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Jews. Writers commonly use the Quran and Hadiths in order to provide justification for arguments that are entirely unfounded. For example, Al-Masri claims there is religious legitimacy for attacking Jews because the Prophet Mohammed said, “You (i.e Muslims) will fight against the Jews till some of them will hide behind stones. The stones will betray them saying, oh slave of Allah! There is a Jew hiding behind me; so kill him”.85 A second Hadith quoted by the preacher states, ‘The hour will not come until you fight against the Jews’. 86

Ever since the fundamentalist movement first emerged in the UK around the mid-1990s, associates have pushed a political narrative that argues Jews represent the greatest threat to Islam. Consequently, all Muslims are encouraged to despise Jews and actively work towards wiping Israel off the face of the earth. In issue 10 of Al- Jihad magazine, Al-Masri tells readers that, ‘Jews have always killed Prophets, and religious teachers and leaders’.87 _{He then states that Allah has commanded Muslims} to ‘fight against them [Jews] so that Allah will punish them by your hands and disgrace them and give them victory over them’.88 _{From an international relations} perspective, fundamentalist blame Jews for the sanctions on Iraq that caused the deaths of millions of Muslim men, women and children. Al-Masri argues there were two types of people involved in the crusade against Saddam Hussain, Christians and Jews. Rhetorically he suggests that although the US and UK implemented sanctions and the no-fly zones, Jews directed their actions thereby making them even more culpable for the destruction of this once great nation. Although not discussed in the article, fundamentalists were fully aware of the 1981 Israeli air strike on Iraqi nuclear facilities - evidence that Israel has long feared a nuclear-armed Iraq posed a significant threat to its national security.

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85 _{A. Al-Masri, ‘Issue 10’, Al-Jihad Magazine, Circa 1998,}

www.angelfire.com/bc3/johnsonuk/eng/magazine/aj1.html, (accessed 28th October 2014)

86_Ibid. 87_Ibid.

Al-Masri discusses the Jews and their occupation of Palestine in a two-hour sermon given in 1997/98 to a private meeting of fundamentalists in Whitechapel, East London.89 He begins by arguing the Jews have enslaved western leaders who in fact hate them more than the Muslims. Guilty of inciting racial hatred and violence, Al- Masri claims that ultimately, God will wipe the Jews and the state of Israel of the face of the earth. Recognising the sanctity of the Al-Aqsa mosque, the message to fundamentalists from Al-Masri is emotive and provocative, ‘the tunnels that they [the Israelis] dug underneath the al-Aqsa mosque will be filled with their skulls and their bodies’. 90 In the years preceding the second intifada, fundamentalists strongly rejected the legitimacy of Yassar Arafat and the Palestinian Authority. Labelled a

dirty rat by Al-Masri, Arafat attracted widespread international criticism for surrendering 87% of Palestinian land to the Israelis.

Showing openly his disgust for the Jews and the alleged traitor Arafat, Al- Masri suggests the terrorist turned political leader sacrificed former supporters in order to ‘please the rotten Benjamin Netanyahu and the rest of his pig nation’.91 _{At a} demonstration in May 2000 attended by members of the fundamentalist movement, one speaker is reported as having pointed to the Jewish community and said: ‘your state is a blasphemy according to Jewish law so that makes you not only cowards, garbage, scum, thieves’.92 Finding great favour with the audience, he accuses Jews of being ‘.... the most gangrenous part of humanity that has always killed its own prophets, betrayed its own people…that is why in our religion you are described as pigs, swine’s and apes’. 93 _{In the minds of fundamentalists, there can be absolutely no} negotiations or peace treaty with the occupying Israeli state. Al-Masri states clearly in issue three of Al-Jihad that Muslims should never stop opposing the peace treaty because, ‘it allows the dirty Israeli Dogs to plunder and loot Palestinian territory as

89 _{Press Association Reporter, ‘The preaching’s of Abu Hamza’, Guardian Online, 7}th February 2006, http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/feb/07/terrorism.world,

(accessed 28th October 2014) 90_Ibid.

91 _{Al-Masri ‘Issue 10’}

92 _{S. O’Neil, ‘The Joy of Semtex’, Militant Islam Monitor, 1}st _{May 2004,}

http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/66, (accessed 28th October 2014) 93_Ibid.

they choose’. 94 Instead of peace, Al-Masri consistently promotes violence as the only practicable solution. He argues the Palestinians are not in need of politicians like Arafat but of great warriors such as Salah-ud-Deen to regain their honour, dignity and values. 95 According to Al-Masri, ‘all Muslims should begin to have a physical reaction in order to stop the human injustice that is going on in Palestine and God willing (insh’allah) justice will be done to the unbelieving Israeli dogs.’ 96

In October 2000, leader of Al-Muhajiroon, Anjem Choudary, co-signed a warning to all Jews in the UK. It stated unequivocally, ‘If they [Jews] support Israel financially, verbally or physically they will become part of the [Middle East] conflict’.97 Any Jew, who spoke openly in support of Israel, ran the risk of retaliation at the hands of fundamentalists. In a newsletter dated April 2002, Omar Bakri Mohammed claims the state of Israel is worse than Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa in terms of atrocities committed against minorities.98 Clearly aligned with Al-Masri, Hamas, and the global Islamic fundamentalist movement, Bakri argues there can never be peace in Palestine until Muslims have eradicated the state of Israel. Widely cited by fundamentalists is the claim that Prophet Mohammed promised the annihilation of the Jewish state 1300 years ago. In a veiled warning to the British public, Bakri claims that the British and American stance towards Islam and Muslims means they should not be surprised if Muslims target them in retaliation for their acts of aggression.