British jihadist depicts U.S. Capitol in flames
Sheikh who operates openly around world supports al-Qaida
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Radical British Islamist Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad, never one to shy away from incitement, now maintains on his website a prominent picture of the U.S. Capitol in flames, reports Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
The image runs under a headline promoting one of his conferences in London – "How the Khilafah will be restored and man-made law destroyed."
Bakri has boasted openly about exploiting the freedom of speech in the West as a weapon against it – to "transform the West into Dar Al-Islam," or House of Islam.
"I want to see the black flag of Islam flying over Downing Street," he has said.
His al-Muhajiroun group is dedicated to this goal. How does he get away with such inflammatory rhetoric?
"As long as my words do not become actions, they do no harm," he explains. "Here, the law does not punish you for words, as long as there is no proof you have carried out actions. In such a case you are still on the margins of the law, and they cannot punish you. If they want to punish you, they must present evidence against you, otherwise their laws will be in a state of internal contradiction."
Al-Muhajiroun has chapters all over the world – including the United States. It actively supports the ideology of Osama bin Laden and Bakri has long been suspected of having ties to al-Qaida.
Part of Bakri's al-Muhajiroun empire is the website – which has called for the death by crucifixion, or worse, of the real terrorists: Americans and their Muslim proxies in Pakistan.
According to Sheik Omar, Muslims in the West have very serious responsibilities in preparing the people to embrace Islam or to accept the Islamic way of life.
Al-Muhajiroun calls for Muslims in the West to "be the front line of the coming Khilafah ... to become strong and united in order to become the fifth column, which is able to put pressure on the enemies of Islam and to be able to support the Muslim Ummah worldwide." The organization believes that "bonding the Muslim community in the West with the Muslims globally" is the secret to setting off a "worldwide Islamic revolution."
Bakri has said the West is guilty of imposing "man-made law" on Muslims, but that a "[future] Islamic regime will impose Islamic religious rulings on them."
"Either we preach to them [the West] and they will accept [Islam], or we will live among them and they will be influenced by our lives and will accept Islam as a political solution to their problems, not as an ideological solution," he said.
The Syrian-born Bakri also said, "Islam defended the religion of the Christians, the Jews, and others, and stated that 'there is no coercion in religion.' But the coercion is in the laws. Laws can be Islamic-religious and they can be man-made."
"Allah willing, we will transform the West into Dar Al-Islam [that is, a region under Islamic rule] by means of invasion without," said Bakri. "If an Islamic state arises and invades [the West] we will be its army and its soldiers from within. If not, [we will change the West] through ideological invasion … without war and killing."
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