Noted former British islamist extremist and world-renowned coward Omar Bakri Mohammed continues for some reason to get his extremist pronouncements published in the British and Western press. Despite the fact that he fled Britain for Beirut one step ahead of an indictment, then tried to sneak onto a British ship carrying women and children away from the war in Lebanon, the Telegraph still interviews brave sir jihadi. This time he pontificates about the a Muslim fifth column within the UK's police, military and civil service forces.
In claims condemned as a cynical attempt to create division, the co-founder of the extremist al-Muhajiroun group said that Britain was "digging a deep hole" for itself by allowing Muslims into the Services and Whitehall.
Speaking exclusively to The Sunday Telegraph in Lebanon, where he moved in August 2005 — at about the time it emerged the British authorities might charge him with incitement to treason — he claimed police officers, soldiers and civil servants would one day become radicalised.
"When you start to ask Muslims to join your Army and your police you are making a grave mistake. That British Muslim who joins the police today will one day read the Koran and will have an awakening," he said.
"Those moderates are one day going to be practising Muslims. Now what happens if they are British police or in the Army and they have weapons? How much information do they have about you that they will use to serve the global struggle?
Is there going to some element of extremists getting into the various groups? I would be throughly surprised if there were not. We've had examples of members of other hate groups joining police forces right here in the US. It is going to happen now and then. But this is such a blatant attempt to sow distrust and discord, I'm surprised that the Telegraph published it. I'm even more surprised that they don't mention this guy's attempts to flee the conflicts he promotes in his rants.
