Attacks on UK will continue, radical cleric says

WaPo reported Militant Islamists will continue to attack Britain until the government pulls its troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, one of the country's most outspoken Islamic clerics said on Friday. Speaking 15 days after bombers killed over 50 people in London and a day after a series of failed attacks on the city's transport network, Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed said the British capital should expect more violence.

Britain should expell him, if they can't put him in prison.

"What happened yesterday confirmed that as long as the cause

I.E. If Britain is not yet an Islamic Nation, subject to Sharia Law

and the root problem is still there ... we will see the same effect we saw on July 7," Bakri said. "If the cause is still there the effect will happen again and again," he said, adding he had no information about future attacks or contacts with people planning to carry out attacks. Bakri, a Syrian-born cleric who has been vilified in Britain since 2001 when he praised the September 11 hijackers, said he did not believe the bombings and attempted attacks on London were carried out by British Muslims. He condemned the killing of all innocent civilians but described attacks on British and U.S. troops in Muslim countries as "pro-life" and justified.

How is the killing of all innocent civilians anywhere close to "pro-life"

In an interview with Reuters, Bakri described Osama bin Laden, leader of the radical Islamist network al Qaeda, as "a sincere man who fights against evil forces." Bakri said he would like Britain to become an Islamic state but feared he would be deported before his dream was realized. "I would like to see the Islamic flag fly, not only over number 10 Downing Street, but over the whole world," he said. A hate figure for the British tabloid press, the bearded and bespectacled Bakri said Islam contained "a message of peace for those who want to live with the Muslims in peace." "But Islam is a message of war for those who declare war against Muslims," he said. "I condemn any killing and any bombing against any innocent people in Britain or abroad, but I expect the British people to condemn the killing of Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan."

Most of that killing is being done by Islamic terrorists, and I condem them for their action.

However, asked about Islamist attacks on British and U.S. troops and on Israelis, he said: "If violence is pro-life I don't condemn it."

How about condeming the violence that is not pro-life.

Britain has around 1,100 troops in Afghanistan and 8,500 in Iraq. Prime Minister Tony Blair supported the United States in its respective invasions of both countries in 2001 and 2003. Bakri, a 46-year-old father of six, was born in Syria and lived in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. When the Saudi government expelled him in 1985 he came to London. Nicknamed "The Tottenham Ayatollah" after the area of north London in which he lives, he has infuriated many Britons with his firebrand speeches and refusal to condemn suicide bombings. He founded the British branch of Hizb ut-Tahrir, which describes itself as a non-violent political party dedicated to creating an Islamic caliphate centered on the Middle East. But he split from the group in 1996 and set up al Muhajiroun, which won notoriety in 2001 for celebrating the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon which killed nearly 3,000 people. Bakri has Syrian and Lebanese citizenship and says he thinks the British government might deport him to one of those two countries in the wake of this month's bombings. "But I think that would be political suicide for the British government if they started to deport and imprison all extremists and radicals," he said. "Because if, God forbid, something happened again, they would have nobody left to blame."

Marc @USSNeverdock blogged Just in case there are still those of you out there who want to pretend that these are the words of a radical Muslim, read this:

The New York Times reports "...only 33 percent of Muslims said they wanted more integration into mainstream British culture."

The other 67% want Britain to become an Islamic state.

And it's not just British Muslims who say this. In America the voice of so called moderate Muslims is the terrorist front organization, CAIR who had this to say:

Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR, "I want to see the U.S become an Islamic nation."

You see this has nothing to do with Iraq and Afghanistan and everything to do with Islam's desire to rule the world. Anytime you hear a Muslim or non-Muslim for that matter, say these terrorists attacks are about British foreign policy, ask them what was the first world trade center attack about? That happened in 1993 - ten years before Iraq!