LONDON (Reuters) - Six British Muslim men were due to be sentenced on Friday after being found guilty of inciting acts of terrorism or raising money for terrorist purposes.
Among them was Omar Brooks, also known as Abu Izzadeen, a man who leapt to public attention in 2006 when he heckled then Home Secretary John Reid in front of television cameras.
Thursday's guilty verdicts followed a three-month trial at Kingston Crown Court in Surrey.
One of the six jumped bail while the jury was considering its verdict and is being hunted by police.
"These are extremely serious offences. The overwhelming majority of people totally reject the deeply offensive views peddled by these defendants," said John McDowall, head of the Metropolitan Police Service's Counter Terrorism Command.
"They deliberately set out to incite people to carry out terrorist acts."
The charges arise from speeches and preaching the men were involved in at London's Regents Park Mosque on November 9, 2004.
The court was told that the men had gone to the mosque to observe Ramadan. During the late afternoon and evening their speeches became progressively more inflammatory.
The men called on people to fight British and American forces in Iraq and to donate money to fund terrorism.
Police were called to the mosque in the evening by security staff who were concerned about the activities of the men and the content of their speeches.
During searches of a property following the Danish cartoon protests in central London in February 2006, police discovered video tapes of some of the speeches made by the men in the November 2004 incident.
(Reporting by Jeremy Lovell; editing by Steve Addison)
UK cant afford another bomb attack made by misunderstood young religious men. So they do what they should do. The safety of brittish citizens is most important.
This country is dying because of a lack of men, not a lack of programs.
because they call those brothers terrorists for wanting to aid afghanistan and iraq and fight the oppressors.
serious thaghut, tyrants......
They were inciting terrorism. One of them said something like 'terrorism is part and parcel of Islam' and went on to talk about how Muslims should attack and terrorise non-Muslims.
it gets me angry because
they overlook their own terrorism
And, as evidenced by your post, Muslims overlook their own terrorism as well.
The thing is that muslims wouldnt tolerate people calling to crusade in the muslim country, so you shouldnt expect that people would be allowed to call for jihad in the middle of Europe.
This country is dying because of a lack of men, not a lack of programs.
They were inciting terrorism. One of them said something like 'terrorism is part and parcel of Islam' and went on to talk about how Muslims should attack and terrorise non-Muslims.
And, as evidenced by your post, Muslims overlook their own terrorism as well.
i just got one thing to say to YOU
YOUR a FISH !
im sure you will agree
Assalamu Alaikum
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That rather depends on your point of view as to what constitutes "aid" and who are the "oppressors".
aid = help fight off those who have unjustly invaded the lands of the muslims (iraq/afghanistan/palestine)
oppressors = mostly american/british and israelli's
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My tears testify that i have a heart
yet i feel me and shaytan never part
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Seriously, how should this view be criticised properly?
not all do violent acts.
r u stereotype?
SOME do stupid violent acts saying its for the muslims, but MOST don't even support this idea.
Violence doesn't resolve nothin.
I wish bush could understand that first.
terrorism is a synonym for anything in support of muslims.. its sad.
do you really believe this?
don't you think that there really are muslims who do bad things?
granted that they are a minority, but they do indeed exist.
this is not to say that others (including governments such as my own) don't do bad things too.
do you think that muslims who do bad things shouldn't be criticized by muslims?
Last edited by snakelegs; 04-19-2008 at 12:54 AM.
Reason: corrected grammatical stupidity
each man thinks of his own fleas as gazelles
question authority
not all do violent acts.
r u stereotype?
SOME do stupid violent acts saying its for the muslims, but MOST don't even support this idea.
Violence doesn't resolve nothin.
I wish bush could understand that first.
No, not all muslims do violent acts. However I wasnt the first who so casually called them brothers. And I admit in the heat of the moment I used wrong wording there, but seriously how should the following view be criticised properly?
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