Monday, September 04, 2006

ABU ABDULLAH ARRESTED

Spotted one interesting name amongst the fourteen terror suspects arrested over the weekend. From the Times:
A former henchman of Abu Hamza al-Masri is among the 14 men arrested in London on suspicion of involvement in terrorist recruiting.

Abu Abdullah, 42, assumed the leadership of the Supporters of Shariah group when Abu Hamza, the former imam of Finsbury Park mosque, was arrested in May 2004.

He is banned from almost every mosque in Britain but continues to preach an inflammatory message in private “study circles” and has attended camps in the grounds of the Jameah Islamiyah school.

Mr Abdullah, a father of four who is from a Turkish Cypriot family but was born in Britain, is a former youth football coach. He was often seen by Abu Hamza’s side when the cleric preached on the streets of Finsbury Park. Last month The Sunday Times reported comments by Mr Abdullah in which he described the July 7 bombers as “my honourable brothers in Islam” and said that suicide bombing was “halal”, meaning permissible under Islamic law.

He added: “The martyr that goes about his enemies is going to shield his people. 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 I would love to do so.”
Of course he would. Just like Azzam Tamimi wants to go to Palestine to be a suicide bomber.

Check this CNN interview with the brazen Abdullah and consider why the police might have been keeping an eye on him:



I'm not sure what to make of the commenter who states:
This man should be stoned to death for defiling Islam. Insha'allah
Not the most helpful solution, that.

For more on Abu Abdullah, there's this PBS interview from 2004 in which he states:
And a quick quote -- I'd like to put this as well for a message to my brothers and sisters around the world that calls themselves moderates. I urge them to read the Quran and understand instead of passing a judgment without reading the Quran, because Allah mentioned jihad in the Quran 26 times, and Allah mentioned quital 79 times. Quital is fighting by a physical fighting -- 79 times.
Nice bloke.

posted by Dan @ 1:47 am