Islamic website tied to MP's stabbing resurfaces under new name

Telegraph ^ | 05 Dec 2010 | Philip Sherwell

[george76]

A radical US-based Islamic website shut down last month after allegedly helping to inspire the stabbing of a Labour MP has resurfaced with a new name.

Abdullah Muhammad, a founder of both sites, told The Daily Telegraph that IslamPolicy.com was the direct successor to RevolutionMuslim.com which was closed amid the furore over its role in the attack on Stephen Timms, MP for East Ham.

US counter-terrorism officials say that at least a third of the more than 50 domestic terror suspects arrested in America in the last year had ties to RevolutionMuslim, an English-language site aimed at Muslims in the West.

They trace its roots to a network of sites run by the now banned al-Muhajiroun group in Britain. "It is playing an important role in the export to the US of the British disease of home-grown terror by radicalised young Muslims," a US official said.

"IslamPolicy will continue with the work of RevolutionMuslim," Mr Muhammad, a white American convert to Islam, said during an interview in which he called the Sept 11 terror attacks "justified violence".

[Cacique]

At some point of the state does not intervene to prosecute these people you will see the rise of vigilante death squads as have arisen in south america from time to time when society cannot control such criminal activity.

[SamuraiScot]

Abdullah Muhammad, a founder of both sites, told The Daily Telegraph that IslamPolicy.com was the direct successor to RevolutionMuslim.com which was closed amid the furore over its role in the attack on Stephen Timms, MP for East Ham.

There seems to be a problem of focus here. Web sites don't kill people . . . etc. Why bother to shut down a series of hard-to-track-down Web sites when you can shut down the lunatic who started them—with a few grains of lead?