The Times April 24, 2006 Once a friendly Christian, he now backs the bombers By Nicola Woolcock and Sean O'Neill Two faces, two converts - two Muslim extremists in Britain http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,2710-2149298,00.html Abu Izzadeen has posted sermons on the Saved Sect website, and says a war is being fought to establish Islamic law in Britain. Photo: Paul Hackett A BRITISH Muslim convert has emerged as successor to Omar Bakri Mohammad as the leader of a radical group that wants Britain ruled by Islamic law. The Times has obtained transcripts of Omar Brooks, now known as Abu Izzadeen, preaching holy war and discussing killing Tony Blair in a recent sermon in London. Abu Izzadeen had previously described the July 7 bombings as "completely praiseworthy" and organised demonstrations in support of the September 11 hijackers. His organisation, the Saved Sect, was formed from the remnants of the disbanded extremist group al-Muhajiroun, which the Government intended to proscribe. However, it is not on the Home Office's list of 40 banned terrorist organisations, and a spokeswoman refused to comment on whether it could be outlawed. The Crown Prosecution Service has not ruled out charges against Abu Izzadeen, which may include solicitation to murder and withholding information about acts of terrorism. Abu Izzadeen, 31, was born into a Christian family of Jamaican origin, in Hackney, East London, and was known as Trevor to some acquaintances. He converted to Islam at the age of 17 and is believed to have become involved with Bakri at Finsbury Park mosque in the late 1990s. Before he was fully radicalised, Abu Izzadeen trained and worked as an electrician. He eventually chose a new name, which means "Might of the Faith" in Arabic, and immersed himself in his new religion. He married and now lives in Leyton, East London, with his wife and three young children. He is thought to have become the new leader of the Saved Sect. Vitriolic lectures for its website were recorded - until recently - by Bakri, who is in exile in Lebanon. But Abu Izzadeen has started preaching sermons and posting them on the website, suggesting that he has taken over as emir of the Saved Sect. He is one of a generation of young British-born radical converts to step into the shoes of notorious clerics such as Bakri, Abu Qatada and Abu Hamza al-Masri. Abu Hamza is in jail and Abu Qatada is being held without charge under anti-terrorism laws. The Saved Sect, also known as the Saviour Sect, rejects democracy and wants Britain to adopt Sharia, or Islamic law. It believes that it is the only group representing the true Islamic path, but has links with another al-Muhajiroun successor, al-Ghurabaa, whose leader was arrested during extremist protests against the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. In lectures given last month at an unknown London location, Abu Izzadeen said that a war was being fought to make Islamic law "completely dominant" in Britain, and that "all Jews and Christians are going to hell fire". He also praised Mullah Omar, the Taleban leader, saying: "This man is a winner." His lectures, entitled The Christian Crusades parts 1 and 2, describe conflict in the Middle East and Britain as a present-day crusade. Abu Izzadeen said: "There is a war here [in Britain]. Maybe you don't have weapons, but there is [sic] arrests against the Muslim community, there is brutality by the police. It is a form of war against the Muslims here as well." He elicited laughter when he said: "If I said to you we're going to conquer Rome, or if I said to you, we're going to kill George Bush and we're going to kill Tony Blair, you said to me: 'Which come first bro?'. He preached that Muslims did not "need to stand by the British flag", adding: "There is without doubt a war taking place between the Muslims and the non-Muslims . . . you must take part in the struggle. ". . . Tony Blair is a taghoot [believer of false religions]. The British forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, the police in the UK - they are all fighting for the sake of taghoot." Mr Blair announced last August that he would ban "the successor organisation of al-Muhajiroun". The group had praised the September 11 terrorists, describing them as the "Magnificent 19". Legislation tightening the Terrorism Act came into force days ago, when it became illegal to glorify or incite terrorism. A Home Office spokeswoman said: "The list of proscribed organisations is kept under constant review. The Terrorism Act 2006 widens the criteria of proscription to include those groups which glorify terrorism. All possible candidates for proscription will be considered against these criteria." The Saved Sect website carries a statement from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the commander of al-Qaeda in Iraq. On the BBC programme Newsnight last year, Abu Izzadeen said that the July 7 bombings would make people "wake up and smell the coffee". He added that he would never denounce suicide bombings, "even if my own family was to suffer, because we always stand with the Muslims regardless of the consequences". THE SAVED SECT FOR THE SECT'S WEBSITE On Jesus Christ: "We can envisage that, if alive in the UK today, Jesus would undoubtedly have supported jihad in Afghanistan and Iraq, as opposed to the capitalist-driven US-led alliance . . . and would also have been no doubt interned under the Home Secretary Mr Clarke's new terrorism laws, thereby languishing in Belmarsh Prison." On the leaders of the Muslim Council of Britain: "The call of moderate and apostate 'Muslims' upon the Metropolitan Police to take action and arrest the 'extremists' behind the peaceful protests in central London (against the cartoons of Prophet Muhammad) was indeed a call of apostasy and betrayal. "They have repeatedly called for the arrest and deportation of a vast number of Islamic activists, including scholars such as Sheikh Abu Hamza, Sheikh Faisal and Sheikh Abu Qatada - may Allah assist them and release them from captivity." On moderate Muslims: "Since the majority of Muslims living in the West are on the brink of committing apostasy (e.g. by voting for man-made law and allying with the disbelievers), it is important for us to identify the ways in which they are leaving the fold of Islam and tackle these problems directly." On mosques in Britain: "If we look to the reality of the so-called mosques in the Britain today, hardly any are built by Muslims . . . therefore, they cannot be considered to be mosques. These halls have become places of corruption, calling Muslims to vote, inviting kuffar (non-Muslim) MPs and prime ministers, as well as lying about Allah, His Messenger and the religion of Islam. It is even considered to be a form of heresy to call these places Houses of Allah." Under the heading 'Homosexual Today, Paedophile Tomorrow': "Sodomy, bestiality and incest are all crimes that are acceptable in un-Islamic societies . . . Recently the British government legalised homosexual marriages. It was not enough that they allowed homosexuals to practice their vile filth openly, but they felt the need to take a step further into the pits of humanity." The Times April 24, 2006 What the neo-Nazi fanatic did next: switched to Islam By Nicola Woolcock and Dominic Kennedy Two faces, two converts - two Muslim extremists in Britain http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,2710-2149298,00.html David Myatt, who has changed his name to Abdul Aziz ibn Myatt, is a former leader of Combat 18; he now says Islam is the best hope for "fighting the West". Photo: BBC Panorama A NEO-NAZI whose ideas were said to be the inspiration for the man who let off a nail bomb in Central London in 1999 has converted to an extremist form of Islam. David Myatt, a founder of the hardline British National Socialist Movement (NSM) who has been jailed for racist attacks, has changed his name to Abdul Aziz ibn Myatt. David Copeland, who is serving six life sentences after three people died in his Soho bomb attacks, was a member of the NSM. Myatt is reportedly the author of a fascist terrorist handbook and a former leader of the violent far-right group Combat 18. But now - in his mid-50s and sporting a red, bushy beard - he subscribes to radical Islamist views. In an internet essay entitled From Neo-Nazi to Muslim, Myatt asks: "How was it that I, a Westerner with a history of over 25 years of political involvement in extreme right-wing organisations, a former leader of the political wing of the neo-Nazi group Combat 18, came to be standing outside a mosque with a sincere desire to go inside and convert to Islam? "These were the people who I had been fighting on the streets, I had swore (sic) at and had used violence against - indeed, one of my terms of imprisonment was a result of me leading a gang of skinheads in a fight against 'Pakis'." In a later interview, Myatt supports the killing of any Muslim who breaks his oath of loyalty to Islam, and the setting up of a Muslim superstate. He describes himself as having been "staunchly opposed to non-white immigration into Britain and twice jailed for violence in pursuit of my political aims". He added: "I spent several decades of my life fighting for what I regarded as my people, my race and my nation, and endured two terms of imprisonment arising out of my political activities." But his belief is now that: "The pure authentic Islam of the revival, which recognises practical jihad (holy war) as a duty, is the only force that is capable of fighting and destroying the dishonour, the arrogance, the materialism of the West . . . For the West, nothing is sacred, except perhaps Zionists, Zionism, the hoax of the so-called Holocaust, and the idols which the West and its lackeys worship, or pretend to worship, such as democracy. "They want, and demand, that we abandon the purity of authentic Islam and either bow down before them and their idols, or accept the tame, secularised, so-called Islam which they and their apostate lackeys have created. "This may well be a long war, of decades or more - and we Muslims have to plan accordingly. We must affirm practical jihad - to take part in the fight to free our lands from the kuffar (unbelievers). Jihad is our duty." Myatt, who briefly became a monk after his second spell in prison, said that he became a Muslim while working long hours alone on a farm. He grew up in Africa, moved to Britain in 1967 and spent time living in Worcestershire. In July 2000 Searchlight, the anti-fascist magazine, described him as "the most ideologically-driven Nazi in Britain, preaching race war and terrorism". Myatt was the architect of the NSM and was involved in the leadership of Combat 18. He issued a statement in response to the Soho nail bombings saying: "Neither myself nor anyone else connected to the NSM can be held responsible for these bombs in any way. That responsibility lies with the person who constructed them, planted them and caused them to explode. Only that person, and God, know the motive behind the attacks." Myatt said that "all bombs are terrible and barbaric", whether detonated by lone bombers, Western governments in Iraq or Zionists in Palestine. "The NSM considered the creation of a revolutionary situation in this country as necessary since it wished to build an entirely new society, based upon personal honour, and believed this could only be done by destroying the dishonourable and corrupt society of the present. "However, the NSM neither preached, nor sought to incite, what is called 'racial hatred'. Instead, it strove to propagate the warrior values of honour, loyalty and duty, and make the British people aware of, and come to value, their ancestral warrior culture and warrior heritage." Myatt said recently that he had given up hope of a breakthrough by the far Right and believed that Muslims were the best hope for combating Zionism and the West. "There will not be an uprising, a revolution, in any Western nation, by nationalists, racial nationalists, or National Socialists - because these people lack the desire, the motivation, the ethos, to do this and because they do not have the support of even a large minority of their own folk," he said. "If these nationalists, or some of them, desire to aid us, to help us . . . they can do the right thing, the honourable thing, and convert, revert, to Islam - accepting the superiority of Islam over and above each and every way of the West." 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