Cambridge imam on gas cans in jihadis’ car: “Maybe they used to sell petrol”
posted at 4:28 pm on July 9, 2007 by Allahpundit
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It seems like just yesterday we were listening to Hassan Butt critiquing the denialist impulse in Islamic culture. Not quite; it was Friday, right around the same time the imam of the mosque the Glasgow ringleader used to attend was unwittingly proving his point.
Sejad Mekic, the imam at the Cambridge mosque which [Bilal] Abdullah also attended, gave a sermon on Friday condemning all acts of terror.
However, he later said he had doubts that the incident at Glasgow airport was a terrorist attack, saying it could have been a car accident.
“I still haven’t made my conclusion,” he said.
When it was pointed out that containers of petrol were reportedly found in the car, he said: “Maybe they used to sell petrol.”
Follow the link and read all about how Kafeel Ahmed, the jihadi who ended up outside Glasgow’s airport being kicked in the balls by a cabbie and having John “Braveheart” Smeaton settin’ aboot him, lived right next door to the local organizer for Hizb ut-Tahrir, the “nonviolent” Islamic supremacist group that calls for reinstitution of the caliphate in the Middle East. And funny thing: their rooms just happened to be located above the “moderate” Islamic Center, with fundamentalist nut Bilal Abdulla reportedly paying regular visits and no one around knowing anything about anything. As for the imam’s take on the attack, it’s standard reaction among a significant minority of Muslims any time jihadis strike. A poll of British Muslims earlier this year found 24% doubted the London bombers were really responsible for that atrocity; the notorious Pew poll of U.S. Muslims in May found 40% doubt that 9/11 was perpetrated by Arabs. Which, in fairness, isn’t all that fringe a position anymore in this country. In fact, Rob Port thinks it’s high time we poll Congress and find out just how fringe or not it is.
Update: More good news about Kafeel Ahmed.
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Maybe they were crash test dummies.
The Race Card on July 9, 2007 at 4:35 PM
So, the guy who doused himself with gasoline wasn’t a doctor? Might explain why he set himself on fire. May sound good in theory, not so good in practice.
Blake on July 9, 2007 at 4:40 PM
I love you, AP.
Back on topic, maybe the 9/11 hijackers thought they were playing a video game.
mjk on July 9, 2007 at 4:41 PM
A Muslim selling gasoline?
I’ve never heard of such.
TheSitRep on July 9, 2007 at 4:42 PM
And… and… they were making a … delivery…
Yeah… thats the ticket…
They were delivering Petrol, and butane for the … uh… annual Farrah Fawcett Majors Celebratory Weinie Roast…
Farrah… whom I’ve slept with… once flew through that airport… and the barbeque is in that honor..
Yeah… thats the ticket…
Romeo13 on July 9, 2007 at 4:43 PM
I still want to know what is the carbon footprint of a self-immolating jihadi, and whether it is sufficiently offset by Smeaton’s footprint in his groin.
Lee on July 9, 2007 at 4:45 PM
They were just independent fuel contractors making a delivery of jet fuel at the airport. Yeah, that’s the ticket!
kjspeedial on July 9, 2007 at 4:46 PM
This happened in Great Britain. Not Iraq or Afghanistan. I seriously doubt these professional men were in the habit of hawking gas on street corners in their spare time for some extra change. Not to mention illegal. That was a pathetic excuse as you would expect from these low-lifes. Apparently one of the main problems with the religion of pieces is that it assumes that everyone is as stupid or as gullible as they are. The Infidels ask questions that 7th century intellect just can’t deal with. Then they are shocked and outraged when we laugh at their foolishness. Islam needs to be outlawed. Period. It should be recognized as a terrorist organization in and of itself. These kinds of things can and will go on forever otherwise.
Guardian on July 9, 2007 at 4:46 PM
I’m about 2/3 through Robert Spencer’s “Islam Unveiled”, and it’s scaring the crap out of me. I’m not really much for profiling whole groups of people based on religious beliefs, but the evidence is mounting in my mind that this Islam thing is a very very bad force - one that actually drives people towards what we up to now have been calling “radical jihadism”. It may be radical from a western “liberal” (human freedom as the greatest good) point of view, but I don’t think it’s a “radical” form of Islam - just the real deal with the natural human kindness stripped off.
We could be in for a very big battle over the next few decades.
peski on July 9, 2007 at 4:47 PM
I get it those wealthy doctors (oh, wait, this is socialized medicine we’re talking about, so maybe not so wealthy) actually work at the corner Q8 during off hours. Right-o.
Mindcrime on July 9, 2007 at 4:49 PM
Oh, and the whole “setting themselves on fire thing” was just to demonstrate the superior combustibility of their product.
kjspeedial on July 9, 2007 at 4:52 PM
LOL… and just what is the Carbon footprint of a Katushkya Rocket fired into Israel?
Don’t those dirty Jihadists know we’re trying to save the world from Global Warminig???
Romeo13 on July 9, 2007 at 4:53 PM
Excuses, Excuses.
Excuses are like {you know}, everybody’s got one.
Lawrence on July 9, 2007 at 4:53 PM
I’m glad they cited the quotation, as Sejad Mekic. Thought it might have been Ivrahim Hooper for a minute.
I know that 24% number has been out there for awhile. I’m still not sure what to make of it: denial or deliberate misconstruction.
Spirit of 1776 on July 9, 2007 at 4:53 PM
The Magic 8-Ball says “Chances Are Very Good”.
natesnake on July 9, 2007 at 4:59 PM
Guardian and peski: An op-ed by Theodore Dalrymple in Sunday’s LA Times (of all places) made its way through Hot Air’s “Headlines” list yesterday. Given your comments above, check it out if you missed it…
Lee on July 9, 2007 at 5:02 PM
…. and he didn’t kick him in the nads, he was just stomping out the fire…
On-my-soap-box on July 9, 2007 at 5:06 PM
John Smeaton ought to set about him.
RightWinged on July 9, 2007 at 5:12 PM
Romeo13…If you slept with Farrah your weinie has already been roasted !
DoctorDentons on July 9, 2007 at 5:13 PM
Maybe we should start deporting Imams from the United States, too.
georgej on July 9, 2007 at 5:20 PM
Yes…and Mohamed Atta…He simply asked the airline pilot if he could sit in the Captain’s seat for a few minutes.
Are they all just a bunch of ostriches with their heads stuck in the sand?
HarryStar on July 9, 2007 at 5:23 PM
Lee on July 9, 2007 at 4:45 PM
I’m pretty sure Smeaton needs to buy some beer offset credits from me…….
doriangrey on July 9, 2007 at 5:28 PM
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/suncommentary/la-op-dalrymple8jul08,1,406274.story?coll=la-headlines-suncomment&ctrack=1&cset=true
Very thoughtful piece, and represents pretty well where I am right now.
peski on July 9, 2007 at 5:31 PM
And they were ignited by an Israeli missile!
see-dubya on July 9, 2007 at 5:37 PM
And the last piece of the puzzle falls in place.
Spirit of 1776 on July 9, 2007 at 5:38 PM
Maybe what this imam is saying is crazy enough to be true. I mean, Allahpundit, accusing worshippers of the religion of peace of terrorism, well, that’s just crazy talk.
Be honest, Hot Air people. Haven’t you ever lost your cell phone and it happenned to be used as a detonator in a car bomb? And really, who among us has not spontaneously combusted into a human fireball while speeding through the front doors of the local airport in our cars and then duked it out with the cops?
This could all be just a series of coincidences and misunderstandings.
Tantor on July 9, 2007 at 5:43 PM
True dat, true dat. Why not too long ago I took my cousin to the airport, spontaneously combusted and got kicked in the nards by a cab driver. And I’m a girl, living in Montana!!
mjk on July 9, 2007 at 5:47 PM
He was just trying to get used to the fire in hell before he got send there by God to spend eternity with Allah, “Prince of Destruction and Evil”TM.
Tim Burton on July 9, 2007 at 5:51 PM
Are you cute under than Burqa? Can I have some Islamic face porn? Post a pic….
Tim Burton on July 9, 2007 at 5:53 PM
There are things that are said amongst themselves that cannot/will not be said in the presence of infidels. Plus it is just dandy , heck, expected to tell lies to kaffirs. Therefore I am totally suspect of anything any of these people say when they know that other ears are listening, let alone printing or broadcasting to the general populace.
bbz123 on July 9, 2007 at 6:03 PM
How DARE you assume I’m Muslim. Don’t you know terrorists are from vast and varied backgrounds??? Haven’t you been paying attention to the news??
mjk on July 9, 2007 at 6:07 PM
And why would this Imam lie? Find the answer in the Koran.
Mojave Mark on July 9, 2007 at 6:16 PM
So, terrorists are just “Paradise Booking Agents” then I suppose?
lorien1973 on July 9, 2007 at 6:25 PM
can’t he come up with a lie that might make sense? Like maybe it was imported petrol. they brought it from a mideast country where they paid a fraction what they are going to sell it for in the UK.
clghitis on July 9, 2007 at 6:26 PM
And maybe they were planning on causing carnage and wanton destruction, you livestock-stupid porch monkey!
thejackal on July 9, 2007 at 6:59 PM
I’m just thinking how disappointed all those virgins are going to be when Mr. Nuts Kicked Off gets to heaven.
TexasDan on July 9, 2007 at 7:03 PM
Are you sure ol Sejad wasn’t doing stand up? Ala Dennis Miller.
countywolf on July 9, 2007 at 7:19 PM
I often buy my gas from random Jeeps at Scottish airports.
They even pour it for you.
But some are pretty messy.
One such freelancing dealer got it all over himself, and, when he lit a fag, burst into a ball of fire (CUE: Jerry Lee Lewis…)
Happens all the time.
profitsbeard on July 9, 2007 at 8:02 PM
I think it’s far more likely that they were gas can designers. Everyone knows that Pakistan leads the world in gas can design and all Pakistanis take gas can design in school. Obviously, this is all a racist swipe at the gas can loving country of Pakistan.
progressoverpeace on July 9, 2007 at 9:09 PM
Ya okay,and playing with plutonium and nuclear
components is a MUSLIM HOBBY.
canopfor on July 9, 2007 at 9:47 PM
Fixed…
Reminds me of the scene from Airplane when the captain invites the boy into the cockpit during the flight…”here, sit on my lap, say have you ever seen a grown man naked…” only Atta and the rest of the terrorist scumbags on 9-11 weren’t funny…at all! “Over Macho Grande?” “No, I’ll never get over Macho Grande…”
Well if it wasn’t sufficiently off-set the crispy jihadi can always buy some additional carbon off-sets with the extra money he made from selling petrol out of his jeep at the airport…if he lives!
Yep, excuses, they got a million of them, not to mention they are experts at playing the victim to distract from from the fact they (this includes the elusive “moderate Muslim!”) agree with and support terrorism and the ultimate goal of a world under the caliphate of strict Sharia law!
About the only thing more pathetic then this dirt-bags “excuse” (propaganda) are the gullible left-tard apologist, give appeasement a chance crowd that not only believe their propaganda and excuses, they help to propagate it!!
Nope, they aren’t in denial in the least, they are experts at propaganda, excuses, and playing the victim! It’s all propaganda designed to distract the useful idiots (apoligist left) from their true intentions and to cause a division within our nation because a divided nation is easier to conquer!
Liberty or Death on July 10, 2007 at 1:40 AM
Ooh, ooh, I can play this game.
A bridge in Chappaquiddick.
Freelancer on July 10, 2007 at 6:06 AM
Yeah, but can’t they be good lies for once?
Self-parody, thy name is Imam.
James on July 10, 2007 at 8:00 AM
Working their way through medical school selling gas. Seems perfectly logical to me.
The “crash” itself? The driver was obviously overcome by fumes and lost control.
I blame big oil.
(do I really need a sarc tag on this comment?)
soundingboard on July 10, 2007 at 4:18 PM