{"id":1538,"date":"2002-07-18T13:05:12","date_gmt":"2002-07-18T18:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2002-07-18T13:05:12","modified_gmt":"2002-07-18T18:05:12","slug":"muslim_fundamentalists_hold_conference_in_london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/07\/muslim_fundamentalists_hold_conference_in_london\/","title":{"rendered":": Muslim &#8216;Fundamentalists&#8217; Hold Conference in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Britain has seen more polarity in Muslim ideology than other Western countries as of late. Add to that an unlikely conference <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk%2Fhi%2Fenglish%2Fuk%2Fnewsid_2126000%2F2126174.stm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">held last week<\/a> by a group called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.almuhajiroun.com%2Fpr%2Fuk%2F12-07-02.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Al-Muhajiroun<\/a>, widely considered a militant, anti-West organization. Although the 150 people in attendance indicated a bark worse than its bite, British tabloids have gasped at the pro-Osama revelry and requisite blind and disfigured imams such as Abu Hamza al-Masri, who Yemen wants Britain to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahram.org.eg%2Fweekly%2F1999%2F415%2Fre4.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">extradite<\/a> on terrorism charges related to the murder of European tourists in 1998 by a group linked to Masri\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.al-bab.com%2Fyemen%2Fhamza%2Fhamza1.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Supporters of Shariah<\/a> (he was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org%2Farticles%2F1999%2Fmar1999%2Fyem-m26.shtml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">arrested and released<\/a> in the UK on these charges and Britain is reluctant to extradite). Another speaker, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cairotimes.com%2Fcontent%2Fissues%2FIslists%2Flondon21.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Yasser al-Sirri<\/a> is wanted by both Egypt and the US. Inayat Bungalawala of the mainstream <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcb.org.uk\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Muslim Council of Britain<\/a> said the meeting reflected the views of a small minority. \u201cNo mainstream Muslim organization will touch al-Muhajiroun with a barge pole,\u201d he said. The feeling goes both ways, as conference organizers accuse MCB of being a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.almuhajiroun.com%2Flnews%2FMay%2F24-05-02.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">puppet organization<\/a> of the British government. <\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Zahed Amanullah is associate editor of altmuslim.com.\u00a0 He is based in London, England.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A meeting described by the British press as a Muslim fundamentalist conference features speakers with alleged links to terrorism. 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