.
Posted by: Jan   2006-07-21 12:16  

#20  Thanks tu, I was wondering where the Bakri baby factories and future jihad units were stationed. I'm sure Brave Sir Omar is still on the Brit dole via the blessed infidel invention of Western Union.
Posted by: ed   2006-07-21 12:00  

#19  I don't understand why he bothers with a long boat ride back to Britain when his home country is just a few short hours away by car.
Posted by: Azad   2006-07-21 11:40  

#18  According to Al-Guardian, Omar sez, it's for "the children"...

"I am appealing on behalf of my children who are worried and they want to see their own father. Do you want my little sons or my little family to come now to Lebanon? I don't think you want that."

I'd tie ribbons around them and pack them up on the next boat down, scumbag.
Posted by: tu3031   2006-07-21 11:25  

#17  The Ballad of Brave Sir Omar
Bravely bold Sir Omar rode forth from Beiruit.
He was not afraid to die, O brave Sir Omar!
He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways,
Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Omar!

He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp,
Or to have his eyes gouged out, and his elbows broken;
To have his kneecaps split, and his body burned away;
And his limbs all hacked and mangled, brave Sir Omar!

His head smashed in and his heart cut out
And his liver removed and his bowels unplugged
And his nostrils raped and his bottom burned off
And his pen--
Posted by: jay-dubya   2006-07-21 11:09  

#16  "Oi! Hey, Alphie, look 'oo it is!"
Posted by: mojo   2006-07-21 11:00  

#15  tu3031 shows us a good point. Katie Curic was wondering want we want to hear. How about this interview, then him trying to get on the boat. That's true, hurts them and not us. Oh, answered my own question.
Posted by: plainslow   2006-07-21 10:51  

#14  so classic.
Posted by: 2b   2006-07-21 10:33  

#13  I was thinking more of the Klinghoffer approach.
Posted by: Jackal   2006-07-21 09:03  

#12  Asharq Al Awsat interviewed him ten days ago. Among the highlights...

Q) Do you think about going back to the United Kingdom?
A) No. I do not think about that unless Britain renounces its terror laws through which it is terrorizing Muslims under the pretext of fighting terrorism. It is religiously prohibited for people like me to return to the United Kingdom, because this would fall within the framework of offering oneself as captive. Islam prohibits Muslims from allowing themselves to become captives of nonbelievers.

Oooops. Let turn some pages in the Koran to get me out of that. It's in here somewhere. Oh. Okay. There it is. Phew!
Posted by: tu3031   2006-07-21 08:38  

#11  Kathy Shaidle ("Relapsed Catholic") links to this delicious bit of Schadenfreude:

In February this year, he told Radio Four that the person(s) responsible for the cartoons of the so-called prophet Mohammed should be killed: 'However, in Islam, God said, and the messenger Mohammed said, whoever insults a prophet, he must be punished and executed. This man should be put on trial and if it is proven to be executed.'

For a man who glorifies violence, terrorism and bombing it is now a delight to hear that he is not too happy about being in Lebanon while Israeli bombs are falling around him. The bravado of a man who supported killing has evaporated and he is now pleading with the British authorities to be allowed to return to Britain, the country he abused and wished to see vanquished.

Reuters reports that earlier today, Bakri had said he tried to get on board a British warship which was evacuating civilians, but was refused permission to board.

The answer was, 'unless you have a British passport you are not entitled to come on board,' he told Sky News. He said that he had shown British officials his UK driving license and his now-cancelled British passport."
Posted by: Mike   2006-07-21 08:37  

#10  All of the radical's talk about fighting Jew's, and here's one with an oppurtunity, and he wants to leave to live on the dole in England. This is one of your revered your leaders.
Posted by: plainslow   2006-07-21 08:32  

#9  Poor Omar is probably using up his supply of 'Depends' while imagining what would happen to him if he fell into the hands of Israel, or worse - one of its Lebanese allies.

The last of his dole money probably ran out too
Posted by: john   2006-07-21 08:29  

#8  where's RAB when you need them?

"He had a shuttergun and two cartridges of bullets. Halt! Absconder!"
Posted by: Frank G   2006-07-21 08:24  

#7  You don't shoot when on noard of a ship, you hang.
Posted by: JFM   2006-07-21 08:13  

#6  Shame they didn't just shoot him out of hand.
Posted by: Mitch H.   2006-07-21 07:59  

#5  Another failed opportunity! ..... "Thats right Omar, all we have remaining for sleeping quarters are these empty torpedo tubes, but they're nice and quiet, very private."
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-07-21 07:00  

#4  Notice how this Jihad(Tm)-preaching douchebag, who incites young men to commit violence and to go out and fight, is crapping his pants as soon as real violence (and not the worst one, IE the indiscriminate one he advocates) comes a tad near him???

Absolute coward, utter hypocrit.

And these are the sh*theads who tell the whole world they're gonna win because they "love death more than we love life"?
HILARIOUS!

It reminds me of the limousine liberals who can't stop criticize the army and the use of force, but to quote an israeli from one of my ML, "become more militaristic than anybody and ask for harsh measures to be taken as soon as the bombs start coming closer to them"...
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-07-21 05:57  

#3  Another Lion of Islam, running away.
Posted by: Rambler   2006-07-21 05:52  

#2  A documentary on primetime terrestrial TV the other evening implicated this shitbag with both British suicide bombers in Israel and Siddique Khan of 7th July fame. Hand his dwelling's GPS to the IAF. Legitimate target.
Posted by: Howard UK   2006-07-21 05:17  

#1  If this is true, it's delicious.
Posted by: cruiser   2006-07-21 04:45  

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