Omar Bakri: Blair’s to Blame
Charles Johnson
Mon May 2, 2005 at 3:07 pm PDT • Views: 158
Dubai’s Gulf News interviews former Al-Muhajiroun freakazoid Omar Bakri Mohammad, who says that Tony Blair will be to blame if Islamic terrorists attack Britain: Cleric: Blair’s policies creating militants. (Hat tip: K.)
London : An Islamic cleric who admits to supporting Al Qaida has warned that thousands of Muslims could take up arms against the British Government.
Shaikh Omar Bakri Mohammad told Gulf News Prime Minister Tony Blair’s policies were creating extremists and possible terrorists throughout the country.
“From my own experience I do not believe anybody in the UK is planning any action at all … but there is the potential to have a few thousand if the government continues with its own policies of terrifying [the Muslim community].
”[The government is] pressuring the youth to become radical, extremist, fundamentalist, and now [the youth] enjoy the term terrorist it’s something good.”
Lest you be tempted to think that the Shaikh’s views are held by more than the tiniest of tiny minorities, the Gulf News rushes to reassure:
His views inhabit the extreme fringes of Britain’s Islamic community and they are shunned by the overwhelming majority of Muslims in Britain.
Whew. That’s a relief.
Frank says: