Leprechaun jihad from the Belfast Telegraph, with thanks to Ruth King:
Anjem Choudary, who has close links to the infamous hate preacher, Omar Bakri Mohammed, said the use of Shannon Airport as a stop-off for US warplanes justifies Ireland being attacked.
The solicitor (38) said: “If your government wants to support the atrocities in Afghanistan they can expect some repercussions,” and added that Ireland had “opened itself” to attacks from radical Muslims linked to al-Qa’ida.
Sounds like a threat to me.
Choudary even said that terrorists have the right to kill indiscriminately since American bombers did not pick and choose military targets in Iraq.
CONDEMNING
He said he was “not in the business” of condemning terrorist attacks in Britain and Ireland and added: “What you need to do is you need to be responsible and you need to look after your national security.
“If people slipped into Ireland from Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere, where the Irish are standing side by side with the butcher of Baghdad, George Bush, then they would have a legitimacy for that type of thing.
“That’s not my personal opinion but your asking me what it says in the Koran.”
Choudary believes that Ireland has risked being targeted by opening up Shannon to planes transporting US troops to Iraq.
“Obviously if Ireland is allowing their land to be used for planes to fly and to bomb Muslims, then those Muslims will obviously have a right to retaliate, it goes without saying.”
He also criticises Irish Muslims, saying they’ve been “stripped of their Islamic personality through secular education. On the one hand they’re not willing to speak up and on the other hand they’re intimidated into being docile.”