Terrorist's Cambridge connection

A friend of Bilal Abdullah, one of the two men accused of planting bombs in London and Glasgow, says that Abdullah "felt pain" over the war in his native Iraq.

Hicham Kwieder, of the Cambridge Muslim Welfare Society, told the New York Times:

It seemed he wasn’t happy about the situation in Iraq, and the killing and disputes between the Iraqi factions.

Behind his smiling, he had some anger.

He told me he felt the Shia domination of Iraq was wrong and was upset that his family had to leave Iraq for Jordan. He was not happy with the policies taken by the British and U.S. governments of giving more to the Shia than the Sunnis.

Hicham Kwieder. That name rings a bell.

Ah yes, he was the Muslim leader who issued that press release demanding an apology from the students who published the Mohammed cartoon at Clare College, accusing them of  "incitement to religious and ethnic hatred" and hinting that their actions could have grave consequences.

Interesting company you keep, Mr Kwieder.

When the students were advised to make themselves scarce after the cartoon sparked an outcry, I wondered if it was an overreaction.  Surely there can't be violent Islamists in a place like Cambridge, I thought. It appears that I was wrong.   

Comments

[G. Tingey]

Ah, and are the appeasers from Clare College going to publish a retraction and an apology?

Do we hold our breath?

[Rastaman]

Only if we want to turn us blue, Twingey. Was that about half-right?

[Jonathan]

I don't see the logic in going to the press to "explain" what your terrorist mate was thinking. I mean, Kwieder is probably an innocent bystander, but saying stuff like this only creates suspicion.