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| By: Associated Press |
| Published: January 18, 2006 |
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A Muslim cleric being tried in Britain on charges of incitement to murder told supporters that Jews and Christians were on a list of enemies of Islam in a videotaped speech shown at his trial Tuesday.
Egyptian-born Abu Hamza al-Masri also claimed in an 1998 sermon that Jewish people were being trained to kill Muslims.
Al-Masri, 47, faces life in prison if convicted of inciting murder and stirring racial hatred in speeches recorded on nine video and audio tapes made for supporters. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Prosecutors played a 90-minute video recording of the lecture to jurors, in which al-Masri listed those who posed a threat to Muslims.
He said the first enemies of Islam were "tyrants and apostates of our leaders. Jews number two, Christians number three, evil scholars of Muslims number four, hypocrites number five, ignorance of our Umma (the Islamic community) number six."
Al-Masri also said Jews were "training the women to kill our men and our children ... they kill our men as if they are playing a video game."
Until 2003, Al-Masri was head preacher at Finsbury Park mosque in north London, which has been linked to several terrorist suspects, including alleged Sept. 11 plotter Zacarias Moussaoui and "shoe bomber" Richard Reid.
British authorities have charged al-Masri, whose real name is Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, with multiple counts of inciting the killing of Jews and other non-Muslims, using threatening or abusive language designed to stir racial hatred, and possessing a terrorism-related document.
He is wanted in the United States on an 11-count indictment from 2004 that charges him with conspiring to provide material support to the al-Qaida terror network by establishing a training camp in Oregon, conspiring to take hostages in Yemen and facilitating training in Afghanistan. |
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