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Message of Hate for New Intake
Tuesday, October 30, 2001
By David Taylor
Associated Newspapers, Ltd., Home Affairs

"America can kill Muslims but they can't kill Islam. If they attack Afghanistan, they'll have to prepare the bodybags."

In packed meetings across the UK, young British Muslims are being fed a message of anti-Western hatred.

Al-Muhajiroun, which claims to have recruited hundreds of people for "holy wars" in Chechnya, Bosnia and Afghanistan, has been busy since 11 September.

The group's leader Sheik Omar Bakri Mohammed, himself under police investigation for allegedly inciting racial hatred, has been banned from all university campuses across the country amid concerns that students were being intimidated and pressured into signing up to his fundamentalist doctrine.

But the ban has not prevented Bakri and his closest followers from spreading a hardline message outside mosques and in public meetings advertised on the group's website. The Evening Standard has been to two al-Muhajiroun meetings in recent days and witnessed the persuasive way Bakri appeals to young men and women who are looking for a cause.
(More: ThisIsLondon.com News Source)
2001 © Associated Newspapers, Ltd.

Dan