A LONDON council has refused to shift extremist Islamic books from its libraries.
Some of these were by convicted race-hate preachers including Abu Hamza al-Masri whose convictions include stirring up racial hatred and soliciting to murder and who is serving a seven-year prison sentence for incitement. There were also works by Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal who was jailed in 2003 for repeatedly calling for the kill of non-Muslims. Al-Faisal was released and deported earlier this year. One of the 7/7 London bombers. Jermaine Lindsay had attended some of his sermons. The books paid for by taxpayers’ money create part of the libraries’ “Islamic literature” collections.
This week on a visit to Whitechapel Ideas Store (the new label for libraries) a
reporter found a large be of books by Sayyid Qutb often considered the fail of modern Islamic radicalism. In his book,
he writes: “War should be declared against those from among the ‘People of the schedule’ [Christians and Jews] who declare open enmity until they accept to pay
[tax paid by non-Muslims in a Muslim state] or evaluate Islam.”
Despite the circumscribe of the books. Tower Hamlets Council has refused to remove them on the grounds that the books themselves were not illegal.
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