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In a forceful attempt to make Britain too hot to hold radical Islamists and inflammatory preachers from around the globe, the authorities are arguing for life imprisonment of a Muslim cleric significantly named by the White House as “linked with Al Qaida”.
The cleric, Shaikh Abullah El-Faisal, originally a devout Christian from Jamaica, is being tried here for exhorting his followers to kill Hindus, Jews and Westerners throughout his four-year travels in the UK. Britain's Muslim community has publicly rejected El- Faisal's views as “ugly, shameful and unrepresentative” but legal sources said El-Faisal's hate-filled rants, appear to have been taken seriously enough by the white House. The rants incite young people to “jihad” and even gave his blessing to droping nuclear bombs on “nonbelievers' countries “.
The US administration has specifically listed El-Faisal's arrest last February as an example of “direct (UK governmental) action against Al Qaeda”, the sources pointed out. As part of its global report card on countries waging the war on terror, the white House's UK listing names Yassar al-Siri, Sulayman Balal Zainulabidin and El-Faisal.
The list, which ranges across Kenya, Malaysia and elsewhere, details SpanishItalian arrests across Europe of groups such as the Varesse and “terrorist Mohamed Bensakhria who has links to Osama bin Laden”.
El-Faisal, whose activities were first raised in the British parliament in February 2002, is believed to have lived in east London on handouts from the local council and the European Development Fund. Twelve hours of El-Faisal's taped inflammatory rants against non-Muslims, Hindus, India and Jews are being heard by the London court jury, which has uniquely been composed with a specific ban on Hindu and Jewish jurors.
The trial, under an obscure and little-used 140-yearold Victorian law, could result in life imprisonment.
MPs of Britain's governing Labour
Party have been calling for El-Faisal's deportation on grounds of promoting
“Nazi- type race hatred”. He has, in the past, preached to four British
Pakistani men known as the Tipton Taliban because they left their English
hometown Tipton to fight alongside the Taliban.
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