American-Born Imam Spews Message of Hate in England
Fox News ^ | January 17, 2007 | George Kindel
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A New Jersey-born Muslim cleric with links to a suspected Al Qaeda operative who surfaced at a college not far from the cleric's Peoria, Ill., mosque the day before the Sept. 11 attacks has found a new home.
The imam now is spewing his message of hate to a growing group of followers at a mosque in Birmingham, England.
His target: the United States, the United Kingdom, Christians and Jews.
Abu Usamah at-Thahabi, who preached at the Islamic Center of Peoria in 2001, is the subject of a British news documentary that revealed Monday how he regularly exhorts worshippers at the Green Lane Masjid, or mosque, in Birmingham to hate Westerners, whom he calls "pathological liars" and "kuffar," a derogatory term for non-Muslims.
Abu Usamah also calls for the public crucifixion of all "kuffar" and says they should be "left there to bleed to death for three days."
~snip~ Abu Usamah, in the days immediately after Sept. 11, asked Peoria residents not to judge the Muslim community by the actions of the terrorists who carried out the attack and thanked the local Christian community for its support.
"More faiths, different groups reached out to us," he told the Peoria Journal Star newspaper a year after the attacks.
He went on to thank "those open-minded people who judge everyone individually."
The New Jersey-born imam, who claims to have studied a strict version of Islam at the Islamic University of Medina in Saudi Arabia, has since changed his tune.
"Lying is part of their religion," Abu Usamah is heard telling his followers in the special report by the British news show "Dispatches" on Channel 4.
"They do whatever they want to do. They are liars, they are terrorists themselves. They are lying, you can't believe them.
"They are pathological liars," he rants.
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