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May 25, 2007

UK: Islamist Hate Preacher Deported

News from the Telegraph, Radio Jamaica, the Guardian, This is London, BBC, Reuters and the Times:

Radical preacher of Muslim hate Abdullah el-Faisal was today deported to Britain from his native Jamaica. 43-year old Faisal had come to Britain in 1992, after studying at the Imam Ibn Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was funded by Saudis to do "Da'wah" or missionary work, in Britain. His da'wah involved preaching hate against Jews and Hindus, and also urging followers to fight Americans.

On February 24, 2003 Faisal had been convicted of soliciting murder (under the terms of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act) and inciting racial hatred. His trial had been bizarre, in that the judge, Peter Beaumont, had allowed the defense request to exclude any Hindus or Jews from sitting on the jury. This precedent went against the prevailing notion that justice should be impartial. Additionally, during this trial the judge was also offered a bribe of £50,000 ($98,000), in a letter which had been posted from Scotland.

On March 7, 2003 Faisel had been sentenced to nine years' jail, but this was later reduced on appeal to seven years. At the culmination of his trial, there were protests at the Old Bailey court from Muslims.

Faisal had been born in Jamaica as Trevor WIlliam Forrest to a Christian family with Salvation Army connections, and in Britain he had married a Pakistani-born graduate of biology called Zubeida Khan. The couple who live din Stratford, east London, had three children. Judge Peter Beaumont, who is the Common Serjeant of London, had said at the end of his trial: "Instead of calming fears, you fanned the flames of hatred. Furthermore, your words were not confined to your study circles but were recorded to be distributed to bookshops for sale. You urged those who listened and watched to kill those who did not share your faith."

The judge also stated that Faisal should be deported at the end of his sentence. In April 2007, when Faisal knew that he would soon be released from prison (in the UK it is usual for prisoners to only serve half of their jail tariff) he appealed against his deportation. He claimed that deporting him would "breach his human rights" - even though his hate-filled sermons gave no consideration of the human rights of Hindus or Jews. He claimed that under Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights, he should be entitled to "privacy and a family life".

The sermons Faisal made were recorded onto cassete and distributed to Muslims around Britain. The official Home Office report on the events of 7/7, 2005, in which 52 innocent people were killed, claimed that Germaine Lindsey, one of the four 7/7 suicide bombers, had been strongly influenced by the recorded sermons of Faisal.

After his original conviction, his wife Zubaida's tried to justify her husband's statements. She said: "When he said, 'If you see a Hindu walking down the road you are allowed to kill him and take his money', he was talking about a war-like situation such as the problems between Muslims and Hindus in Kashmir." She continued: "When he said, 'How wonderful it is to kill a kaffir, he was quoting from holy scriptures. He is a man of God, a good father, and a very good husband. If he were a terrorist, he would not have chosen to speak in public."

These are a few of his statements made in his sermons:

"There are two religions in the world today, the right one and the wrong one - Islam versus the rest of the world."

And yet he described himself thus: "I am a dove, not a hawk."

One statement he made ominously suggested that the Saudi royal family sponsored terror. He said: "Do you, like many, cry because you are poor? If so, wage jihad! Look at all the money stashed away in Swiss banks. There's bank in Brunei where King Fahd has deposited 30 million dollars. If you are suffering from poverty, wage jihad and see the money pour into your hands."

Faisal said that Princess Diana and Prince Philip would be "tossed into the hellfire to abide forever". He also thought Mother Theresa of Calcutta was roasting in Hell. He claimed that British law was "put together by the henchmen of Satan, people who are gays and devil worshippers." He even suggested that power stations should be fueled with the bodies of slaughtered Hindus.

Faisal was also a friend of James Ujaama.

Khan, and also Shehzad Tanweer, another 7/7 bomber, had worshipped at the Al-Madina Masjid mosque in Tunstall Road, Beeston. Abdullah al-Faisal had preached at this mosque, and Khan had been in attendance. The senior imam at this mosque, Hamid Ali, has called the four bombers Faisal's "children". The imam recalled that when Abdullah al-Faisal preached, Mohammed Sidique Khan asked him several questions.

Peter Clarke, head of Scotland Yard's anti-terrorism unit, said after Faisal's conviction: "We will never know how many of those young, impressionable people whom El-Faisal spoke to then went abroad to areas of conflict or training camps and have never returned. We have very good grounds for believing that some people actually did go abroad as a result of listening to him."

Al-Faisal preached at Manchester, Worthing, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Swansea, and Birmingham, among other venues. At his trial, the court heard how he promised to his followers, some merely schoolboys, that those who killed unbelievers in a holy war would receive 72 virgins as their reward.

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.

Keyword: Abdullah al-Faisel, Jermaine Lindsay

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