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he went there on a false passport iirc
That rings a bell now you say it...

Aw. Shame for him. I'm sure with a good PR company the US could be a right cash cow for him. :(

Mind you, if he has backers in positions of influence, maybe it's not off the cards - particularly if he's now marketing himself as generically anti-extremism, and distancing himself from the far-right.

In fact, just a fleeting thought but could that even be a motivation for his recent move...? :confused:
 
I've got a mate who's convinced he's MI5 and was part of a operation to draw the far right apart into meaningless protests rather than fighting elections like the BNP...
 
An old article in The Guardian, by Seumas Milne back in 2008, but still relevant:
Interestingly, Husain and the Quilliam Foundation hail another Egyptian cleric, Sheikh Ali Gomaa, the Grand Mufti of Egypt, as a "scholastic giant" making a brave stand against extremism. Last year, David Cameron also went out of his way to praise Gomaa and the Times called him "the wise mufti".
Who is also on record....
.....as defending Palestinian suicide bombings, including against Israeli civilians (as well as endorsing wife-beating in some cultures). The crucial difference between Gomaa and Qaradawi is not their religious rulings on Palestine or other social questions - or their shared hostility to terror attacks in the west - but that Qaradawi is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, the most popular opposition movement in the Arab world, while Gomaa is appointed by the pro-western Mubarak dictatorship.
 
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An old article in The Guardian, by Seumas Milne back in 2008, but still relevant.

Who is also on record....

Interestingly I think Ken Livingstone defended his closeness to Qaradawi on the basis that his support for suicide bombings in the Palestinian liberation struggle but opposition to Al-Qaeda gave him a legitimacy that was helpful in discouraging the radicalisation of Muslims in the UK. I'm pretty sure that he said that Mi5 encouraged him to continue to be close to Qaradawi on that basis.
 
I've got a mate who's convinced he's MI5 and was part of a operation to draw the far right apart into meaningless protests rather than fighting elections like the BNP...


I never bought that theory, they were just too shit and ineffective at doing just that. I suspect state intel would have done some kind of better job.
 
where to said:
Mo Ansar now trying to get the credit for this, says he's been working with SYL for 18 months "on a project"

And seemed to be saying he was pissed off at SYL and QF for what they did today, without elaborating.
 
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Apparently Tommy has been making a documentary with the BBC about his views, life, etc for over 9 months and meeting people like Salma Yaqoob, the journey has 'changed him'
 
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