Al-Muhajiroun Plans a 9/11 Celebration
Al-Muhajiroun, the Islamic extremist group that Britain will not shut down, is planning another convention to glorify the September 11 mass murderers and support the global jihad: London Convention Will Celebrate 9/11.
The London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported that the extremist Islamic movement Al-Muhajiroun had announced a convention in London, titled “The Choice is in Your Hands: Either You’re with the Muslims or with the Infidels,” to mark the third anniversary of the September 11 attacks. The organization had planned a similar anniversary event a year ago, called “The Magnificent 19 [Suicide Attackers],” but had cancelled it at the last minute. The following is a summary of the report:
Al-Muhajiroun leader Omar Bakri, a Syrian residing in London, told the paper by phone that the convention would feature Al-Qa’ida “surprises,” with the screening of a never-before-shown video. He said that the convention will focus on “the anniversary of the division of the world into two great camps — the camp of faith and the camp of unbelief,” and would take place September 11, 2004 from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Bakri added: “On this day, we will talk about the ramifications of these [9/11] operations for Afghanistan and Iraq… We want the world to remember this operation … that lifted the head of the [Muslim] nation.” Bakri called 9/11 “a cry of Jihad against unbelief and oppression,” and said that the aim of remembering it is to “revive the commandment of Jihad among the youth of the [Muslim] nation.”
Bakri said that the convention will also feature a lecture about the Islamic religious roots of “slaughtering the infidels,” that is, beheading foreigners in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and that there will be films by Al-Qa’ida, the Tawhid and Jihad organization, and the Brigades of the Two Holy Places in the Arabian Peninsula, and that there will also be a film on the most recent operations in Chechnya. He added that one of the speeches, by Abu Mus’ab Al-Zarqawi, known to be Al-Qa’ida’s military commander in Iraq, will be translated.
Another lecture, he said, would be dedicated to the memory of three Al-Qa’ida commanders: Abd Al-’Aziz Al-Muqren (Abu Hajer), killed in June 2004 by Saudi security forces; his predecessor Yousef Al-Ayyiri, killed in June 2003 in a clash with Saudi security forces, and Abu Hafs Al-Masri, a top Al-Qa’ida military officer, killed in the U.S. attack on Kandahar in late 2001.
According to Bakri, the anticipated criticism of Al-Muhajiroun for the organization’s insistence on memorializing 9/11 will be “a simple sacrifice in comparison with what we must actually do — that is, support the Jihad led by bin Laden.”