Word: bakri
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...Soraya (Suheir Hammad), a young Palestinian woman born in Lebanon and brought up in Brooklyn, goes to Jaffa to claim money her grandfather lost in the "catastrophe" (the founding of the Israeli state). There she meets handsome young Emad (Saleh Bakri, the young stud from The Band's Visit) and gets embroiled with him in a crime that might be described as the reassignment of property. The politics are plausible, the lead actors charming enough, and it's nice to see Palestine by sunset. But in its making, this is an all-too-familiar melodrama. Ordinary is the last word...
...influencing young men to join the jihad. Many of the MAGNIFICENT 19 stickers plastered on lampposts and walls across Britain have been scratched off by authorities, but police rarely disrupt al-Muhajiroun's stalls or meetings. Last month police raided the homes of the group's leaders, Sheik Omar Bakri Muhammad and Anjem Choudary, but both men remain at liberty...
...Muhajiroun is typical of the zealous Islamist fringe that targets disaffected young Muslims in Britain. Anti-Jew, antigay and antipornography, the group, founded in London by Syrian-born Bakri, is patient in its approach but extremist in its long-term goals. It wants to see Islam's flag fly over Downing Street in a new caliphate in which Muslims are united in one great borderless state under Shari'a law. The highly active group stages meetings all around Britain on a daily basis and claims to have branches in 30 British cities and offices in 21 countries, including a presence...
...shifting crowd of itinerant young Muslim men, many of them Algerian, to whom he offers shelter and anonymity. Still, the raid did leave bruised feelings in the Muslim community, despite police insistence they avoided searching the prayer hall and covered their shoes before entering the building. Omar Bakri, the founder of the extremist Al-Muhajiroun movement and a visiting preacher at Finsbury Park, calls the raid a way "to silence the Muslims before bombing Iraq." But Algerian Refugee Council founder Mohammed Sekkoum, who claims Abu Hamza is tarnishing the image of Muslims, was also unhappy. "The raid was very aggressive...
When could an attack come? Omar Bakri Muhammad, the London-based leader of the radical Muslim al-Muhajiroun youth movement, points to the month of Ramadan, which began Nov. 6. It is "the month of jihad," he told TIME, when "the inspiration of fighting against occupiers and invaders will be very high. That is why I would not be surprised if al-Qaeda strikes in the month of Ramadan." Scared yet? --By Bruce Crumley/Paris, Helen Gibson/London and Steve Zwick/Cologne