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Stockholm bomber's mosque website carries links to extremist preacher
Topic Started: Dec 19 2010, 08:41 AM (52 Views)
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The website of the British mosque where the Stockholm bomber worshipped carries links to comments used to justify suicide attacks, and material expounding antisemitism and homophobia.

Preachers at the Luton Islamic Centre told last week how they had tackled Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, 28, the suicide bomber who blew himself up in Stockholm last weekend, over his extremist views.

However, the centre's website carries a link to a lecture by Dr Bilal Philips, a Muslim preacher who was barred from entering Britain by the home secretary in July because of his extremist views.

Philips's speech includes a passage during which he says that a person who kills him or herself is motivated by different instincts to those of a suicide bomber. "When you look at the mind of the suicide bomber, it's a different intention altogether," he says. Suicide is generally considered to be against Islamic law.

Philips added that the suicide bomber had made a military decision based on the defences of the enemy. He says: "The [enemy] is either too heavily armed, or they don't have the type of equipment that can deal with it, so the only other option they have is to try to get some people amongst them and then explode the charges that they have to try to destroy the equipment and to save the lives of their comrades.

"So this is not really considered to be suicide in the true sense. This is a military action and human lives are sacrificed in that military action. This is really the bottom line for it and that's how we should look at it."

Abdaly, who showed up at the Luton mosque in 2007, blew himself up in a busy shopping street in Stockholm last Saturday after sending an email urging Muslims to avenge the deaths of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. Swedish police are investigating the theory that one of several devices that he was carrying went off prematurely and are also exploring the possibility that he was part of a wider cell.

Qadeer Baksh, chairman of the Luton Islamic Centre, said Philips had made some "errors" in his speech. "He's talking about a military operation; he's made an error by calling it suicide bombing. He's talking about troops, not innocent people," he said.

Baksh added that it was also wrong to encourage suicide. "The enemy have to kill him, he cannot kill himself by his own hands. That is an error. He's called it suicide bombing but it's not suicide bombing, it's a military tactic. I will definitely take [the website link] down immediately. I'm glad you brought that to my attention," he added.

However Haras Rafiq, director of Centri, an organisation that specialises in countering extremism, said: "I do not blame the Luton Islamic Centre for the terrorist attacks in Stockholm but how on earth were they going to prevent al-Abdaly from blowing himself up when messages on their own website justify the concept of suicide bombing as an operational military tactic?"

Other contentious material found on the Luton Islamic Centre's site includes one publication on its website last week called "gay history and gay pride" that expounded homophobic views such as "sodomy is one of the most repulsive acts, even observed among beasts", and said homosexuals should be executed.




http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/19/abdaly-luton-mosque-stockholm-bomber
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