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The Queen forced to wear a burkha and Buckingham Palace turned into a mosque - that was the vision of Britain under Sharia law proposed by a Muslim firebrand today. Preacher of hate Anjem Choudary even showed mocked-up photographs of the palace sporting a golden dome and Nelson's Column as a minaret. He was speaking ahead of a demonstration calling for Sharia law planned for Central London tomorrow, which it is feared could descend into violence. Police are working to avoid a clash between moderate Muslim groups and far-right mobs who have organised rival demonstrations.

SNIPPET: "A young schoolboy was “converted” to Islam on the streets of Birmingham by a radical Muslim preacher, the Sunday Mercury can reveal. The bewildered-looking 11 year-old, who gives his name as Sean, was filmed repeating Arabic chants and swearing allegiance to Allah. The white schoolboy is prompted throughout by controversial cleric Anjem Choudary, a follower of exiled hate-preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed.

MOSSAD'S KILLING MACHINE COMES TO BRITAIN A killing war between Israel's Mossad and Islamic fanatics came closer this weekend in Britain. The Israeli intelligence agency has sent four members of its kidon assassination squad to this country, to join fifteen other handpicked katsas, its relentless field agents. Their brief is to "disable" any of the "close to 50" British Muslims that the extremist Islamic group, Al-Muhajiroun, last week boasted were ready to carry out suicide missions similar to the one in Tel Aviv. Al-Muhajiroun spokesman, Asif Butt, said the 50 were "primed and ready to go". The threat was sufficient...

"They're Baaaack: British Terror Supporters Re-launch al-Muhajiroun, Dedicated to "Raising Flag of Islam over Downing Street"" SNIPPET: "A group of terror supporters in the UK have relaunched an organization dedicated banning criticism of Islam, beheading "blasphemers", and killing adulterers. The new and improved al-Muhajiroun will once again be led by Anjem Choudary, chairman of the Society of Muslim Lawyers. The organization was originally founded by Omar Bakri Muhammad who was recently convicted in absentia by a Lebanese court of helping train al Qaeda's local affiliate. He has also been banned from reentering the UK. The group disbanded after a conference...

Infamous Islamic hate cleric Mullah Omar Bakri Mohammed has been following a strict diet so that he can breed more ‘jihadi’ recruits. The 50 year old cleric shunned his former wife, and married Lebanese beauty Ruba almost half of his age, and is now planning to start another family with her. “Inshallah (God willing), I will have more children. My wife is still young and we would like to start a family together,” The Daily Star quoted Mohammad, as saying. One of Mohammad’s friend said: “His dream is to produce more children, all committed to following his jihadi cause.” In...

Exiled hate preacher Omar Bakri faces death by hanging after being found guilty of training Al Qaeda terrorists. The 51-year-old Muslim cleric, who fled Britain in 2005, yesterday revealed plans to appeal to a Beirut court which convicted him.

June 9, 2006 -- The Queens chapter of an international jihadist group - founded by the Brooklyn College grad accused of being an al Qaeda sympathizer - is terrorizing people in the extremist's old stomping grounds, residents said yesterday. "They have a lot of hatred [but] the police said they can't do anything about them," Kana Chauhan, president of the Jackson Heights Merchants Association, said of the radical group Al Muhajiroun. The organization is tied to suspected terrorist ally Syed "Fahad" Hashmi, a disciple of Syrian cleric Omar Bakri who was banned from speaking on English college campuses. The Queens-bred...

How The West Was Won The rapid and unexpected decline of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq was officially recognized this week, when Maj. Gen. John Kelly, commanding the Marine Expeditionary Force, turned operational control of Anbar Province over to the Iraqi army and police. Anbar, a vast expanse of desert the size of North Carolina, had been the stronghold of the Sunni insurgency. For years, foreign fighters loyal to al-Qaida had sneaked across Iraq's northwestern border with Syria, into Anbar and down a "rat line" of safe houses in Haditha, Ramadi and Hit. From Fallujah, the arch terrorist Zarqawi...

Petraeus: Al Qaida Trying to 'Come Back In' U.S. military officials said there will be no significant reduction in coalition troops in the Baghdad area as part of an effort to stop the Al Qaida offensive in northern Iraq. They said Al Qaida was trying to reenter Baghdad and reverse its losses in 2007. "Al Qaida is trying to come back in," U.S. military commander Gen. David Petraeus said. "We can feel it and see it, and what we're trying to do is rip out any roots before they can get deeply into the ground." Read More Militants Assert...

Muslims declare sovereignty over U.S., UK Hear Islamic leaders in London: 'Queen Elizabeth, go to hell!' Across town from the site of the recent attempted car-bomb attacks, several thousand Muslims gathered in front of the London Central Mosque to applaud fiery preachers prophesying the overthrow of the British government – a future vision that encompasses an Islamic takeover of the White House and the rule of the Quran over America. "One day my dear Muslims," shouted Anjem Choudary, "Islam will govern Britain!" Choudary was a co-founder of Al Muhajiroun, the now-banned group tied to suspects in the July 7, 2005,...

Four Muslims were arrested outside the Old Bailey yesterday during angry protests against the trial of a man allegedly involved in protests against Danish cartoons. Anjem Choudary, who helped organise the anti-Danish protests, was once more involved as was Abu Izzadeen, who confronted John Reid, the Home Secretary, on a recent visit to East London. Mr Choudary said afterwards: "We should not be surprised at people doing something like 7/7. How else do you expect Muslims to express themselves? "We are a community under siege. It's going to blow up one day in everyone's faces." Male demonstrators, most wearing scarves...

THE Muslim teacher who insisted on wearing a veil in class has been following a fatwa issued personally to her by a Islamic cleric belonging to a hardline sect. Aishah Azmi found herself in the middle of a national row about integration when she took her school to an employment tribunal after it suspended her for refusing to remove the veil in class. Tony Blair joined the debate about the wearing of veils — opened by Jack Straw, the Commons leader — and supported the school’s actions. Azmi, 24, has maintained that her decision to wear the veil was driven...

The man who from safe and agreeably leafy north London suburbia offered his continual support to suicide bombers and refused to condemn the attacks of 9/11 and July 7, all the while ranting against the perfidies of western civilisation and its infidel cockroach minions, now wishes to return to the bosom of Satan as quickly as possible.

EXILED Islamic fanatic Omar Bakri Mohammed made an outrageous bid to flee bombed-out Beirut on a Royal Navy warship yesterday. But the people of Britain told him to go to hell. The Muslim cleric who once preached hate-filled rants against the UK and praised the 9/11 atrocities as "magnificent" begged to be allowed aboard one of the vessels ferrying Britons to safety. His plea, made only a few months after he quit Britain under pressure, fell on deaf ears. But Bakri still had the cheek to complain and wrote to embassy officials in Lebanon pleading to get back to the...

An American citizen who once lived and attended college in New York City was indicted today on charges of conspiring to send money and military gear to al Qaeda associates who lived in Pakistan, the United States attorney's office in Manhattan said. The defendant, Syed Hashmi, 26, was arrested in London's Heathrow Airport on Tuesday night, as he was trying to board a flight to Pakistan, prosecutors said. Law enforcement officials said the arrest of Mr. Hashmi reinforced their belief that New York was a nexus in a web of worldwide terrorist activity. Mr. Hashmi had an address in Flushing,...

“[T]he conflict is so clear, so stark there is no middle ground,” said Usman Badar, who in 2005 was President of the Muslim Student Association at Sydney University. “How do you come to middle ground on whether sovereignty belongs to the people or to Allah? You can’t.” Schools down under have begun welcoming Badar and other speakers who, as Sydney Morning Herald reporter Miranda Devine wrote on Sunday, “appear to be fully assimilated, second-generation Australians” who wear conventional Western clothing and speak fluently in “broad Australian accents” as well as Arabic. “But they belong to a political group called Hizb...

British Muslims burn a Danish flag during a demonstration outside the Danish embassy over the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, in London February 3, 2006. The cartoons, which first appeared in a Danish newspaper, have sparked outrage across the Islamic world, although Britain's normally provocative newspapers have so far refused to publish them. REUTERS/Mike Finn-Kelcey        

... What neither the ad nor CityMuslim.com noted was that this was a recruiting mission for Islamist terrorists, including al-Qaida fighters in Iraq, belonging to al-Muhajiroun (“The Emigrants”) terrorist group that intends to turn Great Britain into an Islamist state, one even more extreme than Afghanistan under the Taliban. Al-Muhajiroun splintered from Hizb ut-Tahrir in 1996. It was led by Anjem Choudary and became infamous for its conference "The Magnificent 19", which praised the 19 terrorists responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks... Both al-Muhajiroun and the Party for Islamic Renewal use the marsad@marsad.fsnet.co.uk email address. Both can be reached...

Muslims warn of reaction to terror measuresBy Jimmy Burns and Roger Blitz Published: November 11 2005 02:00 | Last updated: November 11 2005 02:00Tony Blair's hopes of securing broad political support for his anti-terrorist strategy suffered another setback yesterday when key areas of policy came under attack from leading representatives of the Muslim community. A Muslim working group set up by the Home Office to advise on ways to improve integration and tackle extremism following the London bombings in July criticised the government's "misguided over-emphasis" on a strategy of "counter-productive counter-terrorism". It also said British foreign policy was "a key...

FIREBRAND Islamist cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed -- banned from Britain since August -- has urged Muslims to leave Europe. Mr Bakri, a Lebanese national of Syrian origin who was living in Britain since 1986, was interviewed by France 3 television in Beirut. He has been based there since the British Government stripped him of his residency in its campaign to rein in radical Islamist leaders. "There must be two distinct camps and so all Muslims must leave Europe," said Mr Bakri, declaring that he was convinced "the Islamic flag will fly one day over Downing Street". Mr Bakri is head...

Five British Muslims have reportedly been killed fighting for the Taliban. Three of the casualties of the British-based Al-Muhajiroun group have been identified. The five were killed during fighting for the city of Mazar-e-Sharif, a spokesman for the Taliban said. "Five of our British Muslim volunteers were martyred in Mazar-e-Sharif," Mr Hassan Butt said. They include Abdul Saleem (25) from East London; Zulfikar Ahmed (28) from Leicester; and Abu Waheed (26) from Crawley. He refused to identify the other two. Al-Muhajiroun lost three other Britons and two American Muslim members last month during US-led bombing on Kabul. The Northern ...

The aim: Muslim state from Spain to Indonesia By Nick Meo July 18, 2005 Page Tools Email to a friend Printer format The accents were from the north of England. It was hard to know whether the scruffy, earnest and clearly hostile young men crowded into a smelly flat in Lahore were really dangerous, or whether they were just playing at being jihadis. They didn't look like ruthless terrorists. Some were only old enough to grow wispy beards. It was pretty clear they wouldn't fit in at home, if they still considered Britain home. Most seemed to be running away...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Investigators probing the London terror bombings are focusing on an elusive British Muslim suspect who is connected to a previous plot to set up a terrorist training camp in rural southern Oregon, according to U.S. counterterrorism officials. Officials told both NBC News and CNN Wednesday that Haroon Rashid Aswat, believed to be a mastermind of the London bombings, is the same British-born Muslim of Indian descent who scouted a Bly, Oregon ranch to set up a terror camp. These officials said Aswat, a Pakistani national being sought for questioning as a person of interest by British authorities,...

Militant says 'no negotiation' as Blair talks with Muslims By Philippe Naughton, Times Online One of the country's most controversial Islamic militants accused the Government of trying to divide the Muslim community today as Tony Blair welcomed community leaders to No 10 Downing Street for talks on how to react to the July 7 bombings. In an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Anjem Choudary, leader of the militant group al-Muhajiroun, refused to condemn the suicide bombings on the Tube and a London bus and gave warning that there was a "very real possibility" of another terror attack in...

Terrorists came from Finsbury Park Mosque in London  Militant Islam Monitorhttp://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/294UK .. You will pay ..Bin Laden's on waySickening sight .........Abdul Rehman Saleem of the Al-Muhajiroun, burns the Union Jack and warns of bloodshed on the streets of London Richard Reid (shoe bomber) and Germaine Lindsay( London Subway bomber) went to the Finsbury Mosque in London, it appears that Zacarias Moussaoui and James Ujaama of Seattle WA also attended the Finsbury Mosque along with the two suicide bombers who attacked Mike's pub in Israel last year. British police have released the former leader of the Finsbury Park Mosque Abu...

Terror on the dole By David Cohen, Evening Standard 20 April 2004 Four young British Muslims in their twenties - a social worker, an IT specialist, a security guard and a financial adviser - occupy a table at a fast-food chicken restaurant in Luton. Perched on their plastic chairs, wolfing down their dinner, they seem just ordinary young men. Yet out of their mouths pour heated words of revolution. "As far as I'm concerned, when they bomb London, the bigger the better," says Abdul Haq, the social worker. "I know it's going to happen because Sheikh bin Laden said so....

A group of American Muslims produced a video that shows its members on a city street corner declaring Islam's dominance over America as they tred on a U.S. flag and then rip it apart. In the video, released by the New York-based Islamic Thinkers Society, one of the Muslims is shown placing a sign on the flag that says, "Oh Muslims! Do you know your enemy? Isn't it obvious?" Author and researcher Robert Spencer, who posted the video on his weblog Jihad Watch, commented that Muslim lobby groups such as the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations have helped foster an...

Fifteen minutes after KLM Flight 685 took off from Amsterdam for Mexico City on April 8, Mexican authorities forwarded the names of all the passengers to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The reason: the flight was scheduled to pass through U.S. airspace. by the time the Boeing 747 had finished its three-hour crossing of the Atlantic, Homeland Security screeners were on high alert. The names of two Saudi passengers aboard the KLM flight had begun producing "hits" on the screening center's lists of 70,000 suspect foreigners. The two Saudis, the database reported, were brothers and pilots who had attended...

Militant Imams Under Scrutiny Across Europe By DON VAN NATTA Jr. and LOWELL BERGMAN ONDON, Jan. 24 - In nightly sermons broadcast on the Internet, Sheik Omar Bakri Muhammad, a 46-year-old Syrian-born cleric, has urged young Muslim men all over the world to support the Iraq insurgency on the front line of "the global jihad," investigators say. He struck a similarly defiant tone this month at a rally attended by 500 people at a central London meeting hall, where a giant screen behind him showed images of the World Trade Center falling. "Allah akbar!" - "God is great" - some...

Extremist cleric staged al-Qaeda recruiting rally By Sean O’Neill and Richard Ford THE radical Islamist cleric whose internet sermons are being investigated by police has held a secret conference at which British Muslims were urged to join al-Qaeda. About 600 people, including women and children, punched the air and chanted Allahu akbar (God is greatest) as they were shown videos of hijacked airliners crashing into the World Trade Centre in New York on September 11, 2001. Omar Bakri Mohammed, the radical Syrian-born cleric, said that if the British Government did not relax its tough anti- terrorism laws, the response from...

Zealots made to call off 9/11 ‘celebration’ Nick Fielding and Abul Taher The Sunday Times - Britain September 12, 2004 ISLAMIC extremists were forced to call off a London conference commemorating the third anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on America yesterday when the owners of the venue cancelled the booking after consulting police.

Islamic extremists in the UK have hailed the terrorists responsible for the September 11 terrorist atrocities on the third anniversary of the attack. Anjem Choudary, of radical group Al-Muhajiroun, described Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the attack on the Twin Towers in New York, as a "Muslim brother" and claimed he would be elected leader in any Muslim country. Al-Muhajiroun, which vowed that one day the Islamic flag will fly in Downing Street, had planned to stage a conference in London to mark the third anniversary of September 11 but it was called it off on police advice. Instead Mr...

It's been down since this afternoon (I've been checking, http://www.muhajiroun.com/ or click here I have the right address, and I "googled" for it just in case I somehow didn't. Too much traffic? Did the web host boot them? Here are a couple of FR posts,about al-Muhajiroun. one from today, the other from yesterday. British Muslim Leader Justifies Chechen School Attack AndMuslim Radicals Plan Tribute to 9/11 Attacks

A British Muslim group is planning a commemoration of 9/11 - and now its spiritual leader says he supports abducting British children. The extremist leader of Al-Muhajiroun, Omar Bakri Mohammed, said this week that holding women and children as hostages would be reasonable for a Muslim who has suffered under British rule. Mohammed told The Sunday Telegraph, "If an Iraqi Muslim carried out an attack like that in Britain, it would be justified because Britain has carried out acts of terrorism in Iraq... As long as the Iraqi did not deliberately kill women and children, and they were killed in...

The extremist Islamic movement Al-Muhajiroun has announced a planned tribute to the 9/11 attacks and the 19 hijackers who carried them out during its London convention later this month, reports the British Arab daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. The tribute - titled, "The Choice is in Your Hands: Either You're with the Muslims or with the Infidels" - is billed as a celebration of the third anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, according to the Middle Eastern Media Research Institute, which translates Arab news reports. The group had planned a similar anniversary event a year ago, called "The...

UK radical Muslims to mark 9/11 anniversary By Peter Graff LONDON (Reuters) - A British radical Muslim group that once described the September 11, 2001 hijackers as "The Magnificent 19" will hold a conference to mark the anniversary of the attacks this weekend, its leader says. The al Muhajiroun group led by Sheikh Omar Bakri says its long-term goal is to establish Islamic rule in Britain, but denies that it promotes violence at home. The group was widely denounced last year by mainstream Muslim organisations for advertising four conferences that seemed to praise the September 11 hijackers who killed nearly...

An extremist terror supporter has backed hostage taking in British schools.Talking about the bloody siege in Beslan, religious fanatic Omar Bakri said: 'If an Iraqi Muslim carried out an attack like that in Britain it would be justified.'Britain had carried out 'acts of terrorism' in Iraq, he said.And he would not even see the deaths of innocent British women and children as wrong.'If they were killed in the crossfire that would be OK,' he said.An illegal immigrant expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1985, Syrian born Bakri lives on more than 300 pounds a week state benefits in Edmonton, North London.Bakri...

Cleric supports targeting children By Rajeev Syal An extremist Islamic cleric based in Britain said yesterday that he would support hostage-taking at British schools if carried out by terrorists with a just cause. Omar Bakri Mohammed, the spiritual leader of the extremist sect al-Muhajiroun, said that holding women and children hostage would be a reasonable course of action for a Muslim who has suffered under British rule. In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Mr Mohammed said: "If an Iraqi Muslim carried out an attack like that in Britain, it would be justified because Britain has carried out acts of...

Omar Bakri Mohammed, the spiritual leader of the extremist sect al-Muhajiroun, said that holding women and children hostage would be a reasonable course of action for a Muslim who has suffered under British rule... He gave an interview yesterday to promote a "celebratory" conference in London next Saturday to commemorate the third anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

Cleric supports targeting children By Rajeev Syal (Filed: 05/09/2004) An extremist Islamic cleric based in Britain said yesterday that he would support hostage-taking at British schools if carried out by terrorists with a just cause. Omar Bakri Mohammed, the spiritual leader of the extremist sect al-Muhajiroun, said that holding women and children hostage would be a reasonable course of action for a Muslim who has suffered under British rule. In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Mr Mohammed said: "If an Iraqi Muslim carried out an attack like that in Britain, it would be justified because Britain has carried out...

Cleric supports targeting children An extremist Islamic cleric based in Britain said yesterday that he would support hostage-taking at British schools if carried out by terrorists with a just cause. Omar Bakri Mohammed, the spiritual leader of the extremist sect al-Muhajiroun, said that holding women and children hostage would be a reasonable course of action for a Muslim who has suffered under British rule. In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Mr Mohammed said: "If an Iraqi Muslim carried out an attack like that in Britain, it would be justified because Britain has carried out acts of terrorism in Iraq....

An extremist Islamic cleric based in Britain said yesterday that he would support hostage-taking at British schools if carried out by terrorists with a just cause. Omar Bakri Mohammed, the spiritual leader of the extremist sect al-Muhajiroun, said that holding women and children hostage would be a reasonable course of action for a Muslim who has suffered under British rule. In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Mr Mohammed said: "If an Iraqi Muslim carried out an attack like that in Britain, it would be justified because Britain has carried out acts of terrorism in Iraq.

An extremist Islamic cleric based in Britain said yesterday that he would support hostage-taking at British schools if carried out by terrorists with a just cause. Omar Bakri Mohammed, the spiritual leader of the extremist sect al-Muhajiroun, said that holding women and children hostage would be a reasonable course of action for a Muslim who has suffered under British rule. In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Mr Mohammed said: "If an Iraqi Muslim carried out an attack like that in Britain, it would be justified because Britain has carried out acts of terrorism in Iraq. "As long as the...

London Convention Will Celebrate 9/11 The London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported that the extremist Islamic movement Al-Muhajiroun had announced a convention in London, titled "The Choice is in Your Hands: Either You're with the Muslims or with the Infidels," to mark the third anniversary of the September 11 attacks. The organization had planned a similar anniversary event a year ago, called "The Magnificent 19 [Suicide Attackers]," but had cancelled it at the last minute. The following is a summary of the report:(1) Al-Muhajiroun leader Omar Bakri, a Syrian residing in London, told the paper by phone that the convention would...

San Jose Website Incites Murder of British PeopleBritish Muslim leaders angry: Terror leaflets found at mosqueBy Jeanette Oldham, Sunday Mercury, Aug 15 2004 _______ Hundreds of leaflets urging Muslims to become terrorist fighters have been distributed at a Midland mosque.Police have been called in to investigate after the flyers were found at Birmingham Central Mosque last week.The leaflets urge worshippers to become Mujahideen fighters and ask them to 'pray for death and decay to be visited upon the West'.The literature bears the name of a group called Ahle Sunnah Wal Jamah, which mosque officials say is often used as an...

A major international petition calling on Islamic leaders to allow Muslims to convert to another faith was presented to the United Nations. The petition, signed by 88,890 people from 32 countries, says "Muslims who choose to convert to another faith" should be "free to do so without having to face a lifetime of fear as a result." Under Sharia, or Islamic law, Muslims who convert to another faith and refuse to repent must be put to death. The British charity Barnabas Fund presented the petition to U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour July 28. The group said it...

RALLY FOR ISLAM (IX) IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE - SUNDAY JULY 25TH – 1PM – 6PM – ALL WELCOME… Hundreds of Muslims from across the UK are set to converge in London’s Trafalgar Square on the 25th of July for the Annual Rally for Islam. This year will be the 9th anniversary of the rally and promises to be the best yet. The British public will once again witness many non-Muslims: previously Jews, Christians, Hindus & Sikhs (idol worshippers), Atheists, Socialists etc giving up their false beliefs and ideologies in order to embrace the divine way of life which Islam offers...

Fake "rape" photos that originated on porn sites and were distributed throughout the world as evidence of coalition atrocities undergirded a recent call to jihad by a London-based militant group that supported the beheading of American hostage Nick Berg. In an "urgent" statement released on May 4, the same day WND debunked the photos, the British-based radical Islamist group Al-Muhajiron rang the alarm over the depictions of gang-rape. WorldNetDaily reported the photos, which appeared on Arabic websites, were actually taken from American and Hungarian pornography sites. "The more vivid and explicit photos however weren't even shown," Al-Muhajiron announced. "Muslim women...

Four young British Muslims in their twenties - a social worker, an IT specialist, a security guard and a financial adviser - occupy a table at a fast-food chicken restaurant in Luton. Perched on their plastic chairs, wolfing down their dinner, they seem just ordinary young men. Yet out of their mouths pour heated words of revolution. "As far as I'm concerned, when they bomb London, the bigger the better," says Abdul Haq, the social worker. "I know it's going to happen because Sheikh bin Laden said so. Like Bali, like Turkey, like Madrid - I pray for it, I...

LISBON (Reuters) - Several Islamic militant groups are preparing attacks on London, making such a strike unavoidable, a radical Muslim cleric said in an interview published Sunday. "It's inevitable. Because several (attacks) are being prepared by several groups," Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad told Lisbon's Publica magazine from London where he is based. One "very well organized" group in London calling itself al Qaeda Europe "has a great appeal for young Muslims," he said. "I know that they are ready to launch a big operation." The firebrand cleric, who has outraged moderate Muslims and non-Muslims alike with his uncompromising views, gave...