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February 14, 2006

UK Islam: Faces of Fanaticism Part Two

In part one, the activities of Abu Hamza were described, and how the weaknesses in Britain's judicial system allowed him to preach for death and jihad unchecked. Hamza also may have influenced the 7/7 bombers, three of whom are said to have attended his sermons at Finsbury Park mosque. This weekend's Sunday Times reports that the man pictured here, Abdullah al-Faisal, will be eligible for early release from prison next week.

He was mentioned because the Sunday Times discovered that Hamid Ali, of the Al-Madina Masjid mosque in Tunstall Road, Beeston had described the bombers of 7/7, who killed 52 people in London Transport last year, as al-Faisal's "children".

The Al-Madina mosque is where Mohammed Siddique Khan, the leader of the four-man cell had worshipped. Shehzad Tanweer, another bomber, had also attended the mosque.

The Sunday Times sent an undercover reporter, of Bangladeshi origin, to attend the mosque to find out what lay beneath the public surface. To the world, the mosque is a place of worship. In reality, it is a temple to terrorism. After the 7/7 attacks, imam Hamid Ali declared publicly that those responsible for the bombings should be punished.

Now, he is saying statements within the mosque of a different nature, such as: "What they [the bombers] did was good. They have warned that we are here, we Muslims. People have taken notice that we are here. They died so that people would take notice . . . big meetings and conferences make no change at all. With this, at least people's ears have pricked up."

Ali, obviously practicing Islamic taqqiya (where Islam justifies an individual lying to "unbelievers") said that "Sheikh" Abdullah al-Faisal had visited the mosque three times to give lectures, and that Mohammed Siddique Khan had attended these events. He claimed that Khan possessed many of al-Faisal's audio tapes.

So who is Abdullah al-Faisal, and will the UK government be foolish to allow him to be given an early parole from prison?

42-year old al-Faisal was the worst type of Muslim - the convert looking for status. He was born in Jamaica as Trevor William Forest, and came to Britain in the early 1990s, after spending several years in Saudi Arabia. He had lived with his wife and five children in Stratford, east London until he was arrested.

On 24 February 2003, al-Faisal was convicted on three counts of racial incitement and three of "soliciting murder" (under the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act) by a unanimous verdict from the jury. The Telegraph at the time stated that his trial was attended by a jury from which Hindus and Jews were excluded, a travesty of normal court procedures.

Al-Faisal, who had started life in a home in Jamaica where his parents were in the Salvation Army, and helped the poor on that island, had left home at the age of 16. He had gone to South America, and then he had travelled to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia where he studied Islam.

He was sponsored by Saudi religious authorities, who paid for him to come to Britain in 1991, where he became the imam of Brixton mosque, south London. In the eleven years that he lived in Britain, he received state benefits while planning to disrupt the society which fed him. During his trial the judge, Peter Beaumont, received a letter from Scotland, in which he was offered a bribe of 50,000 pounds.

Al-Faisal was preaching at several mosques in Britain. At the Brixton mosque, Zaccarias Moussaui, implicated in the 9/11 US attacks, attended. The shoe bomber Richard Reid also was a regular visitor at this mosque.

Al-Faisal gave sermons at a mosque in Tipton in the west Midlands. It is said that the "Tipton terrorist", Munir Ali, was radicalised by his sermons. Ali went to fight in Afghanistan and has now vanished without trace.

Al-Faisal's sermons were recorded and sold. DVDs have been made recently by Amar Iqbal, an Islamist from Ashton-Under-Lyne near Manchester. These are still being distributed to this day,

The audio tapes of his sermons had led to his arrest. Police were investigating al Qaeda links with UK terrorists. In Dorset, in the southwest of England, a man was arrested on charges including rape. In his car, two of the racist imam's audiotapes were discovered. As a result, al-Faisal's home was searched.

During his trial, the contents of these tapes were described by the prosecution, and they are horrific in their malevolence. He suggested that nuclear power stations could be fuelled with bodies of Hindus, slaughtered for their "oppression" of Muslims in Kashmir.

Listeners to his sermons were told to wage war on "unbelievers" and mothers to bring up their sons not as "wimps" but with a jihad mentality and to give toy guns, tanks and helicopter gunships as presents.

America, he declared, was the great Satan. But Britain, France, Italy and Germany were also numbered among Islam's greatest enemies.

In one sermon he advanced "19 reasons why there can never be peace with the Jews", accusing them of being racist, rotten to the core, sexually perverse and experts in temptation and sedition.

In evidence, he cited the death of Ilan Ramon, the Israeli astronaut killed in the Columbia shuttle disaster, as a "splendid example" of Jewish deceit because he died on a Saturday when Jews were not supposed to be at work.

According to the BBC, he encouraged teenage boys to learn how to use rifles, fly planes and use missiles "to kill unbelievers", offering them a place in paradise as a reward for martyrdom.

His tapes were sold at Islamic bookshops, and formed the mainstay of the prosecution's case against him. He claimed in one taped sermon that "might is right"

The Times claims that he was a close associate of Earnest James Ujaama. In the US in April 2003, James Ujaama pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to support the Taliban. Ujaama and Abu Hamza and Haroon Rashid Aswat were involved in trying to set up a jihadi training camp in Bly, Oregon.

Considering Al-Faisal's influence as a preacher who has encouraged individuals who have gone on to take part in jihadi operations and also appears to have incited at least two of the bombers who attacked London Transport last year, the notion of releasing al-Faisal early from his sentence seems unbelievable.

One hopes the Home Office will recommend that he serves his full seven year jail term. Already, the distributors of DVDs of al-Faisal's sermons, which carry statements such as British law is "put together by the henchmen of Satan, people who are gays and devil worshippers," are preparing to take over production of these DVDs when he is released.

A prison sentence is a sentence. That it should be routinely halved makes a mockery of the initial sentencing at time of conviction. Considering the widespread and malicious influence of this man, even while he is behind bars, to allow him early release from jail would potentially endanger lives.

Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, should exert his powers and prevent this man from entering the community. There were discussions at the time of al-Faisal's trial that immigration authorities were considering his residential status. Even if deported, al-Faisal will become involved with supporters of international terrorism. Clarke should ensure he remains in prison for a further three years, in the interests of both national security and international security.

Keywords: Abdullah al-Faisal, Abdullah el-Faisal

For more information on the content of these sermons, see HERE

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at February 14, 2006 2:39 PM

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