Stockholm bomber's mosque website carries links to extremist preacher

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Source: The Observer (UK)

Luton Islamic Centre site's links to speeches by Bilal Philips, who was barred from Britain by home secretary in July for his views

Mark Townsend | Sunday December 19 2010

The website of the British mosque where the Stockholm bomber worshipped carries links to comments used to justify suicide attacks, and material expounding antisemitism and homophobia.

Preachers at the Luton Islamic Centre told last week how they had tackled Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, 28, the suicide bomber who blew himself up in Stockholm last weekend, over his extremist views. However, the centre's website carries a link to a lecture by Dr Bilal Philips, a Muslim preacher who was barred from entering Britain by the home secretary in July because of his extremist views.

Philips's speech includes a passage during which he says that a person who kills him or herself is motivated by different instincts to those of a suicide bomber. "When you look at the mind of the suicide bomber, it's a different intention altogether," he says. Suicide is generally considered to be against Islamic law.

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Qadeer Baksh, chairman of the Luton Islamic Centre, said Philips had made some "errors" in his speech. "He's talking about a military operation; he's made an error by calling it suicide bombing. He's talking about troops, not innocent people," he said. Baksh added that it was also wrong to encourage suicide. "The enemy have to kill him, he cannot kill himself by his own hands. That is an error. He's called it suicide bombing but it's not suicide bombing, it's a military tactic. I will definitely take (the website link) down immediately. I'm glad you brought that to my attention," he added.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/19/abdaly-luton-mosque-stockholm-bomber

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Bilal Phillips' Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilal_Philips

[uppityperson]

1. I'd say most every website carried links to other ones that might link to or have info

that is questionable. I agree with him that "a person who kills him or herself is motivated by different instincts to those of a suicide bomber."