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January 18, 2007

UK: Police Probe Radical US Imam

The documentary produced by Channel Four for its Dispatches thread, entitled "Undercover Mosques" was aired on Monday January 15. In this documentary, various radical preachers were shown preaching messages of hate at Green Lane mosque in Birmingham (see below).

The most vocal of these is 42-year old "Abu Usama", aka Abu Usaamah Adh-Dhahabi or Abu Usaamah Adh-Thahabi, an American from New Jersey. He appears on the website of MPACUK, the Muslim Public Affairs Committee. As is typical of MPACUK, the interviewer refers to the objective documentary by Channel Four as "fascist".

Abu Usama digresses, and tries to state that his statements were edited, to give a false impression. His rambling defense can also be found here or here. It is extremely boring material, and reeks of dishonesty. It is also hypocritical, as if you listen to this audio sermon by Abu Usama you will hear him saying it is forbidden to take photographs of people and animals. Yet he is prepared to be photographed to "clear his name".

Now, according to the Birmingham Mail, Abu Usama is being investigated by West Midlands police.

He said today that he has "nothing to hide". He stated: "I totally embrace and encourage a police investigation because I do not believe that the security forces will have any hidden agenda in which they will allow themselves to be swayed by Channel Four's sensationalist journalism."

He also said: "Prior to that statement I was talking about freedom of speech and how I enjoy it here in this country but freedom of speech has its boundaries - that's what we should work by."

It is imperative that West Midlands police take Abu Usama, and the other preachers featured in the documentary, to court. The Crown Prosecution had made two attempts to have Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, and another man, Mark Collett, tried before a court. Griffin and Collett had said disparaging remarks about Islam, and though not convicted by their first trial, they were again placed on trial in 2006. They were acquitted of inciting racial hatred on November 10, after the two trials had created a massive bill for the tax-payer.

Nick Griffin has written a very articulate letter to the West Midlands police. This is a segment:

As the people of this country are already all too well aware, such radical Islamist teachings are not a matter merely for academic concern; the role of hate-preaching in radicalising and recruiting potential terrorists and suicide bombers is a matter of record. This is not an issue of free speech, since freedom of speech has never included the right to incite serious criminal offences.

I therefore write to ask that your force take immediate action to obtain all the material collected by Channel Four in the course of their investigation and to create a specialist investigative team to study the material in detail with a view to bringing prosecutions and to closing down institutions and organisations responsible for these various hate-crimes. In addition, since it is also well-known that radical Islam is a form of ideological and psychological virus, I ask that serious consideration be given - in the interests of public safety - to the immediate closure of all the buildings shown as being the bases for these dangerous teachings until your investigation is over and the guilty individuals have been removed and replaced by genuine moderates who can be guaranteed not to preach hatred and jihad against our society.

Mr Griffin goes on to mention that the Markazi Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith is a registered UK charity, and the Charities Commission should be informed of the hate-mongering activities of the Ahl-e-Hadith (registered charity number 272001).

According to the Birmingham Mail, Abu Usama lives in Birmingham. Unless he has married a UK citizen, he should not be given rights of residence in this country. His inflence is too pernicious.

I have listened to some of his audio sermons on the internet. In one two-part sermon, he condemns Shias and Jews as being equally "dishonest". Part one of "Similarities Between the Jews and the Shia" can be found here and part two can be found here.

A man like Usama is nothing other than a provocateur. He does no favors to Muslims' reputations, and he certainly does no favors for Britain.

The Charities Commission is notoriously bad at acting on radical Islamic groups posing as charities. It has failed to take action against the UK charity Interpal, even though this charity is designated by the US Treasury for its supplying of funds to the terror group Hamas.

If you think the Charity Commission should take action against the Markazi Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith, the UK Charity Commission can be contacted by telephone on (+44) 0845 3000218. Letters can be sent to: Charity Commission Direct, PO Box 1227, Liverpool, L69 3UG, United Kingdom.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at January 18, 2007 10:41 AM

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