Sunday, February 12, 2006
British imam praises London Tube bombers
Hamid Ali, spiritual leader of the mosque in West Yorkshire, said it had forced people to take notice when peaceful meetings and conferences had no impact.
He also praised the bombers as the “children” of Abdullah al-Faisal, a firebrand Muslim cleric, who was convicted of inciting murder and racial hatred in 2003.
Ali revealed that the leader of the London suicide bombers had attended sermons in Yorkshire by al-Faisal and tapes of al-Faisal’s teachings were still circulating within his mosque.
Al-Faisal, who has branded non-Muslims as “cockroaches” ripe for extermination, is serving a seven-year prison sentence but is eligible for early release next week.
Evidence of continuing extremism and terrorist sympathisers in the bombers’ community has been exposed by a six-week investigation by The Sunday Times. It contrasts with the public statements of condemnation by community leaders — including Ali — in the immediate aftermath of the July 7 attacks...
Now that's a project the Boston Globe should consider. According to Michael Graham's entry of Monday the 6th:
MAS Boston presents itself as a "moderate" organization, by the way. It's hard to believe their Public Affairs chief would be out defending Hamas if he didn't have the backing of the MAS Boston leadership. It seems to me almost newsworthy that the spokesperson for a "moderate" Islamic group--in the city where the 9/11 attacks originated--is a supporter of Hamas.
Unfortunately, we don't have a newspaper in Boston. We have the Boston Globe.
But the Globe won't ask serious questions, and the MAS goes on representing the "moderate" face of Islam in Boston, even hosting religious retreats that pass completely under the radar.
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