BBC NEWS | UK | Hate preacher ‘knew 7/7 bomber’
An interesting headline for an interview with “Shaikh” Abdullah Faisal, the extremist Wahhabi preacher who was jailed in the UK in 2003 for incitement to murder. The fact that Faisal knew someone who carried out a bombing does not mean much unless Faisal encouraged him to do it, which he denies doing. People far more moderate than Faisal knew one of the 2003 Tel Aviv pizza parlour bombers.
After his early release, he was deported to Jamaica where, according to this document released by the Brixton “salafis”, he praised the Jamaican authorities for the warm reception they gave him and compared himself to Marcus Garvey, a (non-Muslim) Jamaican who was deported from the USA. The author of this BBC piece, however, notes that Faisal appears to hate non-Muslims and “assume that they hate Islam”, and did not make eye contact with him during the interview. Perhaps he speaks with a forked tongue; perhaps he was just glad to be out of jail and back in Jamaica when he gave interviews there.
What was more depressing, though, was the ability Faisal has to get a reception in South Africa from the local Muslim community. When he was still preaching in the UK, I remember seeing a reference to “Maulana Faisal of Jamaica” on a South African Deobandi website, so perhaps some people are still under the illusion that he is a scholar even though he certainly does not share their enthusiasm for taqleed to the Hanafi school, even though he claimed he was a Hanbali when I met him. Whether the institutions where he spoke are Deobandi ones I don’t know; the fact is that all Muslim organisations should be wary of giving platforms to extremists like this.
Apparently his next stop is Nigeria. Any country with a recent history of inter-communal strife, which Nigeria has in abundance, should not even think of letting someone with a history of hate preaching in. I have in the past said that I disagree with deporting the likes of Faisal, because they can cause much more damage in a poor country than they can here, where Faisal built up only a small following; to hear of this individual being allowed to preach in places like South Africa and Nigeria, where there has been mob violence, including rape and murder, between Muslims and Christians in some places, reinforces this somewhat.
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Even if Faisal had not been deported from the U.K. there was nothing to stop him visiting South Africa or Nigeria if their immigration departments would admit him, unless he was not allowed to travel abroad at all.
The point is that he has been, and his preaching is a matter of public record because of his criminal convictions and his published lectures. I am not saying he should not be able to travel anywhere, just that (i) the Muslim community should be more careful about whom it allows to lecture in its facilities and (ii) that countries with a history of tension between Muslims and others should not allow people like Faisal (or their equivalents in other religions) in, for obvious reasons.
Brother are you Brelwi?
No.
The over riding emotion when listening to his speechs is one of laughter . The fact that anyone takes his absurd often totally contradictory statements seriously is as bizarre as it is frighetning.
Obviously the Salafis arent people to take deen from. But here is a great expose of Feisal
http://www.salafimanhaj.com/pd.....eOfJamaica
Asalamu alaikum wa rahmatulah brother in Islam!
We met the other day in the Morrocan market stall, with my mum.
Interesting blog. I read you piece on sheikh faisal, the term “extreme wahabi” is a little harsh, dont you think? I have listened to most of his lectures, and he seems to nail it every time. For example the revival of the Islamic concept of Walaah and Barah is very important in these times. The one who denies Allah cannot be loved, and you cannot be indifferent to the Kuffar arming themselves, and their agents to fight the Muslims. The Saudi salafi talk he did is my personal favourite. And of course was one of the many reasons they wanted him behind bars.
You will find in todays climate that we are in a great situation brother. We have the ability to walk the path of the sahaba. The difference is we have all of the Quran in one hit, and we are commanded to forbid the munkar and enjoin the good. As Muslims we should not feel comfortable inthis situation of Kufr all around us. Im sure you have read milestones, another good one is “The criterion of the freinds of allah and the freinds of shaitan” by Ibn Taymiyyah. You can get it on pdf of the web. Its thick with evidencesfrom quran and the Hadith.
I also read the piece on HT. Made me laugh. brought back memories of standing outside a talk everyone with a fag on the go! “Khilafah is the answer bruv”. They remind me of the group in that hateful film I saw before i was Muslim. Life of Brian. The peoples front of Judea.
I would be interested to hear where you stand on the important matter of making the word of Allah the highest. This is the role of the Muslims in dunya, and everyone has their ideas on how and why, and its something i have been pursuing for 2 years. As the Ashari scholar said in a book i read somewhere, “I have delved into a sea of knowledge, swimming to its depths, and now i die with the aqeedah of an old woman” or something like that…. may allah save us from this.
check my blog out, havent done anything on it for ages but its got some good links to online documentaries and lectures like chomsky etc.
salamu alaikum
sa, ps,
http://www.salafimanhaj.com is run by the Saudis, they write refutations ( if you can call them that) of every sheikh that opposes their creed of kufr. They did one for Anwar Al Awlaki, basically their arguments are based on either calling you Khwaarij, casting aspersions based on the idea that only Saud can give “ijaza” lol, or just plain lies. For Sheikh Anwar, they said the Yusuf al Uliery was not a shaheed, that in fact he was killed by the Saudi police, and a criminal. He was actually collecting funds for the Afghanistan Jihad, and was martyred by the Apostate rulers of Saud, who should have been giving him money not their bullets, but its all a mater of opinion and banafit with the Munafiqeen.
The biggest enemies of the muslims these Saudis.
sa, pps..!
I just read the Salafi attack on the sheikh, and it is the usual, no evidence based argument, bit like HT…. twisting the words of the sheikh.
Also, he is fallible, so when everyone is refering to you as a muslim cleric, it is easy to then refer to yourself as one. This is one of their evidences that he is munafiq! The funny thing is that these peopl who write this are defending their own hypocracy!.
Subhanallah. The decent scholars will always be fought, it is a sunnah of allah.
ppps,
Do you realise that you have ads with links through to christian preacher websites popping up on your blog?