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To: Scott Bergquist who wrote (8075)	9/12/2003 9:14:54 AM
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British Muslims mark Sept. 11 with mixed emotions Last Updated Thu, 11 Sep 2003 22:31:55 cbc.ca LONDON - There was a sombre ceremony in London on Thursday. A plaque was unveiled in the garden in front of the American Embassy. On it are engraved the names of the 67 British victims of Sept. 11. But elsewhere in the city remembrance sparked something other than grief. "We warn the Muslims, wherever they are, particularly the Muslims in Iraq, not to offer any support morally, financially, militarily, physically. Not even to give a glass of water to anybody who is fighting against Islam," said Abdul Salim. It was a fatwa, a judgment, drawn up and read out by a fringe British Muslim group al-Muhajiroun. It says Sept. 11 split the world into two: Islam and non-Islam. A "Magnificent 19" poster The group put up signs and stickers to commemorate the perpetrators of the attack, whom they call The Magnificent 19. "In fact for Muslims worldwide, the term 'magnificent' is not strong enough. If there was a superlative greater than magnificent, Muslims would use it. Because as far as Muslims are concerned, these 19 individuals who did the operation were fighting to defend their fellow Muslims abroad," said al-Muhajiroun's Amjem Choudary. Mainstream British Muslims have been quick to denounce the group as out on the fringe, their ideas as preposterous. But, even mainstream Muslims are upset with American and British actions. On Thursday, leaders of the Muslim Council of Britain met with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw where they complained strongly about the continued detentions at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and about American pressure on Britain to shut down the charity arm of Hamas. "In fact, the very methods adopted by the American government seem to be the very same methods used by the terrorist organizations to put down the ordinary civilians in different parts of the world," said Iqbal Sacranie, general secretary of the Muslim Council. For many in the British Muslims community, Sept. 11 is a day of sorrow mixed with anger. Sept. 11 was, they believe, a day that divided and polarized, and left them on the wrong side. Written by CBC News Online staff