Re: Deportation not fair, says extremist (on benefits)
- From: "The Chozen Few" <thechosenfew@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 09:36:50 -0700
"Bob Cooper" <rcooper1@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "The Chozen Few" <thechosenfew@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Deportation not fair, says extremist (on benefits)
>>
>> by GRAEME WILSON, Daily Mail 08:31am 6th August 2005
>>
>> An extreme Muslim cleric whose family have been living on benefits in
>> Britain for 20 years says it would not be 'fair' to deport him.
>>
>> Speaking after the Prime Minister announced his clampdown,
>> father-of-seven
>> Sheik Omar Bakri said: "I have wives, children, sons-in-law,
>> daughters-in-law. It would be hard on my family if I was deported."
>>
>> Since Syrian-born Bakri settled in Britain, he and his extended family
>> have
>> raked in benefits amounting to at least £300,000.
>>
>> He is registered disabled because of an injury to his leg during his
>> childhood, and was recently supplied with a £31,000 Ford Galaxy under the
>> Motability scheme.
>>
>> Bakri, who lives in a £200,000 home in North London, tops up his
>> £250-a-week
>> benefit payments with an extra £50 incapacity allowance.
>>
>> He has praised the September 11 terrorists as 'magnificent', called
>> Israel
>> 'a cancer' and said homosexuals should be 'thrown from Big Ben'.
>>
>> In January, he declared that Britain had become a 'land of war', and
>> called
>> on Muslims to unite behind Al Qaeda. He has supported suicide bombings
>> and
>> urged his followers to kill non-Muslims ' wherever, whenever'.
>>
>> He also claimed he has no wish to stay in Britain, but his family would
>> suffer if he was deported.
>>
>> [...]
>>
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>> I get all choked up whenever I read sad stories like this.
>>
>> -- TCF
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> BTW, this is the guy who, last year, said this:
>
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> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/09/05/wosse705.xml
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> Cleric supports targeting children
> By Rajeev Syal
> (Filed: 05/09/2004)
>
> An extremist Islamic cleric based in Britain said yesterday
> that he would support hostage-taking at British schools if
> carried out by terrorists with a just cause.
>
> Omar Bakri Mohammed, the spiritual leader of the extremist
> sect al-Muhajiroun, said that holding women and children
> hostage would be a reasonable course of action for a Muslim
> who has suffered under British rule.
>
> In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Mr Mohammed
> said: "If an Iraqi Muslim carried out an attack like that in
> Britain, it would be justified because Britain has carried out
> acts of terrorism in Iraq.
>
> "As long as the Iraqi did not deliberately kill women and
> children, and they were killed in the crossfire, that would be
> okay."
>
> (...)
Yet now he says, "I have wives, children, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law. It
would be hard on my family if I was deported." I wonder if he thinks that
would be harder on them than being blown up or shot by terrorists in
England...
.
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