Omar Bakri Muhammad: Killing Women and Children Allowed?

Omar Bakri Muhammad
The Telegraph
Photo: Ruth Sherlock

In a Telegraph article by reporters Robert Mendick and Robert Verkaik, "Hate cleric Omar Bakri Muhammad preaches killing of women and children on Facebook" (November 29, 2014), we find the following passage:

On Facebook, Bakri justified the killing of all opponents of the jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq[, arguing] that the "Mujahideen" must kill anyone who does not believe in extreme Islam "wherever they find them". He even justified the killing of women and children if they were sheltering in schools or hospitals[, for i]n a section titled "killing women and children" he said this was usually not permissible, but stated: "Having said this, one must distinguish between killing women and children and the Mujahideen fighting the Kuffar [non-believers] enemies wherever they find them, whether that be in a school or hospital or elsewhere."

I have to admit that I can't easily follow this passage on Bakri supplied by The Telegraph. Is Bakri saying that the intentional killing of non-Muslim women and children is allowed by Islam, or is he saying that they can be killed as 'collateral damage' if attacks on schools or even hospitals is necessary because these buildings are being used by forces fighting Muslims?

Clarity matters on issues like this.

Happy Boxing Day!

St. Pugnacious

aka Omar Bakri Muhammad

(Image Ubiqitous)

I've had so many requests for an old Boxing Day favorite in honor of the man who has praised suicide bombings against non-Muslims, who has declared Britain the 'realm of war' (i.e., Al-Harb), and who has demanded that any celebration of Christmas be outlawed -- leaving only Boxing Day, I presume. I'm therefore reposting the song "Infidels" from two years ago:

Infidels

(Sung to the tune of "Silver Bells")

Ex-mas makes you feel emotional...
It may rain body parts through thoughts devotional.
Whatever happens, inshallah, may be,
Here is what Ex-mas time means to me.

City sidewalks, risky sidewalks,
Dressed in houri-day style,
In this lair, there's
a feeling of Ex-mas.

Children coughing, people passing
out mile after mile,
And from every street coroner, you'll hear:

Infidels (infidels)...
infidels (infidels)...
It's Ex-mas time in the city:
(Clear the infidels, go...)
Wring-the-things (wring-the-things)...
hear them scream (hear them scream)...
Soon it will be Ex-mas Day...

City street lights, even stop lights,
blink a bright red and green
As the chopped ones' crushed homes
lose their treasures.

Hear the snow crash, like an avalanche.
This is Al Harb's big scene,
And above all this hustle, you'll hear:

Infidels (infidels)...
infidels (infidels)...
It's Ex-mas time in the city:
(Clear the infidels, go...)
Wring-the-things (wring-the-things)...
hear them scream (hear them scream)...
Soon it will be Ex-mas Day...

Happy Holidays to all my readers . . . and even to Saint Pugnacious, who has been sadly banned from the 'Realm of War' and now unwillingly resides in Lebanon, as I last heard.

By Popular Demand: Saint Pugnacious Sings "Infidels"!

Saint Pugnacious

aka Omar Bakri Muhammad

(Image from BBC News)

Yesterday, which happened to be "Boxing Day," we learned that Omar "St. Pugnacious" Bakri thinks that Christmas should be "completely forbidden" but also that "Christmas Day would be the perfect day to launch a terror attack on the UK."

Bakri has not yet realized the contradiction in these two thoughts -- if Christmas were "completely forbidden," how could he "launch" his "terror attack" on Christmas Day?

"Ah," retorts Bakri, ever quick on his toes, "the attack would launch on Ex-mas Day!"

Then, from on those ever-quick toes, Bakri launches himself into a grand jeté, lands softly, performs a pirouette, and breaks into his favorite tune, "Infidels," an Islamist adaptation of that lovely Christmas song "Silver Bells," first sung by Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell in the 1951 comedy, The Lemon Drop Kid.

Enough of that trivia, heeeeere's Bakri!

Ex-mas makes you feel emotional...
It may rain body parts through thoughts devotional.
Whatever happens, inshallah, may be,
Here is what Ex-mas time means to me.

City sidewalks, risky sidewalks,
Dressed in houri-day style,
In this lair, there's
a feeling of Ex-mas.

Children coughing, people passing
out mile after mile,
And from every street coroner, you'll hear:

Infidels (infidels)...
infidels (infidels)...
It's Ex-mas time in the city:
(Clear the infidels, go...)
Wring-the-things (wring-the-things)...
hear them scream (hear them scream)...
Soon it will be Ex-mas Day...

City street lights, even stop lights,
blink a bright red and green
As the chopped ones' crushed homes
lose their treasures.

Hear the snow crash, like an avalanche.
This is Al Harb's big scene,
And above all this hustle, you'll hear:

Infidels (infidels)...
infidels (infidels)...
It's Ex-mas time in the city:
(Clear the infidels, go...)
Wring-the-things (wring-the-things)...
hear them scream (hear them scream)...
Soon it will be Ex-mas Day...

Happy Holidays to all my readers, from Gypsy Scholar . . . and even from Saint Pugnacious.

Happy Boxing Day!

Saint Pugnacious

aka Omar Bakri Muhammad

(Image from 12/24/07 Daily Mail)

To all my British and Commonwealth readers: St. Pugnacious wishes you a Happy Boxing Day!

However, this saint, better known as Omar Bakri Muhammad, conveys somewhat less joyful greetings concerning Christmas itself. A recent article in the Daily Mail reports this message:

Omar Bakri . . . is calling on Brits to boycott Christmas. Using the internet to post . . . against the festive season, Bakri claims Christmas should be "completely forbidden" . . . . He said: "To have Christmas tree, visit so-called Christmas Father -- that is completely forbidden. Make sure you do not watch TV. Do not let them hear jingle bells. Do not send your children on Christmas trip." ("Hate cleric Omar Bakri calls for 'ban' on Christmas" Daily Mail, 12/24/2007)

Do not let them hear jingle bells? According to The Polar Express, one can only hear Christmas bells jingle if one truly believes in Christmas, so I'm inferring that Omar Bakri has seen this film and understands the significance of hearing Christmas bells. But how can good Islamist parents ensure that their children not hear those damned bells? How does Omar Bakri do it? Wouldn't he himself have to actually hear an infidel bell? Perhaps he even discovers himself singing along to that catchy Christmas tune "Silver Bells" but conducts an inner spiritual struggle not to believe and so alters the words to render a more acceptable Islamist version:

Infidels (infidels)...
Infidels (infidels)...
It's Xmas time in the city:
(Clear the infidels, go...)
Wring-the-things (wring-the-things)...
Hear them scream (hear them scream)...
Soon it will be Xmas Day...

Such a properly militant rewording of that otherwise lovely song would better fit with Omar Bakri's view that "Christmas Day would be the perfect day to launch a terror attack on the UK."

So . . . no, Omar Bakri doesn't like Christmas. But Boxing Day? St. Pugnacious says it's an okay day. Any day devoted to the spirit of fighting is a day that he can appreciate.