Posted on 11/12/2005 5:27:16 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
AL-QAEDA has threatened the Queen by naming her as “one of the severest enemies of Islam” in a video message to justify the July bombings in London. The warning has been passed by MI5 to the Queen’s protection team after it obtained the unexpurgated version of a video issued by Al-Qaeda after the 7/7 attacks. Parts of it were broadcast on Al-Jazeera, the Arabic satellite channel.
In the video, Ayman al- Zawahiri, second-in-command to Osama Bin Laden, targets the Queen as ultimately responsible for Britain’s “crusader laws” and denounces her as an enemy of Muslims.
A senior Whitehall official said: “MI5 is aware that there are some pieces of that video that have not been aired. They are aware of the bit of al- Zawahiri talking about the Queen and they have notified the relevant authorities.”
The Sunday Times has obtained the full 27-minute video, which is circulating on secure jihadist websites in the Middle East used to recruit and inflame prospective terrorists. In Britain it has been posted by Muhammad al-Massari, the London-based Saudi extremist, on his website Tajdeed.
It also contains inflammatory material from Mohammad Sidique Khan, ringleader of the London bombings which killed 52 commuters. He is urging Muslims to take part in jihad and seek martyrdom.
Khan, 30, incites British Muslims to ignore the moderate Islamic leaders who want integration with British society.
“Our so-called scholars of today,” he said, “are content with their Toyotas and semi- detached houses” in their desire for integration. The message is believed to be the first of its kind in which a British suicide bomber calls on fellow UK Muslims to follow his example.
The attack by al-Zawahiri prompted intelligence officers to alert Buckingham Palace that the Queen had become a specific target of Al-Qaeda. Her security had already been upgraded after September 11, 2001.
In the video al-Zawahiri not only labels the Queen as one of Islam’s “severest enemies” but also sends a warning shot to British Islamic leaders who “work for the pleasure of Elizabeth, the head of the Church of England”.
He said those who followed her were saying: “We are British citizens, subject to Britain’s crusader laws, and we are proud of our submission . . . to Elizabeth, head of the Church of England.”
In a possible reference to the role of the Muslim Council of Britain, which had issued instructions to mosques to inform on potential terrorists, he criticised “those who issue fatwas, according to the school of thought of the head of the Church of England”.
In the previously unseen footage, Khan, from Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, said: “It is very clear, brothers and sisters, that the path of jihad and the desire for martyrdom is embedded in the holy prophet and his beloved companions.
“By preparing ourselves for this kind of work, we are guaranteeing ourselves for paradise and gaining the pleasure of Allah.
“And by turning our back on this work, we are guaranteeing ourselves humiliation and the anger of Allah. Jihad is an obligation on every single one of us, men and women.”
Khan’s message was condemned by Sir Iqbal Sacranie, the Muslim Council’s secretary-general, as a “perverse interpretation of Islam”.
“The victims of Sidique Khan were innocent people . . . It’s clearly inciteful. It’s trying to incite people to commit murder,” he said.
Elizabeth was born in 1926. The London Blitz was in 1940. She was only 14 at the time of the Blitz so was way too young, and at no time during WWII did she ever drive an ambulance, nor did any other member of the Royal Family.
[Good Night, Mr. Holmes.]
Would even that extreme measure appease the Dianaphiles?
Rhetorical question. Diana Circle and other dianaphiles need not respond. LOL
god save the queen
and the dishy prince william mmmmmmm
Security is supposed to have been improved. There was even an incident where a member of the press signed on as a footman ... frightening. And, yes, I do care ... the Brits have always been our only reliable ally.
She's doing NOTHING! As only a figurehead, the Queen has no power and this is something that the idiot Muslim terrorists either don't understand or are ignoring.
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Well she does have power but she does not use it. She is head of the church and the armed forces and has various powers over the political process which she does not use.
She also plays a strong diplomatic role. She had GW over to stay at Buck Palace as a sign of solidarity with the President and the US.
Yes, what you say is true, but she doesn't write the laws and that is what she is being blamed for, by the Islamonazi terrorists.
Elizabeth is the Queen, not the Queen Mother. Her mother was the Queen Mother, and she has been dead for several years.
See Post No.80.
As usual, Canada's spineless mainstream monarchists (who are not necessarily politically conservative) are in a state of denial: "Why? Hasn't Her Majesty and the Prince of Wales done a lot to promote understanding of Islam in the West?"
Link: http://members.boardhost.com/monarchist/msg/20301.html
Could someone please tell these Canadians that the reality is here and they better join in the fight against Islamofascism?
Have the Canadians heard of terrorism?
Something tells me he would never target the Democrat party.
He needs them to stay alive.
Nah, they won't do that, they need to have at least a thousand vehicles a night burning and their police stretched to breaking point. How about a meaningless midnight curfew?
Wait! Will the Canadians also put their police under arrest if they fight back?
Next installment coming to a city near you. Is Toronto Toasting?
Did you bother to read the article?
I didn't mean that she just sits around, doing "nothing"; I meant that she really does NOT have the powers that a monarch once had and that the nutter claimed for her. Are you going to sit there and tell me that that is incorrect?
There is "power" and then, there is POWER. What the Queen of England has, isn't actual POWER to rule.
He has been saying nothing of the sort.
If she chooses to not use her "power", then she doesn't have the POWER ascribed to her ( by the Islamonazi ); now does she?
In Canada, she can remove PM, senators, MP, etc.. at will, if she want to.
And the nub of what I was referring to, in my original post, was to what is written in the article.
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