Tag Archives: Anwar al-Awlaki

More Idiocy from Islamophobia Watch

By Abdul Hamid al Manchesteri | Published: January 3, 2010
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 [...]
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Promoting Jihad in the UK

By Abdul Hamid al Manchesteri | Published: December 2, 2009
Via Hudson, a fine article by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens on how the ideology of Anwar al-Awlaki has been and promoted in the UK by, amongst others, Cage Prisoners and Mohammed Hamid AKA ‘Osama bin London’. Here is a video of Muhammed Hamid at one of his jihad training camps: In the United States, pro al-Qaeda preacher Anwar al-Awlaki [...]
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Guess who’s back

By Yossarian | Published: November 19, 2009
In the category of exceedingly unwelcome news, Anwar al-Awlaki appears to be back and spreading his hatred on the Islamic Awakening forum, which is popular with extremists. Islamic Awakening user AbuSulaiman has recently posted this on the forum: new Fatwa from Sh. Anwar From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:32 PM subject: Fwd: Fwd: [...]
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Anwar al-Awlaki and his British Friends

By Faisal | Published: November 17, 2009
A shortened version of this article has been published on Comment is Free **** It is now clear US Army Major Nidal Hasan had a series of connections to the Islamist cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki . For those of us who have studied, with increasing concern, the extreme teachings of this cleric, this tragedy is the inevitable consequence [...]
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Anwar al-Awlaki: “Maybe Nidal was affected by one of my lectures”

By Yossarian | Published: November 16, 2009
Unfortunately for those who previously backed Awlaki (but say that he must have recently changed from being a fluffy friend of all to fire-breathing jihadist preacher without anybody noticing), in his first interview since the Fort Hood attacks, the Yemeni-American preacher has revealed that it was under his influence that Major Nidal Malik Hasan was [...]
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Osama Saeed Goes on the Defensive

By Guest | Published: November 16, 2009
This is a cross post by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens **** On his blog, Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Glasgow Central, Osama Saeed, seems to have taken issue with a pamphlet I wrote last week, which cites his 2006 support for pro al-Qaeda preacher Anwar al-Awlaki. Firstly, this should be put into some kind of perspective: if a [...]
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Is the head of the Civil Service Islamic Society lying about Anwar al-Awlaki?

By Guest | Published: November 12, 2009
This is a guest post by Al-Qanaas Al-Masri **** The head of the Civil Service Islamic Society, Azad Ali, has today sought to clarify his long-standing support for Anwar Awlaki, the pro-jihadi preacher who apparently inspired, and possibly orchestrated, the recent Fort Hood shootings in the US. The Times has quoted Ali as saying of Awlaki’s views: [...]
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Anwar al-Awlaki And His Online Supporters

By Yossarian | Published: November 12, 2009
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 [...]
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Cage Prisoners – Awlaki’s British supporters

By Guest | Published: November 11, 2009
This is a guest post by Shiraz Maher. It is part 2 of the investigation that Standpoint, Harry’s Place and the Spittoon is conducting into the British supporters of Sheikh Anwar al-Awlaki. Full details here. **** Today we focus on Cage Prisoners which likes presents itself as a human rights organisation campaigning on behalf of Muslim [...]
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Another Connection Between Awlaki and Major Nidal Malik Hasan

By Yossarian | Published: November 10, 2009
They are both, apparently, a tad sex-starved. But where Hasan stuck to legal strip-joints, Awlaki prefers prostitutes. Yet more evidence of the links between them? Probably not, but it’s always worth noting the dubious personal morality of the ostentatiously pious.
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