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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=629 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD colSpan=3>The great thing about stuff like this, is its potential to portray religion
as a refuge for lunatics. The more of these people there are, the
more marginalised religion becomes for mainstream society.
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No proof bombers Muslims - Bakri
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Omar Bakri Mohammed says he would never co-operate with police
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- E IIMA -->Islamic cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed does not believe the London bombers were Muslims, he has told BBC News.
The UK-based Syrian-born preacher said there was no evidence four young Muslim men filmed at a station prior to the attacks were responsible for the bombs.
He condemned "any killing of innocent people here and abroad" but said he would never co-operate with police.
The cleric is facing demands for his deportation after making comments partly blaming Britain for the bombs.
The Metropolitan Police has confirmed that Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, Hasib Hussain, 18, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, and Germaine Lindsay, 19, carried out the bombings.
The force released a CCTV image of the group entering Luton station on the day of the explosions, in which they, and 52 others died.
Tabloids
In an interview with BBC News 24, Omar Bakri Mohammed said the government, the public and the Muslim community were all to blame for not doing enough to prevent the 7 July attacks.
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</TD><TD class=sibtbg>Why I condemn Osama bin Laden for? I condemn Tony Blair, I condemn George Bush. I would never condemn Osama bin Laden or any Muslims
Omar Bakri Mohammed
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And he blamed the tabloid press for "distorting" his views and those of other clerics, including Sheikh Abu Hamza, currently on trial for allegedly soliciting people to murder non-Muslims and inciting racial hatred.
But in another interview, with BBC1's 10 O'clock News, he said there was "no way" he would condemn Osama Bin Laden.
He said: "Why I condemn Osama Bin Laden for? I condemn Tony Blair, I condemn George Bush. I would never condemn Osama Bin Laden or any Muslims."
And he blamed the UK government's "evil foreign policy and the war on terror" for pushing Muslims in "the wrong direction".
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On Radio 4's Today programme, Omar Bakri Mohammed said Britons should use all political means "to make the British government realise that they create enemy, whether abroad or at home because of their own invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan".
But said he believed Islam forbade Muslims to fight the people they lived side by side with.
"To live among them, and sell with them and deal with them and trade with them and then fight them, that is completely not Islamic."
Word of God
The London-based preacher told BBC News 24 radical Muslims were "part of the solution" not part of the problem, because they were respected by Muslim youths.
By imposing restrictions on radical clerics, the government had reduced their ability to "hold back" young Muslims angry at events in places such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, the Palestinian territories and Kashmir, he said.
He distanced himself from "moderate" Muslims, who he said "cannot hold anyone back".
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</TD><TD class=sibtbg>Co-operation with the British police would never ever prevent any action like this
Omar Bakri Mohammed
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He added that he would not co-operate with the British police, even to alert them if he knew another terror attack was imminent.
"I believe co-operation with the British police would never ever prevent any action like this.
"The youth will leave us. The youth will see us, at that time, the voice, the eyes and the ears of the British government. "The way to earn the heart of the British youth is by the divine text, to say God say it and ... Mohammed say it, 'Do not attack the people you live among.' Not to tell them, 'Tony Blair say it, the law say it, don't do so.'" The cleric, who has lived in Britain for 20 years, indicated he would not resist if he were to be deported, saying: "If God destined for me to be deported, or to be imprisoned, nobody can save me."<!-- E BO -->
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4702107.stm
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as a refuge for lunatics. The more of these people there are, the
more marginalised religion becomes for mainstream society.
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No proof bombers Muslims - Bakri
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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- E IIMA -->Islamic cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed does not believe the London bombers were Muslims, he has told BBC News.
The UK-based Syrian-born preacher said there was no evidence four young Muslim men filmed at a station prior to the attacks were responsible for the bombs.
He condemned "any killing of innocent people here and abroad" but said he would never co-operate with police.
The cleric is facing demands for his deportation after making comments partly blaming Britain for the bombs.
The Metropolitan Police has confirmed that Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, Hasib Hussain, 18, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, and Germaine Lindsay, 19, carried out the bombings.
The force released a CCTV image of the group entering Luton station on the day of the explosions, in which they, and 52 others died.
Tabloids
In an interview with BBC News 24, Omar Bakri Mohammed said the government, the public and the Muslim community were all to blame for not doing enough to prevent the 7 July attacks.
<!-- S IBOX --><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=208 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD width=5>
Omar Bakri Mohammed
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And he blamed the tabloid press for "distorting" his views and those of other clerics, including Sheikh Abu Hamza, currently on trial for allegedly soliciting people to murder non-Muslims and inciting racial hatred.
But in another interview, with BBC1's 10 O'clock News, he said there was "no way" he would condemn Osama Bin Laden.
He said: "Why I condemn Osama Bin Laden for? I condemn Tony Blair, I condemn George Bush. I would never condemn Osama Bin Laden or any Muslims."
And he blamed the UK government's "evil foreign policy and the war on terror" for pushing Muslims in "the wrong direction".
<!-- S IBOX --><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=208 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD width=5>
<!-- S ILIN -->Bombers' 'ordinary lives'
<!-- E ILIN -->
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- E IBOX -->
On Radio 4's Today programme, Omar Bakri Mohammed said Britons should use all political means "to make the British government realise that they create enemy, whether abroad or at home because of their own invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan".
But said he believed Islam forbade Muslims to fight the people they lived side by side with.
"To live among them, and sell with them and deal with them and trade with them and then fight them, that is completely not Islamic."
Word of God
The London-based preacher told BBC News 24 radical Muslims were "part of the solution" not part of the problem, because they were respected by Muslim youths.
By imposing restrictions on radical clerics, the government had reduced their ability to "hold back" young Muslims angry at events in places such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, the Palestinian territories and Kashmir, he said.
He distanced himself from "moderate" Muslims, who he said "cannot hold anyone back".
<!-- S IBOX --><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=208 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD width=5>
Omar Bakri Mohammed
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- E IBOX -->
He added that he would not co-operate with the British police, even to alert them if he knew another terror attack was imminent.
"I believe co-operation with the British police would never ever prevent any action like this.
"The youth will leave us. The youth will see us, at that time, the voice, the eyes and the ears of the British government. "The way to earn the heart of the British youth is by the divine text, to say God say it and ... Mohammed say it, 'Do not attack the people you live among.' Not to tell them, 'Tony Blair say it, the law say it, don't do so.'" The cleric, who has lived in Britain for 20 years, indicated he would not resist if he were to be deported, saying: "If God destined for me to be deported, or to be imprisoned, nobody can save me."<!-- E BO -->
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4702107.stm
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I'm not sure but one of them is leaking it was a band of Quaker Terrorists.
