IF JESUS were alive today, he would be behind bars, Muslim extremists are claiming. A post on Islam4uk.com claims that the Son of God would be locked up under anti-terror laws, and would have been extradited to Palestine by the British government.
Last night Bishop Joe Aldred, chairman of Birmingham’s Council of Black Led Churches, described the rant as “political opportunism” and urged communities to work together against extremism.
The radical website is run by Anjem Choudary, aged 41, the former UK head of banned Islamist group al-Muhajiroun, and is popular with young Muslims in the Midlands.
Choudary, who once called for the Pope to be assassinated, was secretly filmed at an Alum Rock youth centre in February, preaching hatred against “unbelievers” and calling for violent Sharia law to be introduced on the streets of Birmingham.
At the bottom of the rant on the website, Choudary encourages readers to get in touch with him, and even leaves his mobile phone number.
The message, posted just days before Christmas, says: “We can envisage that if alive in the UK today, Jesus would undoubtedly have supported the struggle of the indigenous people in Afghanistan and Iraq, as opposed to the capitalist driven US-led alliance.
“As such, and being a Syrian or Palestinian refugee in the UK, he would also have been subjected to a loyalty and allegiance test to ensure that he put Britain and its Prime Minister Brown before God. He would also have been, no doubt, interned under Britain’s new terrorism laws.
“Or maybe he would have been kidnapped by MI5 or Special Branch to be flown on one of their notorious rendition flights, then held hostage and tortured like so many other Muslims in Guantanamo Bay.”
Radical preacher Choudary was a central figure in al-Muhajiroun, which was established by his Islamist mentor Sheikh Omar Bakri.
Earlier this year the Sunday Mercury exposed secret footage of a speech Bakri made calling for the beheading of British servicemen, which is thought to have inspired last year’s terror plot in Birmingham.
The website goes on to claim that Jesus was a Muslim and would have been branded a radical by the British government.
“Jesus was indeed a Muslim and like the Muslims today, called mankind to obey the law of God as opposed to the law of man,” it reads.
“Just as the Muslims in the UK insist that their allegiance is to God alone, similarly Jesus asked his people to obey his Lord as opposed to weak men like Gordon Brown and George Bush, who follow nothing but their own whims and desires.”
Bishop Aldred said he believed religious groups could not be divided by radicals.
“I am immensely proud that here in Birmingham I work with colleagues who are leaders of all the major faiths present in this city,” he said. “We get along in honest friendliness, and encourage our followers to do the same.
“Simply by being people of faith, we have more in common than what divides us. And there is so much that we can achieve in cooperation with one another than we ever could in perennial antagonism.
“We must never give in to political opportunism masquerading as religious truth, from wherever it comes.”
Source: http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2008/12/27/muslim-extremists-claim-jesus-christ-would-have-been-locked-up-in-prison-66331-22559169/
Last night Bishop Joe Aldred, chairman of Birmingham’s Council of Black Led Churches, described the rant as “political opportunism” and urged communities to work together against extremism.
The radical website is run by Anjem Choudary, aged 41, the former UK head of banned Islamist group al-Muhajiroun, and is popular with young Muslims in the Midlands.
Choudary, who once called for the Pope to be assassinated, was secretly filmed at an Alum Rock youth centre in February, preaching hatred against “unbelievers” and calling for violent Sharia law to be introduced on the streets of Birmingham.
At the bottom of the rant on the website, Choudary encourages readers to get in touch with him, and even leaves his mobile phone number.
The message, posted just days before Christmas, says: “We can envisage that if alive in the UK today, Jesus would undoubtedly have supported the struggle of the indigenous people in Afghanistan and Iraq, as opposed to the capitalist driven US-led alliance.
“As such, and being a Syrian or Palestinian refugee in the UK, he would also have been subjected to a loyalty and allegiance test to ensure that he put Britain and its Prime Minister Brown before God. He would also have been, no doubt, interned under Britain’s new terrorism laws.
“Or maybe he would have been kidnapped by MI5 or Special Branch to be flown on one of their notorious rendition flights, then held hostage and tortured like so many other Muslims in Guantanamo Bay.”
Radical preacher Choudary was a central figure in al-Muhajiroun, which was established by his Islamist mentor Sheikh Omar Bakri.
Earlier this year the Sunday Mercury exposed secret footage of a speech Bakri made calling for the beheading of British servicemen, which is thought to have inspired last year’s terror plot in Birmingham.
The website goes on to claim that Jesus was a Muslim and would have been branded a radical by the British government.
“Jesus was indeed a Muslim and like the Muslims today, called mankind to obey the law of God as opposed to the law of man,” it reads.
“Just as the Muslims in the UK insist that their allegiance is to God alone, similarly Jesus asked his people to obey his Lord as opposed to weak men like Gordon Brown and George Bush, who follow nothing but their own whims and desires.”
Bishop Aldred said he believed religious groups could not be divided by radicals.
“I am immensely proud that here in Birmingham I work with colleagues who are leaders of all the major faiths present in this city,” he said. “We get along in honest friendliness, and encourage our followers to do the same.
“Simply by being people of faith, we have more in common than what divides us. And there is so much that we can achieve in cooperation with one another than we ever could in perennial antagonism.
“We must never give in to political opportunism masquerading as religious truth, from wherever it comes.”
Source: http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2008/12/27/muslim-extremists-claim-jesus-christ-would-have-been-locked-up-in-prison-66331-22559169/
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