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Followers of Anwar Al-Awlaki

By Effendi | Published: November 10, 2009

Over the next few days, The Spittoon and our friends over at Harry’s Place and Focus on Islamism will be looking at some of the British Islamist organisations and activists who admire, defend, campaign for, broadcast, showcase and otherwise support the jihadist preacher, Anwar Al-Awlaki.

The list is extensive. Not least because Al-Awlaki, who is based in Yemen, is regarded as the pre-eminent English language demagogue and theoretician of violent jihadism. We intend to publish more material on the UK-based followers of Anwar Al-Awlaki over the next few weeks.

So stay tuned…

  1. Azad Ali: Civil Servant, the head of the Civil Service Islamic Society and a leading activist with the Islamic Forum Europe and the Muslim Security Forum.
  2. Cage Prisoners:  Islamist outfit masquerading as a human rights organisation. Has a long and extensive relationship with Anwar al-Awlaki.
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Awlaki Responds to Fort Hood Shooting

By Yossarian | Published: November 9, 2009

First the Spittoon brought you the news that the darling of Cageprisoners, East London Mosque, City University‘s Islamic Society and others too, Anwar al-Awlaki, had, in the past, been the imam for the Fort Hood murderer, Major Nidal Hasan. A connection which also linked him to two of the 9/11 hijackers, for whom Awlaki has been described as being a “spiritual advisor”.

Well, now Awlaki has responded to the shooting with an entry entitled Nidal Hassan Did the Right Thing (pdf) on his blog. I reproduce it below in the hope that people in various capacities in government (central and local), the media and more will become familiar with this man and never again will he be able to sully a venue in Britain.

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Fort Hood Murderer Shared Imam With 9/11 Hijackers

By Yossarian | Published: November 7, 2009

And guess who it was…

Whilst Sunny, Harry’s Place and many more speculate about what lay behind Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s murderous rampage in Fort Hood, the Huffington Post carries a piece written by Kamran Pasha, who has a Muslim soldier friend, Richard, who knew Hasan. It contains a fascinating and troubling detail.

As Richard got to know Hasan better over the next several months, he found the major to be a pious man who was at the mosque daily. But Richard also began to garner a sense of Hasan’s political views that troubled him. A black-and-white outlook on Islam and life that had no room for nuance or debate. Hasan had apparently attended a mosque led by an imam named Anwar Al-Awlaki, a Yemeni scholar whose political views Richard disagrees with.

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A Beginning

By Yossarian | Published: August 23, 2009

The Spittoon recently brought you the disturbing news that, on the 30th of this month, Kensington Town Hall was planning to host a fundraiser for Cageprisoners at which a video message from Anwar al-Awlaki would be broadcast. If you were concerned by this then you will find that today’s Observer contains some good news.

An Islamist preacher has been banned from addressing a major British fundraising event amid claims he backs attacks on UK troops and supports terrorist organisations linked to Al Qaeda.

The revelation that Anwar al-Awlaki, a Yemen-based preacher accused of advocating violent jihad, was due to speak via video link at Kensington town hall later this month, has raised fears public buildings are being used for extremism. A spokesman for Kensington and Chelsea council said: “Some of the views expressed by Mr al-Awlaki in the past are not appropriate for broadcast in [council] premises.”

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Kensington Welcomes Jihadi Preacher

By Yossarian | Published: August 11, 2009

Anwal al-Awlaki is an American extremist based in Yemen. This is his website. Note the picture of a man with AK47 which, very appropriately, Awlaki uses to represent his website. It also distributes a video of British and American troops suffering in Afghanistan, suffering which is celebrated.

On his website, Awlaki publishes a leaflet called 44 Ways of Supporting Jihad. Awlaki tells his readers that, in the current day and age, it is compulsory for them to get arms training then to go and fight jihad. And, before any apologists pop up to say I’m misrepresenting the concept of jihad in Islam, no, he is not talking about jihad  al-nafs. If it entails arms training then what Awlaki is talking about is religiously justified warfare.

This is a point Awlaki makes clear when he tells readers of his website to fight against government armies in the Muslim world.

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