Meanwhile over at Idiotphobia Watch, where comments are disallowed, Robert Pitt refers to a Telegraph article and concludes with this unforgivably stupid howler:
And this was accompanied by another article, about Anwar al-Awlaki, entitled “Detroit bomber’s mentor continues to influence British mosques and universities” – which would seem a bit unlikely if you accept the Yemeni government’s claim that he was killed in a recent air strike.
The same article that Pitt cites also contains a quote from Yemen’s deputy prime minister for defence and security affairs, Rashad Mohammed al-Alimi, in this passage:
It had been thought the extremist cleric had been killed in a Christmas Eve air strike on the house, in the southeastern Yemen province of Shabwa, but Mr al-Alimi said [al-Awlaki] is believed to be still alive.
Pitt was too busy trying to score cheap “Islamophobia” points to read the facts.
But more importantly, even if al-Awlaki were dead, there are still copious amounts of his jihadi sermons, both printed and on DVD and YouTube that can still be used as material for the radicalisation of would-be jihadis. Al-Awlaki was, by his own admission, influenced by Seyyid Qutb long after the author of “Milestones” had gone to claim his 72 houris in paradise. And in any case, making a martyr of al-Awlaki would improve his jihadi-value amongst the Islamists far beyond what it already is now.
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Bob Pitt doesn’t give a rat’s ass about Muslims or Islamaphobia. He is disgracefully and dispicably using it for his own narrow, wierd and wonderful political agenda. Whatever the hell that is.
Bob Pitt used to be a member of the Workers Revolutionary Party. Pitt later worked as a researcher in the office of the then Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone.
Pitt remains wedded to all things Trotskyist and appalling, as even a brief scan of the links pages on his moribund What Next website will reveal:
http://www.whatnextjournal.co.uk/Index.htm