British Cleric Approves of Targeting Children

While plenty of people in the Middle East and North Africa are horrified at the terrorist massacre in Russia, a British cleric thinks it’s perfectly peachy for Muslim terrorists to target British children if they feel oppressed.

An extremist Islamic cleric based in Britain said yesterday that he would support hostage-taking at British schools if carried out by terrorists with a just cause.

Omar Bakri Mohammed, the spiritual leader of the extremist sect al-Muhajiroun, said that holding women and children hostage would be a reasonable course of action for a Muslim who has suffered under British rule.
Oh, boo fuckity hoo. The human rights of Muslims who live in Britain are overwhelmingly more respected than even in relatively liberal Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa such as Jordan, Tunisia, and Morocco. I’m sure it’s no fun being an ethnic and religious minority, but surely it beats the bootheel of the Baathist jackboot in his home country of Syria. Whatever grievances against the majority Muslims may have in Britain (and I’m sure they have some) it will never be able to touch what the Chechens have against Russia. And even those grievances, horrific as they are, can never excuse the murder of children.

He tries to backpedal slightly by saying it would be okay if an Iraqi took British children hostage, and that it would only be okay if British children were killed in a “crossfire.”

This is disingenuous on multiple levels. For one thing, no Muslim in the world lives “under British rule” the way a British Muslim does. So his little quick-change maneuver over to Iraq isn’t very compelling.

Even if he didn’t mean to include British Muslims among those who live “under British rule” (dubious as that would be) he completely undermines his own attempt at “moderation” by saying the following:

"The Mujahideen [Chechen rebels] would not have wanted to kill those people, because it is strictly forbidden as a Muslim to deliberately kill women and children. It is the fault of the Russians," he said.
Terrorists shot fleeing children in the back. One child was impaled with a bayonet for asking for a drink of water.

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