Kesher Talk

British sheikhs on a roll of hate: The Times reports that "A muslim sheikh has been touring Britain urging followers to kill Jews and exhorting schoolboys to master the Kalashnikov. ...The blood-curdling messages of Abdullah el-Faisal, a 38-year-old Jamaican living in East London, are being sold openly on £2 audio cassettes in Islamic bookshops under the name Shaikh Faisal."

Yesterday, Home Minister David Blunkett was pressured "to order the arrest of Islamic militants accused of distributing anti-Semitic material. Four radical Muslim preachers - Abu Hamza, Abdullah el Faisal, Omar Bakri Mohammed and Abu Qatada - were accused by a Labour MP of inciting racial hatred and, therefore, liable to prosecution. Andrew Dismore, the MP for Hendon, said he was writing to Mr Blunkett to ask for a tougher approach to the spread of anti-Semitic propaganda."

posted by Howard @ 2/06/2002 01:42:12 PM