Omar Bakri Begs Britain for Help
Charles Johnson
Fri Jul 21, 2006 at 8:16 am PDT • Views: 166
The sheer gall of this loathsome creature is beyond imagining, begging for help from the country he hates and wants to destroy: Barred Islamist preacher refused evacuation from Lebanon.
LONDON (AFP) - An Islamist preacher barred from Britain for his radical views has said that he had tried to join the British evacuation from Lebanon but had been turned away.
Omar Bakri Mohammed, speaking from Beirut, said he had been prevented from boarding a naval warship evacuating Britons from the chaos because he did not have a British passport.
Bakri, who lived in London until his exile last August, said he had asked British authorities to rescue him from the violence in Lebanon for the sake of his family, who are still living in Britain.
“I know controversy surrounds all the news about me, I am myself accepting my destiny. But I have the right like anybody else to look for safety,” Bakri told Sky News television after being turned away from the ship on Thursday.
The preacher claimed he had written to the British embassy, asking to be allowed back on humanitarian grounds. “I applied for them to give me a visitor’s visa, not to appeal against the decision to withdraw my indefinite leave to stay in the UK,” he told BBC radio by mobile telephone from the Lebanese capital.
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