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  johnpi 10:24 pm on January 11, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  Jamaican Muslim leaders agree to reinforce a ban on radical preacher Abdullah al Faisal if he ever makes it back to Jamaica.

  Further, the imams want to work with the Jamaican government to focus on Jamaican citizens who have been deported from other countries after converting to Islam in foreign prisons.

  “There are going to be some changes there,” said Muhammad, who noted that there are a number of deportees coming back from prisons in America and England who have Islamic materials they have received while in the prisons in these countries.

  “We will try to see how best we can get these persons back in the community from a positive point of view and ensure that if they still maintain their Islamic identity, it is in fact in a positive way instead of a negative way,” said Muhammad.

  Also, according to the Jamaican newspaper I’ve linked here, al Faisal was successfully deported from Kenya to Gambia. It’s like a game of “Where’s Waldo” trying to figure out where assorted governments have stashed him.

   

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  johnpi 9:45 pm on January 11, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: abdullah al Faisal (9), Extremism (167), kenya (17), radical imams, radical preachers (6)

  The tough life of a radical preacher: Attempt to deport Abdullah al Faisal to Gambia fails.

  Nigeria refused to give him a transit visa, and he has been returned to Kenya where he is now languishing in a Nairobi jail.

  The problem for Kenya and al Faisal is how to get him back to his home country of Jamaica, which has said it will take him, when no country in the world will even let him pass through its airspace.

   
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  johnpi 8:21 am on January 7, 2010 | 1 Permalink | Reply
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  Abdullah al Faisal’s forced hijrah to Somalia.

  So far, three countries have refused al Faisal a transit visa: South Africa, the UK and Tanzania. Human rights activists say that because of the fact that “no country with a functional government is willing to allow him to fly over their airspace,” Kenyan authority’s only option may be to “dump” him to a “lawless country” like Somalia, which the activists are calling ‘rendition.’

  After living his entire life in the West, al Faisal will finally get a chance to live in the particular version of paradise he has been preaching about.

   
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  johnpi 8:51 am on January 5, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  The New York Times is reporting that Abdullah al Faisal may have been a source of radicalization or inspiration to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Christmas Day suicide attacker.

  Mr. Faisal’s name surfaced much more recently in investigations into Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man accused of the attempted attack on a Northwest Airlines flight.

  In an online posting in May 2005, under the name “farouk1986,” Mr. Abdulmutallab referred to Mr. Faisal as a cleric he had listened to, according to American military and law enforcement authorities.

  In his posting, Mr. Abdulmutallab wrote: “I thought once they are arrested, no one hears about them for life and the keys to their prison wards are thrown away. That’s what I heard Sheik Faisal of U.K. say (he has also been arrested I heard).”

  Al Faisal was also Richard Reid and Zacarias Moussaoui’s imam in the UK at the Brixton mosque. More background on al Faisal here.

   
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  johnpi 8:25 am on January 5, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  Jamaican government vows to monitor Abdullah el-Faisal.

  A Jamaican-born Muslim cleric once jailed in Britain for urging the killing of Americans, Hindus and Jews will be a security concern for his Caribbean homeland when he is deported from Kenya, an official said Monday.

  After being deported to Jamaica from the UK in 2007, Jamaican law enforcement watched al-Faisal.

  Gilbert Scott, former permanent secretary of Jamaica’s Security Ministry, said agents monitored el-Faisal during his time on the Caribbean island.

  “Our security apparatus remained quite alert to his activities to make sure he was not creating any breaches,” said Scott, who left the ministry in November 2008. He said he didn’t recall anything that caused “security agents to be overly concerned with him.”

  Scott said el-Faisal had been “somewhat active” in Jamaica’s small Muslim community — roughly 5,000 adherents among the tropical island’s population of 2.8 million.

  More background on al-Faisal here.

   
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  johnpi 9:42 am on January 4, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  Revolution Muslim’s ‘imam and spiritual advisor’ deported from Kenya.

  That would be Abdullah al-Faisal who was deported from the UK in 2007 after serving a prison sentence for preaching racial hatred and calling for the killing of Jews, Christians and other Westerners. He entered Kenya Dec. 24th on a “preaching tour.”

  “The contacts he was maintaining, according to our intelligence, are not the best, are not in our national interests. The contacts were … in some neighbouring countries.”
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  Some Kenyan Muslim clerics demonstrated against Faisal’s arrest on Sunday and said he was going to preach on greater autonomy for Muslims.

  “Of course, he did not come here to appease the Kenyan government or the police, but to do his job,” said Sheikh Yahya Mohamed Atie, a retired army captain and a member of Nairobi’s Jamia Mosque.

  “He was calling Muslims to have more freedom. Of course, he is against democracy.”

  Back in the 1990s, al-Faisal called for the assassination of former Philly Imam Abu Usamah Ath-Thahabi, who more recently was reported to be a liar, swindler and womanizer on Salafi Burnout’s blog.

  The Kenyan authorities are said to be “so annoyed” with him that they won’t even grant him a transit visa back to Jamaica.

  The NEFA Foundation, a US anti-terrorism think tank, published a new backgrounder on him in October in which it says al-Faisal is described by ‘Revolution Muslim’ as its imam and spiritual advisor.

  Abdullah al-Faisal has a loyal following that is dedicated to promoting his ideology to others via the Internet and through in-person delivery of compact disc recordings. Additionally, al-Faisal regularly generates new material by giving public lectures, which are then recorded and distributed electronically and on CDs. Thus, the pervasiveness of his influence is spread quickly and broadly.

   
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  aziz 8:26 pm on November 5, 2009 | 4 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: muslim american extremism (25), radical imams

  hey, what perfect timing:

  Protected by the Constitution of the country they detest, radical Muslim converts like Yousef al-Khattab and Younes Abdullah Mohammed preach that the killing of U.S. troops overseas is justified. In their thinking, so were the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States — and so are attacks on almost any American.

  “Americans will always be a target — and a legitimate target — until America changes its nature in the international arena,” Mohammed said in an interview to air on tonight’s “AC 360.”

  yay, just yay. maybe time to reconsider our profanity ban.