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EXPOSED: New Preacher of Hate Mirror.co.uk News EXCLUSIVE: We go undercover at mosque By Bobby Pathak And Graham Brough Feb 7 2005 MUSLIM cleric Abu Abdullah is exposed today as a ranting preacher of hate. An undercover Mirror reporter spent six weeks attending notorious Finsbury Park mosque where Abdullah has taken over from hook-handed Abu Hamza who is awaiting trial in Belmarsh jail. He heard the cleric brand disbelievers "filthy", hail the "honourable brothers" of Guantanamo Bay and rail against the "infidel" West. Abdullah urged: "Stand up and be counted." The Muslim Council of Britain said his views bore an "uncanny similarity" to the outlook of the BNP.
HATE FEAR GUILT How mosque preacher 'poisons' the minds of young Brit Muslims IT is a hotbed of hate and an outrage to peaceful British Muslims. {Who obviously do not know their Koran] The Koran has more authority than any Muslim does - because it is the word of their god.
The Finsbury Park mosque became notorious under hook-handed cleric Abu Hamza as a suspected base for turning Muslims into terrorists. Hamza is behind bars awaiting trial on charges including soliciting murder. Now his sidekick Abu Abdullah spews the venom that fills angry young minds with a mixture of hatred, fear and guilt.
Posing as a student of Islamic studies, Mirror reporter Bobby Pathak infiltrated the North London mosque for six weeks in December and January. Joining 80 regular worshippers at Friday prayers he heard the cleric rant about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, rail at "filthy" disbelievers and hail "our honourable brothers in Guantanamo Bay". Abdullah raged: "If you cannot do what those honourable brothers are doing today...leaving their wives and children to go to the front line, then this is our front line here." As a stranger Pathak was treated warily and it was weeks before he felt safe enough to smuggle in recording equipment. But once he was able to do so, he taped a litany of hatred and abuse directed at the West and moderate Islamic groups that mocks the real message of Islam. At least he's not a liar! The 'allah' of the Koran calls ALL 'moderate' Muslims LIARS!
This is his shocking diary: JANUARY 7 IT is my third visit to Friday prayers - but the 80 or so regular faces look through me without a flicker of recognition. We file in just before 1pm and sit on the floor divided into lines by grids of string. Then Abu Abdullah arrives. Voices are stilled and the sound of murmured prayers replaced by respectful silence. Speaking with a North London twang, the firebrand cleric starts off his address softly. But in minutes he builds up into a frenzy, shouting and screaming. His words are picked up by a microphone he wears round his neck and are amplified by speakers in the ceiling. {same technique Hitler used - no lie] "Our women are being raped and slaughtered, our brothers are being executed, even our children!" he rants. He compares the scandal of Abu Ghraib prison - where US soldiers forced Iraqis to strip and simulate sex - to the Christian Crusades, warning that Islam is once again under attack. The Word of the Christians doesn't resort to bloody attacks: 2Cr 10:4 The weapons [Scriptures] of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; Hbr 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. There are no New Testament Scriptures to support those wars in the teachings of Jesus Christ. Then he turns on the faithful for allowing these sins to happen. Worshippers bow their heads in shame as he shouts: "How can we go home and sleep at night knowing there are millions of Muslims screaming for our help? "Do we not have a conscience? Or do we think that we're doing the right thing? Brothers and sisters, the time has come for us to stand up and be counted. Behave like Muslims. "It's the least you can do so you can find reward on yaum al-qiyamah (afterlife). Otherwise, the fire is beckoning."
JANUARY 14 FOR the past three weeks I have only seen the same people. This time I spot a new face. He is in his late 20s, and his hair and beard are long and unruly. Like two or three others, he is wearing combat-style clothing with his traditional long shirt. I watch as he is greeted like a long lost relative, with warm hugs from everyone. Where has he been? I can only guess because any conversations end abruptly as I pass in the corridor. Today Abdullah rages at US and British military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan during the 30-day Ramadan fast. He says: "While we fast and worship Allah these shaitan (devils) mock Allah's religion and put Allah's religion to the sword." In just a few minutes, he talks of the slaughter of Muslims on eight different occasions. Like all good propaganda it is based in truth though twisted beyond recognition. But worshippers are not being asked to cheer these words as a call to arms. Instead, they are being chastised for living comfortable lives when they should be out there defending Islam and honouring brothers and sisters who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the struggle against the infidel. TODAY, in what appears to be cynical manipulation, we are urged not to fear being labelled extremists. Abdullah says: "They call us extremists. They see us as strange. Our honourable brothers in Guantanamo, they've become strange. Why? Because they're the Haq (truth) and we've let them down. "We've forgotten these people in Afghanistan, in prisons, our mothers, sisters that have been raped." Next come the threats: "Allah constantly sends us signs in our eyes and we turn away. The tsunami disaster - Muslims died in this. "But on these Muslim lands, zina (sinful fornication), night-clubs...the Muslims wanted to dilute the dean (greatness) of Allah." Abdullah demands sacrifices, citing those who give their lives or freedom for their religion.
JANUARY 28 STRANGELY, some young worshippers are dressed in designer gear, Nike trainers and Levi jeans, and sport neatly trimmed goatee beards. Abdullah is not pleased. He warns: "You'll become diseased if you start to behave like the kuffar (disbelievers). Why are we ashamed to grow beards? Why are we ashamed to look like Muslims amongst these filthy kuffar?" He tells them they sin when they wear a T-shirt "showing muscles" if that makes women think impurely. And women sin when they wear make-up outside the house and "tight trousers with a hijab (veil)". Abdullah saves his most stinging rebuke for mosques and campaigners fighting the prejudice faced by British Muslims since September 11. He accuses the respected Muslim Council of Great Britain - which has demonstrated peacefully against war in Iraq and the indefinite detention of terror suspects without trial - of campaigning to "imprison Muslims". He says: "Like the Jews that practise the Torah, they want to practise what's good for them and brush aside or sweep under the carpet what they dislike. War
"Stand up against these murtads (leavers of the faith) who say they're the spokesmen or they represent the Islamic community in this country." It is believed the board of trustees at Finsbury Park mosque is now seeking to reassert its control by attempting to unseat Abdullah.
Truly - the tree is known by its own fruit.
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