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To: lorne who wrote (2091)	9/30/2002 7:14:00 PM
From: Chris land	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2926

The author is so steeped in his own bigotry yet he doesn't even see it. If fundamentalist Christians had perpetrated this gesture of murderous censorship, all right-thinking people would have exploded in righteous outrage Who is he to create a distinction between "Christian fundamentalists" and "all right thinking people?"

To: lorne who wrote (2091)	10/17/2002 12:33:15 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2926

'Sheikh' Omar Bakri Muhammad is a self-publicising braggart and an apologist for terrorists - he's no kind of spokesman for anything bar himself. He's the leader of al-Mhuajiroun, which actively propagandised for the Taliban. That's banned even from mosques, never mind sensible places. I've never heard of his court before, but I'm confident it has no legal standing whatsoever. The Guardian is a liberal/LW UK paper, very 'multiculturally'-biassed... see how even they describe him. Al-Muhajiroun Leader: Self-styled Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed Membership: Refused to reveal numbers One of the largest Islamist parties in Britain. The organisation is banned from campuses of many British universities which it uses as a fertile recruiting ground. Formed after a breakaway from Hizb ut-Tahrir, Al-Muhajiroun ("The Emigrants") has one purpose, establishing the Islamic state. Its members are regularly seen with loudhailers exhorting mainstream Muslims and non-believers to embrace their particular brand of fundamentalism, which calls for those practising homosexuality, adultery, fornication and bestiality to be stoned to death. It now denies that it recruits for jihad but it boasted of this before September 11. Bakri Mohammed said of the al-Qaida attacks on the US embassies in Dar-as-Salaam and Nairobi: "We would not carry out terrorist activity ourselves, but we endorse the use of violence. Bin Laden is a hero to all Muslims." He adds: "I want Britain to become an Islamic state. I want to see the flag of Islam raised in 10 Downing Street." guardian.co.uk In other words, some nutter with a cult has taken upon itself to invent his own 'court' and pass 'sentence'. He's got the same right to any action as a four-year-old playing 'let's pretend', assuming a four-year-old was both unpleasant enough and bored enough to do this... He's about as representative of and relevant to Islam (at least in the UK) as David Koresh was of US Christians. And the author of that pathetic piece of journalism should have been able to find that out - unless he deliberately concealed it. However unpleasant most Islamic regimes, however abhorrent most Islamic law, this article's a red herring. At best, it's just ill-informed reporting. To me, it reads like scaremongering to stir up fear and hatred.