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November 19, 2005
UK: Saudis Frustrated By British Failure To Silence Muslim Extremists
Today, the Sunday Times reports on the abject failure of the British Government to tackle the issue of extremist websites, manned in the UK, which advertise hate and act as mouthpieces for al-Qaeda.
One such website is Tajdeed, which is run by Muhammad al-Massari, a Saudi dissident who fled to Britain in 1994, and who claims benefits as an "asylum-seeker". We reported earlier that this Arabic-language site has recently been urging Muslims in Europe to copy the French example, and to start rioting on the streets. Last week, it was announced that the website was carrying a message from Ayman al-Zawahiri that the UK Queen is an "enemy of Islam".
According to homelandsecurityus.com: "UK based Mohammed Al-Massari's Islamic terrorist group, the Tajdeed/Committee for the Defense of Legitimate Rights organization celebrates attacks. .... Al Massari has been soliciting funding for terrorist attacks in the UK, US and other western countries."
Now, according to the Sunday Times, the Saudis are getting annoyed at the UK government's failure to deal with al-Massari and Saad al-Fagih, another Saudi who uses a website and satellite radio to incite uprisings in Saudi Arabia against the ruling Royal House of Saud. The Saudi charge d'affaires in London states "We have been requesting the British authorities to have them extradited. We can give written assurance that we will not execute or torture them."
Al-Massari's website, www.tajdeed.net, was shut down in May, but as www.tajdeed.org.uk it was still operating in August, according to the Jamestown Foundation. Now, www.tajdeed.net is operating again, and it even gives its address and phone number: BM Box: TAJDEED, LONDON; WC1N 3XX, United Kingdom. Tel: (+44) 208-908 4881. Fax: (+44) 208-908-2093.
In August, Dr Muhammad al-Massari was even running a Tajdeed radio station from London, according to Robert Spencer. The radio was broadcasting in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and urged people to attack British troops in Iraq.
The Sunday Times states that the Tajdeed website carries messages urging Jihad, and recently has been glorifying the recent suicide-attacks in Jordan from November 9, which killed at least 60 innocent people.
The article also describes the foundation of a successor to al-Muhajiroun, Ahl ul-Sunnah Wa al-Jamma, and states that the leaders of the group mocked Blair's efforts to ban them.
In July, Blair announced that he would ban the offshoots of al-Muhajiroun (The Saviour Sect and al-Ghurabaa are the "offshoots"), and also the international Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, whose leader in Britain had formerly been Omar Bakri Mohammed. Four months after the announcement, Hizb ut-Tahrir is still not banned, and the Saviour Sect are still active.
Muhammad al-Masri, whose son is in a Seattle prison on cocaine smuggling charges, has publicly called for the overthrow of the House of Saud, and believes homosexuals should be beheaded. For an insight into his ideas, there is an interview with him, here from two years ago, where he mostly details his views on the House of Saud, and a more recent article from the Jamestown Foundation, from August 19, 2005.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at November 19, 2005 10:41 PM
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