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August 28, 2006

UK Islam: Faces of Fanatacism Part Five

In part five of our occasional series of Muslim fanatics currently infecting Britain's body politic, we will examine the role of 42-year old Abu Abdullah (pictured left) who was formerly an aide to the now-jailed preacher, Abu Hamza, the first subject of this series.

Abu Abdullah was born in Britain to Turkish Cypriot parents in 1964. He was born and raised and London, and his birth name was Attila Ahmet. According to a report from the UK Mirror he worked as a soccer coach before he "converted" to radical Islam about eight years ago. He was coach to the Sydenham Boys, Athenlay, and Fisher Athletic, where he earned the nickname "Attila the Hun".

According to Brian Miller, the chairman of the Bexley League: "He was a nutter, very volatile and took it far too seriously. Once I had to referee the managers - not the game."

He apparently was known to colleagues then under the name of "Alan". In 1998, when Attila Ahmet "converted" to Islam and changed his name in the process, he abandoned soccer altogether.

A father of four children, Abu Abdullah was the subject of an article in yesterday's Sunday Times which highlights how the associate of hook-handed Abu Hamza is now openly defying the law by praising the four suicide bombers who killed 52 people on London Transport, and maimed and injured hundreds more.

The UK introduced its Terrorism Act 2006 in April, and this explicitly outlaws the glorification of terrorism. Schedule 1, section 1 (3) qualifies such terms of encouragement of terrorism as a statement which "(a) glorifies the commission or preparation (whether in the past, in the future or generally) of such acts or offences; and (b) is a statement from which those members of the public could reasonably be expected to infer that what is being glorified is being glorified as conduct that should be emulated by them in existing circumstances."

The penalties for this are a maximum of 7 years' jail or a fine, or both, when convicted following an indictment, and up to 12 months' imprisonment upon a summary conviction.

Abu Abdullah now heads a group calling itself Supporters of Sharia which was founded by his friend Abu Hamza when the hook-handed cleric was imam at the Finsbury Park Mosque.

And it is apparently to this group that Abdullah is directing his comments, in blatant defiance of the law, and with the authorities either oblivious or unwillingto take action against him.

Since the law was passed outlawing the glorification of terrorism, Abdullah has also said that he would "love" to kill British troops based in Afghanistan. He described the attacks of 9/11, 2001 as a "deserved punch in the nose" for the United States.

Barred from preaching in most mosques, Abdullah is allowed to make these statements at small meetings held at community centers in London and the adjoining Home Counties.

Last week, according to the Times, he said of the 7/7 bombers: "I wasn't against them. We don't celebrate each other....but these are my honourable brothers in Islam.....Sometimes the innocent have to pay the price....of course it is solving things."

Abdullah also described the 7/7 attacks as a "wake-up call", but whether this was a wake-up call for the UK public that Islamist terrorists lived amongst them, or a wake-up call to Muslims to become radicalized is not specified. He called suicide attacks "halal" or Islamically lawful.

He said of the suicide bomber's role: "He doesn't have weapons of mass destruction, he only has household chemicals....The West is escalating their killing of Muslims. We have a right to defend ourselves. If I had the means to go back there [Afghanistan] and kill an American or British soldier then I would love to do so."

He is virulently anti-semitic. Even though he formerly praised the 9/11 attacks and said that he loved Osama bin Laden more than himself, he now claims those events were stage-managed by Mossad, the Israeli secret service. He called Jews "a treacherous people", and justified a 9/11 style attack upon the White House because he saw George W, Bush as "a scalp that needs to be taken."

On October 14, 2004, Abdullah gave an interview to the Public Broadcasting Service. At that time, following the ousting of Abu Hamza, Abdullah was the leader of the Finsbury Park Mosque.

He claimed then that his real conversion had happened 12 years' previously, in 1992, when he first heard Islam preached in Arabic. He had been only a "nominal" Muslim up until that point. "I was a person that was full of desires, from gambling to other things. There was a stage when I was involved with heavy people. I'm talking about seriously heavy people."

He claimed then that his companion Abu Hamza had been "demonized further than he can be demonized". He said then that he felt "an amount of feelings for certain people in this country. The everyday person, the layman, the civilian", which would have prevented him from fighting against UK forces abroad. It appears that now he has either abandoned that position, or was lying to the PBS interviewer.

But he did justify armed jihad in some circumstances, and claimed violence is encouraged in the Koran: "Allah mentioned jihad in the Quran 26 times, and Allah mentioned quital 79 times. Quital is fighting by a physical fighting -- 79 times."

He said: "People see us as extremists because we don't compromise the religion of Allah. We accept it with every word and every utterance of our beloved prophet Muhammad, that no Muslim can turn away from one ayah of the Quran, one verse of the Quran. If we don't accept this, we actually become disbelievers."

He had contempt for the extremist-supporting hierarchy of the Muslim Council of Britain, condemning them as heretics. He said: "They have invented their own religion and [are] brainwashing the ignorant Muslim that doesn't fully understand the Quran. And this is how they're going, with the support of Tony Blair, to turn fellow Muslims against me or against the likes of Osama bin Laden and etc. and etc. and etc. The ultimate thing is that they're turning them away from the prophet, peace be upon him."

Virtually the same contempt for the so-called moderate Muslims who make deals with the UK government was later made by Mohamed Sidique Khan, one of the 7/7 bombers, in his Al Qaeda-produced "farewell" video which we transcribed earlier: "Our so-called scholars today are content with their Toyotas and semi-detached houses. They seem to think their responsibilities lie with pleasing the khuffar instead of Allah, so they tell us ludicrous things, like "you must obey the law of the land". So how na- how on earth did we conquer lands in the past if we were to obey by this, this law? By Allah, these scholars will be brought to account, and if they fear the British government more than they fear Allah, then they must desist in doing talks, lectures, and passive fatwas and they need to stay at home where they are useless, and leave the job to the real men, the true inheritors of the Prophets.

Abu Abdullah's position at the Finsbury Park Mosque was not to last for long after his PBS interview. As they had done with the thugs who supported Anu Hamza, the trustees of the mosque finally invoked the law, and on February 8, 2005, the Mirror reported that when the trustees, accompanied by riot police confronted Abdullah, he finally agreed to leave the mosque.

According to Ihtisham Hibatullah, of the (extremist-supporting) Muslim Association of Britain: "He was told he wasn't welcome. There were angry words. But with police outside, he left. This man and his followers were damaging the community and the reputation of Islam. Ordinary Muslims were afraid to come here. The mosque can hold 1,000 people but only ever had about 80."

The locks on the mosque were subsequently changed, to prevent Abdullah and his thugs gaining control again.

After being routed from the Finsbury Park Mosque, Abdullah and his thugs then descended upon the East London Mosque in Whitechapel. Inayat Bunglawala of the MCB said that he and about a dozen associates interrupted prayers and tried to sabotage a talk on Islamophobia. He said: "He ranted at me that I was teaching poison. Then his goons made trouble. They were chased out and Abdullah was beaten a bit." Abdullah was later seen wearing dark glasses and limping.

Before being ousted from the Finsbury Park Mosque, Abdullah's sermons were recorded by Bobby Pathak, a reporter from the Mirror, who had spent six weeks under cover attending Abdullah's Friday evening (juma) prayer sessions and sermons.

Pathak wrote that Abdullah described non-Muslims as "filthy" disbelievers. And the preacher also praised "our honourable brothers in Guantanamo Bay".

Abdullah said: "If you cannot do what those honourable brothers are doing today...leaving their wives and children to go to the front line, then this is our front line here."

Like all preachers of violence against the West, Abdullah liked to tell his followers that Muslims around the world are victims. He preached on January 7, 2005: "How can we go home and sleep at night knowing there are millions of Muslims screaming for our help? Do we not have a conscience? Or do we think that we're doing the right thing? Brothers and sisters, the time has come for us to stand up and be counted. Behave like Muslims. It's the least you can do so you can find reward on yaum al-qiyamah (afterlife). Otherwise, the fire is beckoning."

A week later, he preached: "While we fast and worship Allah these shaitan (devils) mock Allah's religion and put Allah's religion to the sword." Eight times in the same sermon Abdullah spoke of Muslims being slaughtered.

"They call us extremists. They see us as strange. Our honourable brothers in Guantanamo, they've become strange. Why? Because they're the Haq (truth) and we've let them down. We've forgotten these people in Afghanistan, in prisons, our mothers, sisters that have been raped. Allah constantly sends us signs in our eyes and we turn away. The tsunami disaster - Muslims died in this. But on these Muslim lands, zina (sinful fornication), night-clubs...the Muslims wanted to dilute the dean (greatness) of Allah."

On January 28, Abdullah told young men that it was a sin for them to wear T-shirts "showing muscles" as it made women to have impure thoughts. And he condemned as sinful women who wore make-up outside the house, or who wore tight trousers and a hijab.

He turned his ire to the Muslim Council of Britain - saying they campaigned to "imprison Muslims". He said of the MCB: "Like the Jews that practise the Torah, they want to practise what's good for them and brush aside or sweep under the carpet what they dislike. Stand up against these murtads (leavers of the faith) who say they're the spokesmen or they represent the Islamic community in this country."

A week later, he was unable to perform his Juma sermon, as riot police had forced him onto the street.

The Times yesterday quoted Rachel North, who survived the 7/7 attack, saying of Abdullah: "Given what we know about the roots of radicalisation, I'm surprised that this man has not yet been investigated and charged if he has committed a criminal offence."

A human rights lawyer, Geoffrey Bindman said that Abdullah's current praise of the 7/7 bombers (at least two of which attended sermons at Finsbury Park Mosque) could be interpreted as incitement of others to copy their actions, and said that his anti-semitic comments could also mean that Abdullah could be charged on grounds of incitement to racial or religious hatred.

As terrorism always starts with an idea, then the authorities in Britain should show some moral integrity and enforce the laws that the government introduced this year. And by charging Abdullah, it should set an example, and show to young already-radicalized Muslims that there is no freedom to preach violent jihad and hate in Britain. To do otherwise would be seen as an encouragement.

Previous entries in this series:
Part One - Abu Hamza
Part Two - Abdullah al-Faisal (Abdullah el-Faisal)
Part Three - Abu Izzadeen
Part Four - Anjem Choudary

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at August 28, 2006 8:40 PM

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