UK extremist to lecture on jihad
Caroline Overington
August 06, 2005

ONE of Britain's most radical Muslim converts, Abdur Raheem Green,
will visit Australia later this month to lecture on the importance 
of jihad.

Mr Green -- a British citizen born Anthony Green, who has two wives
and six children -- was invited to Sydney by the Islamic Development
Centre of Australia. In previous speeches, he has said Muslims and
Westerners "cannot live peaceably together".

"The truth is that Islam teaches its followers to seek death on the
battle field, that dying whilst fighting jihad is one of the surest
ways to paradise and Allah's good pleasure," he said.

He says conflict between Islam and the West is "not only sanctioned
but ordered in the Koran".

Mr Green's visit will be preceded by another seminar on August 13 when
three local sheiks, including a cleric accused of having links to
terrorist organisations, will speak on the topic "Jihad: Terrorism? 
Or a Muslim's Highest Aspiration?".

Tickets for the events are being distributed by Muslim bookshops,
mosques and welfare agencies.

Sheik Abdul Salam Zoud, who has twice been accused of having links 
to terrorism, will speak at the event organised by the Muslim Women's
Association.

Spanish authorities claimed last year that Sheik Zoud had been in
contact with al-Qa'ida leaders in Europe. American authorities say he
is linked to a cleric recently charged with attempting to wage war on
the US. The sheik denies the charges.

A Muslim Women's Association spokeswoman said the group chose the word
"jihad" as the topic of the lecture "because it gets attention".

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Full article at "The Australian" 
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/
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Cheers, Steve..

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