Posted on 03/07/2003 6:02:28 AM PST by PlanoMike
HATE PREACHER JAILED
A race-hate Muslim cleric convicted of calling for his followers to murder non-believers has been jailed for nine years.
An Old Bailey judge also recommended that Abdullah el-Faisal, 39, be deported when his sentence was served.
El-Faisal was found guilty last month of three charges of soliciting murder and three charges involving stirring up racial hatred.
The Jamaican told young British Muslims it was their duty to kill non-believers, Americans, Hindus and Jews.
Shock
He promised schoolboys they would be rewarded with 72 virgins in paradise if they died in a holy war.
In his defence, Faisal said he only preached what he had learned from the Koran.
The prosecution was the first of its kind in over 100 years.
The judge jailed el-Faisal for a total of seven years on three charges of soliciting murder and for two years on charges of using insulting words and distributing tapes of insulting words.
After the verdict it emerged judge Peter Beaumont had almost halted the trial halfway through after an apparent attempt to bribe him with £50,000.
Extremists
A group of around a dozen supporters looked shocked as el-Faisal was sentenced.
El-Faisal stretched out his arm to them as he was led away.
The fanatical cleric had links with other extremists and was associated with James Ujaama who is awaiting trial in the US for trying to set up a terrorist training camp.
El Faisal had formerly been a devout Christian but converted to Islam as a teenager and went on to study the faith in Saudi Arabia. He moved to Britain in the 1990s and later became Imam of the Brixton Mosque in south London.
Better yet, give this racist, hate-filled islamist the rope and let it serve as a lesson to his ilk.
They just KEEP getting that quote wrong:
I think the original text says they'll meet up with 72 Virginians: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,...
I doubt it.
Except in the U.S. Try this link.
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