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[[Omar Bakri Muhammad]] is the founder of [[Al-Muhajiroun]].
 
[[Omar Bakri Muhammad]] is the founder of [[Al-Muhajiroun]].
  
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==Background==
 
Bakri was born in Syria in 1958.<ref>Sean O'Neill and Daniel McGrory, ''The Suicide Factory: Abu Hamza and the Finsbury Park Mosque'', HarperCollins, 2006, p.105.</ref> He left that country in 1982, following the [[Hafez al-Assad|Assad]] regime's repression of the [[Muslim Brotherhood]] revolt in which he had taken part.<ref>Mark Curtis, ''Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam'', Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.273.</ref>  He founded [[Al-Muhajiroun]] in Saudi Arabia in 1983.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.244.</ref> Following the proscription of Al-Muhajiroun in Saudi Arabia, Bakri fled to Britain in 1986.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.245.</ref>   
 
Bakri was born in Syria in 1958.<ref>Sean O'Neill and Daniel McGrory, ''The Suicide Factory: Abu Hamza and the Finsbury Park Mosque'', HarperCollins, 2006, p.105.</ref> He left that country in 1982, following the [[Hafez al-Assad|Assad]] regime's repression of the [[Muslim Brotherhood]] revolt in which he had taken part.<ref>Mark Curtis, ''Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam'', Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.273.</ref>  He founded [[Al-Muhajiroun]] in Saudi Arabia in 1983.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.244.</ref> Following the proscription of Al-Muhajiroun in Saudi Arabia, Bakri fled to Britain in 1986.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.245.</ref>   
  
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==Hizb-ut-Tahrir leader==
 
Bakri subsequently became leader of the British branch of [[Hizb-ut-Tahrir]].<ref>Sean O'Neill and Daniel McGrory, ''The Suicide Factory: Abu Hamza and the Finsbury Park Mosque'', HarperCollins, 2006, p.105.</ref> He was arrested in 1991 after saying that [[John Major]] was a legitimate target for assassination as a result of the Gulf War.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.273.</ref>  He was not charged over the incident.<ref>Sean O'Neill and Daniel McGrory, ''The Suicide Factory: Abu Hamza and the Finsbury Park Mosque'', HarperCollins, 2006, p.113.</ref>  
 
Bakri subsequently became leader of the British branch of [[Hizb-ut-Tahrir]].<ref>Sean O'Neill and Daniel McGrory, ''The Suicide Factory: Abu Hamza and the Finsbury Park Mosque'', HarperCollins, 2006, p.105.</ref> He was arrested in 1991 after saying that [[John Major]] was a legitimate target for assassination as a result of the Gulf War.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.273.</ref>  He was not charged over the incident.<ref>Sean O'Neill and Daniel McGrory, ''The Suicide Factory: Abu Hamza and the Finsbury Park Mosque'', HarperCollins, 2006, p.113.</ref>  
  
 
During the 1990s he supported the KLA in Kosovo.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.245.</ref> The American intelligence writer John Loftus has claimed he was working with British intelligence at this time.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.244.</ref>  
 
During the 1990s he supported the KLA in Kosovo.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.245.</ref> The American intelligence writer John Loftus has claimed he was working with British intelligence at this time.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.244.</ref>  
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==Forms Al-Muhajiroun==
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Bakri split with [[Hizb-ut-Tahrir]] in early 1996, when he formed his own separate Al-Muhajiroun organisation.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.273.</ref> 
  
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Bakri split with[[Hizb-ut-Tahrir]] in early 1996, when he formed his own separate Al-Muhajiroun organisation.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.273.</ref>   
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Journalist Mark Curtis reports that in the late 1990s, Bakr claimed to be operating in Britain under a 'covenant of security' with the British state.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.243.</ref> This must be treated with some caution as it is sourced to a [[MEMRI]] report.<ref>Yotam Feldner, [http://www.memri.org/report/en/print535.htm Radical Islamist Profiles (2): Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad - London], MEMRI, 25 October 2001.</ref>  MEMRI in turn cites an interview with Bakri by [[Patrick Goodenough]] for a news site associated with the US conservative movement, CNSNews.com.<ref>Patrick Goodenough, [http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/uk-muslims-being-trained-us-jihad UK Muslims Being Trained in US for Jihad], CNSnews.com, 24 May 2000.</ref>
  
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Journalist Mark Curtis reports that in the late 1990s, Bakr claimed to be operating in Britain under a 'covenant of security' with the British state.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.243.</ref> This must be treated with some caution as it is sourced to a [[MEMRI]] report.<Yotam Feldner, [http://www.memri.org/report/en/print535.htm Radical Islamist Profiles (2): Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad - London], MEMRI, 25 October 2001.</ref> MEMRI in turn cites an interview with Bakri by [[Patrick Goodenough]] for a news site associated with the US conservative movement, CNSNews.com.<ref>Patrick Goodenough, [http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/uk-muslims-being-trained-us-jihad UK Muslims Being Trained in US for Jihad], CNSnews.com, 24 May 2000.</ref>
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Bakri left Britain for Lebanon a month after the 2005 London bombings. The Home Secretary [[Charles Clarke]] announced in 2006, that he would not be allowed to return to Britain.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.274.</ref> Mark Curtis suggests that this was an arrangement designed to conceal potentially embarrassing past links between Bakri and the intelligence community.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.275.</ref>
  
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Bakri left Britain for Lebanon a month after the 2005 London bombings. The Home Secretary [[Charles Clarke]] announced in 2006, that he would not be allowed to return to Britain.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.274.</ref> Mark Curtis suggests that this was an arrangement designed to conceal potentially embarrassing past links between Bakri and the intelligence community.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.275.</ref> 
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==External resources==
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*Mahan Abedin, [http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=290&no_cache=1#.VzHm9zArK9I Al-Muhajiroun in the UK: An Interview with Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed], ''Jamestown Foundation'', 25 May 2005.
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==

Latest revision as of 13:58, 10 May 2016

Omar Bakri Muhammad is the founder of Al-Muhajiroun.

Background

Bakri was born in Syria in 1958.[1] He left that country in 1982, following the Assad regime's repression of the Muslim Brotherhood revolt in which he had taken part.[2] He founded Al-Muhajiroun in Saudi Arabia in 1983.[3] Following the proscription of Al-Muhajiroun in Saudi Arabia, Bakri fled to Britain in 1986.[4]

Hizb-ut-Tahrir leader

Bakri subsequently became leader of the British branch of Hizb-ut-Tahrir.[5] He was arrested in 1991 after saying that John Major was a legitimate target for assassination as a result of the Gulf War.[6] He was not charged over the incident.[7]

During the 1990s he supported the KLA in Kosovo.[8] The American intelligence writer John Loftus has claimed he was working with British intelligence at this time.[9]

Forms Al-Muhajiroun

Bakri split with Hizb-ut-Tahrir in early 1996, when he formed his own separate Al-Muhajiroun organisation.[10]

Journalist Mark Curtis reports that in the late 1990s, Bakr claimed to be operating in Britain under a 'covenant of security' with the British state.[11] This must be treated with some caution as it is sourced to a MEMRI report.[12] MEMRI in turn cites an interview with Bakri by Patrick Goodenough for a news site associated with the US conservative movement, CNSNews.com.[13]

Bakri left Britain for Lebanon a month after the 2005 London bombings. The Home Secretary Charles Clarke announced in 2006, that he would not be allowed to return to Britain.[14] Mark Curtis suggests that this was an arrangement designed to conceal potentially embarrassing past links between Bakri and the intelligence community.[15]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Sean O'Neill and Daniel McGrory, The Suicide Factory: Abu Hamza and the Finsbury Park Mosque, HarperCollins, 2006, p.105.
  2. ↑ Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.273.
  3. ↑ Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.244.
  4. ↑ Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.245.
  5. ↑ Sean O'Neill and Daniel McGrory, The Suicide Factory: Abu Hamza and the Finsbury Park Mosque, HarperCollins, 2006, p.105.
  6. ↑ Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.273.
  7. ↑ Sean O'Neill and Daniel McGrory, The Suicide Factory: Abu Hamza and the Finsbury Park Mosque, HarperCollins, 2006, p.113.
  8. ↑ Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.245.
  9. ↑ Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.244.
  10. ↑ Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.273.
  11. ↑ Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.243.
  12. ↑ Yotam Feldner, Radical Islamist Profiles (2): Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad - London, MEMRI, 25 October 2001.
  13. ↑ Patrick Goodenough, UK Muslims Being Trained in US for Jihad, CNSnews.com, 24 May 2000.
  14. ↑ Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.274.
  15. ↑ Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.275.
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