It has been widely reported that, since his disgusting statement in support of Major Hasan’s actions in Fort Hood, the blog belonging to Anwar al-Awlaki has been taken down. Who by is still unclear, but one detail has gone unreported. Yesterday, this message was posted:
website coming back online
Assaalmu’alaykum all
The website will be back to normal with a few days time.
If it does come back online this would be an unfortunate development. However, with Awlaki on the run in Yemen, it is most likely that this message was posted by an anonymous supporter, not the man himself. Anyway now his Facebook page is also down we at the Spittoon thought we’d highlight a few people who probably thought this would protect them from being busted as Awlaki supporters on Facebook.
Yvonne Ridley is also a fan of herself. Narcissist.
The Islamic Society for the University of London Union also likes Anwar, apparently.
No surprise that Moazzam Begg of Cageprisoners, an organisation which is rather keen on Awlaki, should be a fan
And Mozzam's colleague at Cageprisoners, Maryam Hassan. She also likes Sayyid Qutb, the philosopher of militant Islamism.
No doubt they will try to tell us that they had no idea Awlaki was a vicious jihadist preacher. This doesn’t really wash. He may have originally developed a reputation for his biographies of the Sahabah, but he’s not been propagating moderate ideas for nigh-on seven years.