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January 29, 2008

UK: Man Admits Plotting To Behead Muslim Soldier

In January 2007, police carried out raids in Birmingham. At the time, there was hostility and resentment from Muslim "representatives" to the raid. Dr Mohammad Naseem, chairman of the Birmingham Central Mosque, claimed Britain was becoming a police state, and compared Muslims in Britain to Jews living under Hitler. Mahmoud Shadrajeh, head of the improbably named "Islamic Human Rights Commission" - himself a supporter of Hizbollah's terrorism - claimed the Birmingham raids gave to the public a "bad image" of Muslims.

Adam Mussa of the Muslim Brotherhood-founded Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) claimed: "Some of the people arrested are just individuals with loud voices, who are vocal about various neighbourhood issues, but that doesn't make them terrorists. It's not fair. This seems to be happening again and again. This is a form of victimisation and your average 'Mo Public' is feeling very cynical. When you come in and do a job you should make sure you clean up after yourself, and that's what the police need to do here."

The raids happened as there had been intelligence that a cell of British Islamists had planned to kidnap and behead a Muslim soldier. A particular Muslim soldier had already been targeted, and was under protection. He was a corporal in military intelligence, chosen from a shortlist of 25 individuals, it was revealed, shortly after the arrests.

Adam Mussa justified his hostility to the Birmingham raids by ridiculing the notion of such a plot. He said: "So for a Muslim to kill another Muslim is much worse, it's like killing a member of your own family, because they share the same beliefs as you."

Salma Yaqoob of George Galloway's "Respect" party who is a Birmingham City Councillor, representing Sparkbrook, said: "The reality is that people are asking why are we being picked on, why are we being persecuted, because that's what it feels like when all they want to do is get on with their day-to-day lives."

As a result of the cumulative hostility from the Muslim community and its so-called "representatives", police announced that 50,000 leaflets would be distributed, to reassure members of the Muslim community that they were not being "picked on".

Those shrill cries claiming persecution can now be exposed as false. A trial is currently taking place in Leicester Crown Court. And it is only now revealed that 37-year old Parviz Khan, one of the nine people arrested in late January and early February 2007, has pleaded guilty to plotting to kidnap and decapitate a British Muslim soldier.

Khan, an "unemployed charity worker" admitted his guilt earlier this month, but the news was suppressed until a trial involving two other individuals, Amjad Mahmood, 33, and Zahoor Iqbal, 31, began. These two denied involvement in the plot.

Originally, Parviz Khan, who is said to be the leader of the plot, had entered a "not guilty" plea in October 2007, and the trial itself began on January 14, 2008. It appears the case of Khan was heard before the other defendants. Those who are on trial are Parviz Khan, Amjad Mahmood, Mohammed Irfan, Zahoor Iqbal, Hamid Elasmar and Basiru Gassama.

News is carried by the BBC, Times, Telegraph, Express & Star, Press Association.

The plan, according to Khan, had been to have drug dealers kidnap the Muslim soldier from the Broad Street area of central Birmingham, and then to imprison him in a lock-up garage. There he would be the subject of a video as he was to be decapitated. The ensuing video was then intended to be circulated on the internet.

Three of the other accused have admitted guilt. Basiru Gassama, 30, has said he knew of the plot bit did not report it. Mohammed Irfan, 31, and Hamid Elasmar, 44, have pleaded guilty of supplying equipment to Khan.

Only Amjad Mahmood, 33, and Zahoor Iqbal, 31, deny guilt.

The case raises some disturbing questions. The notion of a typical British jihadist is someone young, alienated and impressionable. All of the accused, including the four who admit their guilt, are over 30, so do not fit into the expected stereotype.

The hysterical reactions of so-called Muslim representatives belied the seriousness of the police raids, which appear now validated. Their vocal opposition to the police carrying out their duty suggests that it could be possible that in future police will be more reluctant to carry out their routine duties, for fear of offending these "representatives".

The raids took place in Alum Rock, Sparkhill and other parts of Birmingham.

The Hamza mosque in Sparkhill featured in a Channel 4 documentary last year. A visiting imam said: "There was an individual who was killed in Afghanistan recently. A Muslim name, he came from a Pakistani family. Do you know what they had written in a tabloid newspaper? 'Hero of Islam'. 'Hero of Islam' who went into Muslim Afghanistan to kill Muslims. Why? Because their crime is implementing Islam. The 'Hero of Islam' is the one who separated his head from his shoulders."

The soldier referred to by the visiting imam was Lance Corporal Jabron Hashmi, killed in Helmand province, Afghanistan on July 1, 2006. Jabron Hashmi was the first British Muslim soldier to die in battle since Operation Enduring Freedom began in September 2001.

Some of those arrested last year frequented this Sparkbrook mosque, stated the Times of February 4, 2007. MI5 had discovered in the fall of 2006 that Al Qaeda had urged British terror cells to carry out kidnapping and beheadings. The Hamza mosque is also associated with Tablighi Jamaat, an extremist Deobandi group that intends to build a "mega-mosque" in Newham, east London.

Exiled Islamist Omar Bakri Mohammed had claimed in summer 2006 that a British soldier in Afghanistan or Iraq should be kidnapped. He described coalition troops as "non-believers".

In 1996, Bakri was the founder of Al Muhajiroun, and after this extremist group was disbanded in October 2004, he acted as spiritual emir of its successor groups, Al Ghurabaa, the Saviour/Saved Sect. One of the leading figures of Al Muhajiroun and its successors was Abu Izzadeen (aka Trevor Brooks, aka Omar Brooks).

In February 2007, it was revealed that a video had been circulating on the internet since 2006. In this video, which was made in 2004, Abu Izzadeen was shown in London's Central Mosque in Regent's Park, urging the beheading of British Muslim soldiers.

He says on the video: "Whoever allies himself with the Kaffirs (non-believers) against the believers - he is one of them. So those so-called enemies to Allah who join the British Government - 'cos remember the British Government, my dear Muslim brothers, are crusaders... crusaders come to kill and rape Muslims. Whoever joins them - he who joins the British Army, the American Army, he is a mortal kaffir and his only hukum (punishment) is for his head to be removed. Indeed, whoever changes his deen (Muslim code of life); kill him."

Now, Parviz Khan, who has been described by prosecutor Nigel Rumfitt QC as a "fanatic, a man who has the most violent and extreme Islamist views" has admitted that he DID plot to behead a Muslim soldier.

The makers of the Channel 4 documentary showed the audience at the Sparkbrook Hamza mosque approving of the words of the visiting imam who praised the killer of Lance Corporal Jabron Hashmi. West Midlands police asked for the more than 50 hours of video material collected by the documentary, ostensibly to seek material to prosecute the extremists represented. Instead of trying to prosecute the Islamists, Anil Patani of West Midlands Police decided to condemn the documentary makers. His constabulary had asked if they could be prosecuted for stirring up racial hatred.

When that failed, Pattani stated that his force had sent a formal complaint against the documentary makers to the broadcasting regulators Ofcom. That unprecedented action was widely condemned, and Ofcom themselves rejected the claim.

Nigel Rumfitt QC, the prosecutor in the current trial at Leicester Crown Court has had: "The leading activity of this (terror cell) was to gather money and items to be sent to Pakistan for the use of terrorists operating around the Afghan border on four occassions."

BBC TV News at One has stated that the prosecution maintains that the cell had intended to export equipment that would be used to kill British soldiers.

The Muslim community "representatives" should be censured for their overstated reactions last January and February. There WAS a terror plot to kidnap and kill a Muslim soldier. These representatives tried to use the media to discredit a necessary police operation which aimed to prevent the killing and beheading of a known Muslim soldier. They also exploited this case to dishonestly push their own agenda, to whine about Muslim victimhood by the state.

If a Muslim soldier was at risk of being tortured and beheaded, their craven eagerness to promote their own agenda shows just how little they cared about the plight of a patriotic fellow Muslim.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at January 29, 2008 8:16 AM

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