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Radical Islamists Threaten London Police After Raid

Jeremy Reynalds, Ph.D. - 1/2/2006

Leaders of the radical Islamic group al-Muhajiroun are reacting angrily to a raid by British anti-terrorist police officers on the sect’s headquarters and homes of some of its leadership. A statement issued by the group on July 30 read in part, For the moment Muslims in the UK have a covenant of Security which prevents them from attacking the lives and wealth of anyone here, however Muslims are also obliged to defend their life, honor and wealth when it is attacked and violated. With the worst housing, the highest unemployment, the largest number of race murders in Europe, a whole range of draconian laws tailored to intimidate the Muslim community, the Blair regime is today sitting on a box of dynamite and have only themselves to blame if after attacking the Islamic Movements and the Islamic scholars, it all blows up in their face! Al-Muhajiroun has been linked to the recent British suicide bombers in Israel and has issued calls to overthrow the British government.

According to the BBC, Scotland Yard said search warrants to enter the properties were served under the Terrorism Act. No arrests were made. The BBC reported that a Scotland Yard statement read: At about 0700 BST officers from the Metropolitan Police Anti-Terrorist branch executed search warrants obtained from Bow Street Magistrates Court under the Terrorism Act 2000 at a residential premises in North London and another in Essex. Group leader Omar Bakri Muhammad told BBC News he was not surprised at the raids. It is not the first time we face something similar - the police visit us and take some items and cancel some of our events. But the scale of it this time, it seems to me they are really clamping down on al-Muhajiroun. The police always investigate us, always interrogate us, always check everything we do. Everything we do is within the framework of the law which is what you offer to the people living in this country - it surprise me, why now?

A release issued by al-Muhajiroun emphasized Muhammad’s point and insisted that group members were being unfairly targeted. It read, “Al-Muhajiroun (members) are known world-wide for their ideological and political struggle against man made law and their struggle to establish the ... Islamic State. They are known not to involve themselves in military activities or recruiting people for operations despite the hype from sections of the media and Jewish MP's. Yet despite this the Blair regime has still seen fit to raid the houses and offices of its leadership. Only time will tell whether the institutional racism for which the British Police are infamous will again raise its ugly head in the planting of incriminating evidence, as was witnessed in the raid of Finsbury Park Mosque.