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Jihad/martyrdom suicide bomber in Syria was driver for jihad preacher Omar Bakri in UK

Feb 14, 2014 8:36 am By Robert Spencer

MajeedBut wait! His family said that he had “never shown any signs of extremism”! Surely they weren’t lying, were they? Inconceivable! When they were asked if Majeed was an “extremist,” they probably didn’t think of his association with Omar Bakri — they probably thought they were being asked if he celebrated Valentine’s Day.

Note also that Bakri was ultimately barred from Britain because his presence was “not conducive to the public good.” That is the same language that the British government used in barring Pamela Geller and me. So a preacher of hatred and violence is now equivalent to those who work to resist that hatred and violence. The British government is absolutely insane.

“British jihadist who died driving truck full of explosives into Syrian prison is revealed to be former driver for hate cleric Omar Bakri as footage of his suicide assault emerges,” by Chris Greenwood, Emine Sinmaz, Inderdeep Bains and Dan Bloom for the Daily Mail, February 13:

The British father-of-three who blew himself up at a Syrian jail drove hate preacher Omar Bakri to his local mosque in Sussex twice a week, it has been revealed.

Bakri – a co-founder of the Al-Muhajiroun hate group who was banned from Britain in 2005 – said 41-year-old Abdul Waheed Majeed was a ‘very dear brother’.

He told the Evening Standard the jihadist – who killed dozens of Syrians in the attack last week – would pick him up twice a week from the train station in Crawley, West Sussex, and drive him to the local mosque before dropping him 60 miles away in Edmonton, north London.

The revelation comes after a shocking video emerged of the moment Britain’s first suicide bomber in Syria detonated his truck full of explosives outside the walls of the jail in Aleppo.

Bakri said he had been good friends with Majeed from 1996 until 2004, but then lost contact with him.

A year later Bakri, one of the country’s most well-known hate preachers, was barred from returning to Britain after the then home secretary Charles Clarke ruled his presence was ‘not conducive to the public good’.

Speaking from his flat in the Libyan capital Tripoli, he told the Standard Majeed was a good student and an active member of Al-Muhajiroun and described last week’s suicide attack as a ‘noble’ act against Syrian oppression.

‘He used to collect me from Crawley railway station and take me to the local community centre and to the mosque twice a week for me to deliver my lectures,’ he said.

He added Majeed was ‘always at hand to help people’, ‘wanted to know what it was to be a good Muslim’ and was a devoted ‘family man’ despite being dedicated to his extreme beliefs.

The revelation comes after the release of a four-minute clip on LiveLeak which is believed to show the suicide bombing Majeed.

Laden with home-made plates of armour akin to the film Mad Max, the truck is shown driving at high speed towards the jail in Aleppo before detonating in a huge explosion which killed Majeed and dozens of Syrians.

Rebels initially claimed up to 300 inmates were able to escape in the firefight, although the Syrian government denied this.

Unconfirmed reports suggested the bombing may have failed in its aim to allow rebels to capture the prison because the truck exploded just short of the jail’s walls.

The video was reportedly shot by fighters with the al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra rebel group and begins with footage of the truck, followed by shots of fighters exchanging heavy fire.

The rebel group said the suicide bomber was called Abu Suleiman al-Britani, a pseudonym indicating his British origins….

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  1. KrazyKafir says

    Feb 14, 2014 at 8:41 am

    “The British government is absolutely insane.”

    One has to resort to insanity in order to protect the biggest liberal lie ever perpetrated on the human race: all cultures are equal.

    • panther says

      Feb 14, 2014 at 2:43 pm

      If cultures & religions were equal (as propagated by leftist & others) then why didn’t they developed and flourish equally??? Why Christian based western culture is prosperous & islam based middle east despite their petro wealth & other Islamic countries are impoverished??? Why these mohammedans all want to come to western countries???

      • KrazyKafir says

        Feb 14, 2014 at 3:32 pm

        Very true.

      • Jan says

        Feb 15, 2014 at 3:37 am

        ”If cultures & religions were equal (as propagated by leftist & others) then why didn’t they developed and flourish equally??? Why Christian based western culture is prosperous & islam based middle east despite their petro wealth & other Islamic countries are impoverished???”

        Because wicked white Christian crusaders and colonialists have deliberately stifled and prevented the glorious religion of islam, of course, and exploited all the wealth of the Middle East ! ! Come on, panther, don’t you know **anything** ??

        ”Why these mohammedans all want to come to western countries???”

        Some do because they consciously want to subvert the West, and bring us to our knees, submitting to islam.

        Some I think genuinely wanted to escape the horrors and poverty of the countries they’ve left. but islam inculcates such malevolent stupidity and arrogance in its adherents, they’re incapable of appreciating and being grateful for what they’ve been offered/given, and instead strut around demanding accommodation for their vile cult, and wanting to turn the West into a copy of their own vile Islamic hellholes; but this time of course, with plenty of stupid kufr to work and keep supplying them with **benefits**.

    • Bettina says

      Feb 15, 2014 at 5:38 pm

      I’m a liberal and have never believed that all cultures are equal.
      Born in Morocco, I was raised to know that we, Westerners, possessed far better values than the Moroccan populace did, and should avoid contact with them for fear of cultural infection. We avoided social and inter-personal interaction with the Arabs — except when one of our domestics rose so high above the masses, with her generous heart and singing spirit, that we ached to leave her behind when, as Jews, we needed to leave. We still love Fatima dearly, thru the distance and the years.

    • Betty says

      Feb 15, 2014 at 5:56 pm

      you got to be kidding

  2. London Jim says

    Feb 14, 2014 at 9:13 am

    And none of his family knew nuffin ? Yeah, right.

  3. mortimer says

    Feb 14, 2014 at 9:31 am

    Moderate? Like the ‘moderates’ in this video:

  4. mortimer says

    Feb 14, 2014 at 9:33 am

  5. tpellow says

    Feb 14, 2014 at 2:41 pm

    And more information on yet another Islamic jihadist, who used Britain as a base, and has been killed in Syria:-

    “Anil Khalil Raoufi killed in Syria ‘was jihadist'”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-26181501

    “Liverpool Uni student killed in Syria fighting”

    “Anil Khalil Raoufi studied mechanical engineering.”

    http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-university-student-anil-khalil-6708859

  6. dumbledoresarmy says

    Feb 14, 2014 at 5:35 pm

    I wonder whether someone, somewhere, in the depths of MI5 is keeping score? Scratching names off a list, one by one, as dangerous mohammedan mobsters deport themselves to Syria, leap into the fray screaming allahu akbar, and either blow themselves up or get blown away by others.

    Every one of these mobsters who takes himself off from the UK to Syria and explodes himself, or gets taken out by rival jihadis or Assad’s army or whoever, is one less dangerous mohammedan mobster for British infidels to worry about.

    • Bill C. says

      Feb 14, 2014 at 11:31 pm

      Re: MI5 comment…

      One can only hope. I damn well know the F.B.I. isn’t.

  7. dumbledoresarmy says

    Feb 14, 2014 at 5:38 pm

    From the article – “Bakri, one of the country’s most well-known hate preachers, was barred from returning to Britain after the then home secretary Charles Clarke ruled his presence was ‘not conducive to the public good’.”

    Time for the current home secretary, Theresa May, to wake up and realize that *any* number of mohammedans present in the UK are “not conducive to the public good”.

  8. tpellow says

    Feb 14, 2014 at 6:12 pm

    The ‘left’-Islamic jihad, political alliance-

    “‘GUARDIAN’ CONTRIBUTOR LAUDS BRITISH SUICIDE BOMBER’S ‘HEROISM’”

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2014/02/14/Guardian-contributors-and-their-uneducated-outrage

  9. gravenimage says

    Feb 15, 2014 at 9:41 pm

    Jihad/Martyrdom bomber in Syria was driver for jihad preacher Omar Bakri in UK
    …………………………….

    What??? He *already had ties to Jihad terrorists*??? I’m shocked—shocked, I tells ya…sarc/off

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