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News and Views of Muslims in The United Kingdom


Friday 25th July 1997 - 19 Rabi' Al-Awwal 1418

'Global' march

Al-Muhajiroun announced holding of a global march "against oppressors and oppression" on August 3. The march will "deal with and address the causes and symptoms and the way forward". In England, the march will start from Hyde Park Corner ending at Trafalgar Square with a rally. "We believe all leaders are oppressors but we will campaign against three leaders," Shaykh Omar Bakri Muhammad, Principal Lecturer of London School of Shari'ah, told a press conference, held in central London. The three leaders will be King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel. However, other leaders will also be targeted, leaders of Algeria, Morocco, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, France, UK, Serbia, Greece, USA, and Russian Federation. Sheikh Essa Mansuri, Secretary of the Islamic World League, said the aim of the march is to unite Muslims together and "try and find out who our enemy is and who is responsible for creating conflicts in the Muslim world". Man-made laws cause injustice, argued Dr Muhammad al-Mass'ari, Secretary of CDLR, the Saudi opposition group. Muslims in Palestine are oppressed by the Israelis and are supported by the West as they need to support the Jews inorder to expiate their sins due to their mistreatment of the Jews, said al-Massa'ri. Makbool Javaid, Chairman of the Society of Muslim Lawyers, discussed about the democracy and said "its fruits has been enslavement and exploitation of resources". Muslims run the risk of "demonisation and are targeted because we challenge such attitudes". It is Muslims who can offer a solution to the problems as its system "is divinely inspired". So the march will not just target a few individuals but "the system that they support and are supported by". The march will also take place in Canada, India, Mauritious, Turkey and Pakistan.