Posted on 04/29/2009 5:41:29 PM PDT by forkinsocket
Few outsiders took much notice of the bookshop whose shabby frontage and fading paint blended seamlessly into the rundown Leeds suburb.
They were not to know that behind its door lay an incubating chamber breeding believers in a virulent jihadist ideology that one day would bring mass murder to London.
The shop on Beeston Hill was called Iqra, Arabic for “recite”. It was the first word of the Koran as revealed to the Prophet.
When the shop was opened in 2000 by “a dedicated core of brothers and sisters who have taken it upon themselves to propagate the message of Islam”, Iqra was welcomed by many local Muslims. Too many of their children were going astray, lured by the corrupting decadence – alcohol, drugs, clubs, sex – of Western society and alienated from their parents’ customs and values.
Their family roots may have lain in the Mirpur region of Kashmir, in Sylhet, the tea capital of Bangladesh, or in rural Punjab, Pakistan, but they had Yorkshire accents. The mosque’s recently imported imam, communicating solely in Urdu, could not connect with their lives.
So when a group of bright young Beeston Muslims, some of them youth workers, decided to open Iqra – with its English books, DVDs and classes – it was hoped that a lost generation might be returned to the fold. The bookshop did turn some away from drugs and petty crime. Yet its main players had no intention of steering young minds towards the “folk Islam” that their parents had carried from South Asia.
The six trustees of Iqra, listed on a declaration form sent to the Charity Commission in 2002, included Mohammad Sidique Khan, who in 2005 would be the leader of the July 7 suicide bombers.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Muhammed was not a prophet and the Koran is not a holy book.
At best, Islam is a form of Satanic Theism.
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“Iqra” would be my nomination for the 2009 submissions for the latest addition to an ever lengthening list of famous “FR-isms” that include...
“This is Hugh!”
“This is series!”
“Stuned Beebers”
“teh”
“The huge manatee”
et al......
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