Sajeel Shahid

Sajeel Shahid
Other names Abu Ibrahim
Occupation computer scientist
Known for Helping to lead a proscribed Islamist group based in the United Kingdom

Sajeel Shahid is one of the leaders of Al-Muhajiroun, an Islamist group based in the United Kingdom that endorsed al Qaeda's terror attacks on September 11, 2001.[1]

In 2004 he was a member of a panel of Al-Muhajiroun leaders interviewed by BBC Newsnight which quoted him as saying,[2]

"When they speak about September 11th, when the two planes magnificently run through those buildings, OK and people turn around and say, 'hang on a second, that is barbaric. Why did you have to do that?' You know why? Because of ignorance. ... For us it's retaliation. Islam is not the starter of wars. If you start the war we won't turn the other cheek. ... According to you it can't be right. According to Islam it's right. When you talk about innocent civilians, do you not kill innocent civilians in Iraq?"[2]

In 2005 Nick Fielding, writing for the Sunday Times, reported that Sajeel Shahid had run a Lahore safe house for violent extremists from the United Kingdom.[1] Pakistan expelled him in 2005, after three months of detention.[3]

In 2007 Padraic Flanagan, writing in the Daily Express, reported that Sajedl Shahid had gone underground, and had not been found to testify at the trials of other British muslims for bombing.[3]

Sajeel Shahid has a degree in computer science from Manchester.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Nick Fielding (2005-07-24). "Terror links of the Tottenham Ayatollah: Nick Fielding reveals the influence of a preacher once seen as a mere loudmouth". The Sunday Times. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article547466.ece. Retrieved 2010-10-24. "More worrying is the number of ALM members associated with violence abroad. One journalist who visited an ALM safe house in Lahore before the authorities closed it said that recruits from Britain referred to Indians as “subhumans” and were violently opposed to homosexuals and Jews. The house was run by Sajeel Shahid, known as Abu Ibrahim, who holds a computer science degree from Manchester. In January he was freed after three months in jail and expelled from Pakistan for his alleged support of Al-Qaeda."  mirror
  2. ^ a b "Al-Muhajiroun". BBC News. 2004-04-29. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3670007.stm. Retrieved 2010-10-24. "Look to capitalism, it has only existed for 75 years and it's crumbling already. Communism is finished. The only other ideological belief around now, not a religion, Islam is not a religion. Let's make it clear. It's a political ideological belief."  mirror
  3. ^ a b Padraic Flanagan (2007-05-02). "THREE TERROR SUSPECTS MISSING ON OUR STREETS". Daily Express. http://www.express.co.uk/news/view/5970. Retrieved 2010-10-24. "And Islamic militant Sajeel Shahid, thought to be the leader of the banned group Al Muhajiroun in Pakistan, is alleged to have set up a training camp where 7/7 ringleader Mohammad Sidique Khan and Bluewater leader Omar Khyam learned bomb-making."  mirror