Intro


Below is a press release from the followers in the UK, showing that they were promoting the event of Sep11 as positively:


Press Release Dated 10th September 2002
Following intense media interest in the Islamic Conference due to be held this Wednesday the 11th of September 2002 at Finsbury Park Mosque, the organisers, Al-Muhajiroun, would like to make it clear that: 1. The participants, which include leaders from the Muslim community (but no one from Hizb ut-Tahrir) will not be celebrating the events of the 11th of September, but rather will be analysing and highlighting the lessons which can be derived from the incident and what has subsequently followed regarding the nature of the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims around the world and the new format of the relationship between countries in the international arena.
2. The event will discuss the positive outcomes from the 11th September not least of which is the clear crystallisation of the two camps of Islam and Kufr (non-Islam), of believers and hypocrites and of those who follow the Messenger Muhammad (saw) and his companions (the salafis) and those deviant from this path.
3. Muslim leaders will be announcing the launch of the Islamic Council of Britain (ICB), to represent the true Islamic stance on issues affecting Muslims both in Britain and abroad, without compromise, without fear of anyone apart from Allah and purely to please Allah (SWT). Moreover the ICB will not be funded by any government (contrary to reports in Sundays Telegraph) and have not '…secured a six-figure sum for funding the ICB…' from Saudi Arabia.
4. The Islamic Council of Britain (ICB) is in contrast to the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) who, as we all know, have sold the Muslims out to the British government, in return for being recognised as the 'official voice of the Muslims' and who believe that Muslims must apostatise themselves by taking an oath of allegiance to the Queen and in their actions obey man made law as opposed to God's law. The ICB are therefore a different sect (firqah) from the MCB, the ICB belonging to the minority Salafiyyah sect (also known as Firqah Naajiyyah or the 'saved sect'), whereas the MCB belong to the majority Ilmaaniyyah sect (i.e. secularists).
5. Claims by secular 'moderate' so-called Muslims that we 'feed on people with little knowledge of Islam' that we want to spread 'hate and destruction' or that 'Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad is widely despised by Muslims' are made by non-practising Secularists about their own sect of people, whose only excuse for remaining Muslims as opposed to Murtadeen (apostates) is their obvious ignorance about the reality of Islam and the Shari'ah as practised by the Messenger Muhammad (saw) and his companions.
6. Sadly secular Muslims make up the majority of Muslims in a world which lacks Islam implemented as a law and order (i.e. Al-Khilafah) and whose idea of Islam is that based upon their own desires and that which Tony Blair or George Bush dictate as opposed to that which Allah (SWT) has revealed to the Messenger Muhammad (saw). Indeed the challenge is there for anyone to state otherwise basing his or her argument on the Qur'an and Sunnah (tradition of the Messenger Muhammad (saw)) as understood by his companions (ra).
We pray that Allah (SWT) guides us all to the truth.