Radical Muslim questions tactics of bombers

By David Millward
(Filed: 30/07/2005)

A Muslim who helped recruit young men to fight for the Taliban says that those willing to plant bombs in London were guilty of tactical errors but were not immoral.

Hassan Butt, 25, earned notoriety in January 2002 when he told the BBC’s Today programme that Britons who went to fight the West in Afghanistan would return home to launch terror attacks.

Three years on, in an interview given to Prospect magazine some months before the bombings and published this week, he predicted that “a lot of killing” is unavoidable if the world is to come under the banner of Islam.

Formerly the self-styled spokesman for al-Muhajiroun, an Islamic fundamentalist group, he split from the faction over the issue of the “covenant of security”, which forbade Muslims living in Britain from engaging in military action within the country.

While al-Muhajiroun supported the concept, Butt said he did not. His opposition to committing acts of violence was, he said, a matter of tactics rather than principle. “Now, I am not in favour of military action in Britain but if somebody did do it who was British, I would not have any trouble with that either. . . It wouldn’t necessarily be the wisest thing to do but it wouldn’t be un-Islamic.”

Anyone who was involved in such attacks would be a “completely and utterly loose cannon”, said Butt, who now lives in the Leeds suburb of Beeston. Such “military action” would be unwise because “a bomb in London would be strategically damaging to Muslims here. Immigration is lax in Britain. . . London has more radical Muslims than anywhere in the Muslim world. A bomb would jeopardise everyone’s position. There has to be a place we can come.” (Phil comment: So his position on immigration is the same as Tony Blair’s. I suppose there is truth in the BNP’s accusation that New Labour and Islamic Fundamentalists are political allies)

But he drew a distinction between Muslims who sought refuge in Britain - who would be bound by the covenant - and those who were born here, who would not.

“Most of our people, especially the youth, are British citizens,” he said. “They owe nothing to the Government. They did not ask to be born here; neither did they ask to be protected by Britain.”

Posted by Phil Peterson on Sunday, July 31, 2005 at 04:23 AM in Islam & Islamification
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Posted by Andrew L on July 31, 2005, 04:53 AM | #

I was reading in the Spector, that one of the Bombers had a Funeral in Pakastan with out the corps, and a few thousand showed up, Not bad for a Born and bread Young Britt,Multi culti strikes back.
New Labour and Islam, your kidding, they are bed buddies,Joined at the Hipp even, anything to rip the heart out of Christian freedoms, as on the other thread, 125 years ago revisited, without the Ottoman Empire. Same Cult different date.
Hope you had a great Holiday Phil, and able to Sqeeze in some Cricket practise oops, sound’s like teasing.

Posted by Phil on July 31, 2005, 05:03 AM | #

Andrew,

Lay off the cracks about Cricket for the moment will you?

Posted by Guessedworker on July 31, 2005, 05:55 AM | #

Welcome back, Phil.

Obviously, Max Hastings, writing in the Telegraph today didn’t read yesterday’s piece about Mr Butt.

Hastings is trying to square the circle of assimilationism: “the rights and obligations of everyone who lives in our society.” He concedes that “the majority have rights too”, a position with which nobody at this blog would argue. But he concludes:-

“Until interracial experience finds a path into our own lives, it remains hard to boast that we are contributing much to the assimilation we deem vital to our future. This is a two-way street.”

There is not the slightest understanding that we have already had a gutfull of “interracial experience”. We are not blind. We are not going to turn some spiritual corner and get along with aliens because they are all Brits under the skin really!

The mistake Hastings makes is to assume that peoples live apart in suspicion and dislike of one another because of multiculturalism. They live apart because they prefer it that way.

The “aware” right must prepare itself for Hastings’ assimilationism which, ultimately, is infinitely more dangerous to our survival than Butt’s Allah-madness.

Posted by Phil on July 31, 2005, 06:07 AM | #

Thank you, David.

Yes The “mainstream” Right remains delusional in the fundamental sense.

Btw, did you read Boris Johnson’s mindless piece in the Spectator? Confusion run amok.

Posted by Geoff Beck on July 31, 2005, 04:28 PM | #

No, it can’t be true:

Extraordinary admission to interrogators by London bomb suspect

A suspected member of the 21 July bomb cell has told investigators he was motivated by the Iraq war…

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