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Radical Islamic Group Warns Muslims against Helping British or American Military

Radical Islamic Group Warns Muslims against Helping British or American Military

Author: Jeremy Reynalds
Publication: www.MensNewsDaily.com
Date: September 30, 2003
URL: http://mensnewsdaily.com/archive/newswire/nw03/mnd/newswire093003.htm

A radical London-based Islamic sect that described the September 11 hijackers as the "magnificent 19" is warning all Muslims, particularly those in Iraq, not to offer support to either the British or American troops in the region.

A so-called "fatwa," or Islamic decree, issued by Omar Bakri Muhammad's self-titled Shariah Court of the UK talks against offering "any support, morally or financially or militarily or physically in their onslaught against Islam and Muslims in the region, though they attempt to take the Muslims onto their side."

The document says that those Muslims who do decide to offer help will become a legitimate target for the mujahideen( Muslims who consider themselves warriors for the faith).

The document further reads, "Some Muslims have been misled by other defeated deviant Muslims, who request on behalf of the British government, for Muslims to join the British army in their onslaught and crusade against Islam and Muslims. And a similar example for some Muslims in America who have also started to join the US army, and Allah ... forbids that.

He says, "O Believers, do not take Jews and Christians as an alliance, they are only allies to each other, and whosoever allies with them, he is one of them, and Allah does not guide the oppressors."

According to the decree, any British Muslim traveling to Muslim countries and aligning himself with British and American troops against Muslims will be considered apostate.

The statement reads, "He is at war with Islam and Muslim, and his life and wealth will have no sanctity. He like the disbelievers is a clear enemy for Islam and Muslims and consequently becomes a legitimate target for the Mujahideen, and if they die they will die outside of the fold of Islam, and they will never be dignified in their death nor buried with the Muslims."

The decree continues by asking Muslims working as police spies or soldiers to "give up immediately their apostasy."

For those Muslims not willing to do that, the decree writer promises a horrible fate. He writes, "One of their deceptions is that they claim to be believers, yet they spy on Muslims or they go abroad to fight them, or they report against them to the kuffar."

The document continues, "If they claim to do so as no more than a job, we remind them of the saying of the Prophet (saw) said "Whoever earns a bite of food by reporting or spying on Muslims, Allah will feed him the equivalent in the hellfire, and whoever wears clothes earning from spying against Muslims, Allah will clothe him with hellfire."

The document claims that since the "invasion" of Iraq, it has become clear that the "hidden agenda" of the American government is the destruction of Islam and the redrawing of the map of the region. That, the writer says, has been by the speeches of numerous "American senators who did not keep it secret nor ambiguous."

The writer says that it is not a surprise to learn that non believers "are planning to destroy Islam and Muslims, because that is one of their main tasks, even though it is impossible but what is a surprise is to see Muslims "going astray."

The writer says while these Muslims are misled by those people who are impressed with the disbelievers, nobody is impressed by them other than the ignorant. the unbelievers

He writes, "Part of their ignorance and apostasy is that they ally with the disbelievers and join their forces, and their being called 'British Muslim' as members of the British army. They travel all the way, not to liberate Jerusalem but rather in order to turn with the disbelievers to harm Islam and the Muslims, in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine."

Omar Bakri Mohammed, the man behind the pronouncement and Al-Muhajiroun, has been linked to British suicide bombers in Israel and has also issued calls to overthrow the British government.

According to the BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/ 3142764.stm), Muhammad was blasted by Trevor Phillips, head of the Commission for Racial Equality. Phillips said "extremists" like Muhammad and Abu Hamza were using tension in the Middle East and after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 to further their own agendas and the sooner they are deported the better it will be.

Phillips was referring to the British Home Secretary's attempt to strip Hamza of British citizenship and deport him to Egypt. There may be a similar deportation attempt made against Muhammad.

The BBC reported that Phillips also said, "Every time Abu Hamza or Sheikh Omar do their thing in front of the television cameras, Muslims suffer in dozens of places in this country ... They claim to be speaking on behalf of Muslims but they do things in such a way that every time they speak, some Muslim somewhere else in Britain gets it in the neck."

Muhammad's organization responded to Phillips' statement in a press release, commenting the statement by Trevor Phillips ... that Sheikh Abu Hamza and Sheikh Omar Bakri should be deported from the UK and that their activities have led to Muslims being attacked on British streets is not only foolish but also uncorroborated, irresponsible and a reflection of the stance of this government quango organisation's close ties with the Blair regime and its fascist foreign policy in the Muslim world."

Muhammad was born in Aleppo, Syria, in 1958 and grew up in a wealthy Muslim family, becoming a serious student of Islam and the Koran. He received his B.A. in Shari'ah and the foundations of Islamic law from Shari'ah University in Damascus, obtaining a master's degree in Islamic jurisprudence from the University of Al-Imam Al-U'zaie in Beirut.

According to the Middle East Media Research Institute, Muhammad portrays himself as being the spokesman for bin Laden's International Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders and according to MEMRI has admitted that the organization raises funds for the Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, and is "in touch" with the Hizbullah.

According to MEMRI, Muhammad has lived in London since 1985 and preaches at a number of London mosques. He also routinely presents himself as a spokesman for the International Islamic Front, which he describes as being the political wing of Osama bin Laden's Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders.
 


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