Britain- Anti-Semitic Muslim preacher Deported

Abdullah al-Faisal, who vocally advocated the killing of Jews as well as other non-Muslims, was sent back to his native Jamaica after serving four years of a seven year jail sentence.

The 43-year-old previously served as the Imam at the Brixton Mosque in south London. But his extremist preaching caught the attention of the British authorities in 2003.

In April of that year he became the first Islamic preacher to be convicted of soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred in Britain. The court had heard how al-Faisel, who converted to Islam some years earlier, had distributed tapes of his sermons with titles such as No Peace with the Jews in a number of London’s radical Islamic book shops.

The former Imam, who was previously known as William Forest is also believed to have influenced 19-year-old suicide bomber Germaine Lindsey who blew himself up on a London Underground tube train on July 7, 2005 killing 26 people.

Al-Faisal, who was raised as a Christian and moved to England 20 years ago, flew to Jamaica’s capital city Kingston from Gatwick Airport in England on May 24, along with two police officers and an immigration officer.

Date: 24/05/07

Posted: 06/06/07

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