A mosque attended by Manchester Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi and his family says it has suffered 'smearing and demonisation' after claims it turned a 'blind eye' to extremism.
That hardly makes it unique...
Earlier this month lawyers for the families of the bereaved said it was accepted the mosque was in no way linked to the bombing or the radicalisation of Salman Abedi, who carried out the deadly bomb attack after an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017. But it was claimed the mosque had hosted extreme Islamist sermons, failed to condemn violence and 'buried its head in the sand' over radicals in its congregation.
Gosh, how, err, unusual. But no doubt this will be dismissed as the ravings of 'Islamophobes', right?
Well, it's going to be difficult...
An Imam at the mosque, Mohammed El-Saeiti, who delivered a sermon condemning terror groups, told the inquiry trustees believed speaking up against terrorists would 'provoke' its sympathisers and supporters. The mosque then failed to support him when he faced a petition for his removal signed by, among others, Ramadan Abedi, father of the bomber. He said after the bombing the mosque's solicitor, a Mr Hafezi, pressured him to not mention the Abedis' links to the mosque.
Heh!
The statement said it had tried to keep politics out of the mosque, adding: 'Mosques are places of worship and should not become places where intelligence gathering on people's lives and politics should take place.'
Sounds like these places are exactly where it should take place to me...
"An Imam at the mosque ......delivered a sermon condemning terror groups..." .
ReplyDeleteDid he mean what he said, or was he following the Islamic use of taquiyya, where it is permissible to lie, even under oath, if it confuses those not believing in Islam and furthers it's cause?
Where those people are members of a mysoginistic, murdering, cult, which controls every aspect of their lives, social, financial, and religious, personally, I would tend towards the latter suggestion.
I have heard it said that a radical Moslem wishes to kill infidels, whereas a moderate Moslem wants a radical Moslem to kill infidels.
ReplyDeleteThat's the question, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteAnd if he meant it, was he motivated by civic duty or internal sect power struggle?