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UK: Former mosque chairman linked to DVD glorifying suicide bombing

Jul 12, 2015 2:46 pm By Robert Spencer

suicide bombingThe Qur’an guarantees Paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for Allah (9:111). The British political elites will never, ever admit that much of what they consider to be “extremist,” and that they assume most Muslims in Britain reject, is actually established doctrine of mainstream Islam that Muslims reject only at risk of being declared apostates and heretics.

“Mosque linked to children’s suicide bombing DVD: Former chairman owned company that distributed chilling singalong film that glorified terror,” by Ollie Gillman, MailOnline, July 11, 2015:

The former chairman of the biggest mosque in Leeds owned a company linked to a DVD that glorified suicide bombings targeting Israelis.

The singalong video showed a young girl vowing to follow the same path in life as her mother, shown blowing herself up at an army checkpoint.

A bookshop owned by Firas al-Rawi, the ex-chairman of Leeds Grand Mosque, was identified as the ‘sole UK distributor’ on the DVD’s cover.

The Syrian, who has since moved to Kuwait from Britain, is understood to have been arrested on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred after the video emerged in late 2007, The Times reported.

What race is jihad suicide bombing? I keep forgetting.

Al-Rawi, 40, ran Abrar bookshop in Leeds in 2007 and was the sole owner of import company Abrar International.

The Arabic DVD, which has English subtitles, was purchased by a child at a mosque in Bradford in 2007. Their grandfather passed it on to his local MP, Tory Philip Davies.

A copy was then given to the police’s North East Counter Terrorism Unit, leading to al-Rawi’s arrest.

He was bailed two months later and the Crown Prosecution Service took the decision not to charge him because there was insufficient evidence of wrongdoing.

In the DVD an Arab woman is seen playing with her two children. She then makes a bomb out of sticks of dynamite in the bedroom as her young daughter enters.

The woman leaves home with dynamite tucked into her dress and blows herself up after being challenged by soldiers, leaving her children and husband to learn of her death on TV.

To the sounds of haunting music there are graveyard scenes, along with pictures of the dead bomber looking serene and dressed in white.

Her daughter finds a stick of dynamite in her mother’s wardrobe. The girl, aged about five or six, turns to the camera with the subtitles: ‘My love will not be by words. I will follow my mother’s steps.’

The second song, entitled Tear, has a catchy chorus of children chanting a song set to images of women and children crying and flames from explosions.

Over scenes of men fighting and throwing grenades, a young Arab girl sings: ‘Daddy return to us, We want you beside us, Fear occupied our hearts, And there is no one with us, Oh Allah! You are our Saviour…’

Local Muslims also raised fears that Leeds Grand Mosque has been ‘hijacked by the Muslim Brotherhood against the will of the congregation’.

They told The Times that ‘extremists’ from Iraq, Syria and Egypt had sidelined moderate Muslims at the mosque.

Hamas – closely linked to the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine – has launched numerous suicide bomb attacks in Israel.

Leeds Grand Mosque said it was not dominated by extremists and was run ‘legitimately and according to best practice’.

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  1. jayell says

    Jul 12, 2015 at 3:10 pm

    “Al-Rawi, 40, ran Abrar bookshop in Leeds in 2007….The Arabic DVD (glorifying suicide bombing), which has English subtitles, was purchased by a child at a mosque in Bradford in 2007…..A copy was then given to the police’s North East Counter Terrorism Unit, leading to al-Rawi’s arrest…..He was bailed two months later and the Crown Prosecution Service took the decision not to charge him because there was insufficient evidence of wrongdoing…..” So you can be dragged to court for quoting Churchill criticisiing Islam, you can be put inside for having child porn pictures on your computer or dealing in child porn, but dealing in this sort of thing, including selling it to children, is not wrong. Right, OK……

    • jayell says

      Jul 12, 2015 at 3:19 pm

      By the way, have people seen the story in the UK Sunday Telegraph and elsewhere, about about the jihad-mongering hate preacher, operating under pseudonym, who worked for the UK government by day in some kind of ‘advisory’ role (and even made it to management level in the UK Civil Service) but spent the rest of his time lecturing in schools, mosques and universities, promoting jihadi violence, etc.? They got him when he appeared on TV, but he had access to all sorts of sensitive stuff before that. WHAT A JOKE!!!!

  2. Charli Main says

    Jul 12, 2015 at 3:14 pm

    The filth and depravity of islam is a bottomless pit. There is no sick, evil and twisted perversion that islam does not approve or condone.
    To be expected, given that islam was invented by an insane sociopath to legitimise his violent and criminal behaviour.

  3. Georg says

    Jul 12, 2015 at 3:54 pm

    And are we to suppose he was radicalized online as well?

  4. Angemon says

    Jul 12, 2015 at 5:18 pm

    Local Muslims also raised fears that Leeds Grand Mosque has been ‘hijacked by the Muslim Brotherhood against the will of the congregation’.

    Huh, what? “Raised fears” about a “hijacking against their will”? On what mangled logic is that possible? Did the congregation kept attending the prayer sessions while thinking to themselves “Gee, this sounds like that hijack of islam we keep hearing about and that I want no part of”? Sounds to me like they knew what was going on and are simply trying to excuse themselves the best they can…

    Leeds Grand Mosque said it was not dominated by extremists and was run ‘legitimately and according to best practice’.

    Translation: they are undoubtedly run by “extremists”.

    • Huck Folder says

      Jul 12, 2015 at 9:35 pm

      “…run ‘legitimately and according to best practice’.”

      Heads up EVERYONE. The ENTIRE meaning/content/value/worth of a word or statement is embodied in its meaning in the language used, English here.

      But the meanings by these users, are in their arabic taqiyya hearts.
      And actually not taqiyya in any way to them. They absolutely believe
      that the ‘mosque’ is their barracks, and the congregants their
      conquering army of foot soldiers.

      So: ‘legitimately’ mohammedan – imams (officer corps)
      both train and instill the messages of hate from The BoH™.

      The ‘best practice’ of mo is deception/hudna/play nice when
      there are only a few thousand in a country, but when there are
      hundreds of thousands, it’s DEMAND, DEMAND, DEMAND.

      And NEVER EVER forget that at the nerve center of the fifth column
      which is islam in that country, (which is still Dar Al-Harb,) lurk the moles;
      the National Association of Moslem Police, over 2,000 strong.

      Silently working their way up the ranks, or crying foul if not represented,
      they can insidiously ‘suggest’ white gloves to handle The BoH™ ,
      shoes off when entering their ‘barracks’, (even in ‘hot pursuit?)
      no dogs (reserve those for the indigenes!), and put other
      seemingly reasonable stumbling blocks in the path of investigations.

      Just imagine what they could do as a Chief Constable somewhere.

  5. mortimer says

    Jul 12, 2015 at 11:39 pm

    That video is ‘soliciting murder’…but the Koran also solicits murder…normative Islam, rather than an aberration.

    There’s the problem: We are denying Muslims their freedom of religion when tell them not to commit jihad-murder-terrorism.

  6. Baucent says

    Jul 13, 2015 at 6:26 am

    These disgusting propaganda videos are common in the “Palestinian” territory glorifying “homicide bombers” and we can reasonably expect that they are required viewing in schools and child care centers in areas controlled by ISIS. Another reason why this Islamic Terror is not going away any time soon.

  7. mortimer says

    Jul 13, 2015 at 1:02 pm

    Questions for all our politicians who say “NOTHING TO DO WITH ISLAM?”

    -Why is it that so many mullahs and mosque leaders are secret supporters of jihad?
    -Why is it that so many mullahs and mosque leaders deny supporting jihad in public and support it secretly?
    -Why is it that so many mullahs and mosque leaders are lying to Westerners about jihad and doing it on a regular, even daily basis?
    -Could it be that jihad is a ‘secret’, but standard doctrine of Islam?

  8. Terkel says

    Jul 14, 2015 at 6:28 am

    Islam and its brainwashed adherents are a gift to different groups, all of which have one thing in common. They enjoy antagonising the establishment. That’s how Islam succeeds in its aim to destroy our societies from within. The ones who want its influence neutralised once and for all, not only have to battle its dangerous insidiousness, but also waste valuable time getting past the barricades built to defend it by insipid dumb liberals, governments with agendas, self-haters and other loons.

    In the UK nobody is prevented from learning what the dangers of Islam are, but trying to convince our inept government that Muslims are not friendly neighbours but are waiting patiently for the nod to begin killing us, is an uphill struggle. I wrote to my useless MP countless times, sent him verifiable evidence, even met with him – only to be patronised and called racist and alarmist.

    The good news is that thanks to the blogosphere and social media, one of the few ways we in the UK can speak the truth, people seem to be waking up. Below the line comments rarely vary, people are getting more and more angry about the cowardice of the government in dealing with the Muslim fifth column. I’ve no doubt we’ll get there in the end, but what the cost will be frightens me.

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