As I posted on another part of the forum....
That group is the UK equivalent of the Westboro Baptist church; newspapers here often like to claim they have 'hundreds' of members or 'hundreds' of people at their protests but the reality is the most that have ever turned up to their protests is maybe 100 people; and that is stretching it, most of their protests its more like 15-30 people and its always the SAME unemployed nutjobs. I live near an area where quite a few members of this cult live, and this is what they are, a cult, just like Westboro, they are not mainstream Muslims in any way even down to their most basic creed they actually have some quite heretical beliefs according to both mainstream sunni and mainstream shia Islam. For example they don't believe in some of the details of what will happen in the afterlife; which all mainstream Muslims hold as sacred. Its complicated but there are many other matters in the basic creed of Muslims that this cult do not believe in.
Also they may dress and look 'Muslim' but from having run ins with these idiots in the past; and living near a lot of their head nutcases; the majority of them don't even pray and some are involved in drug dealing etc; they are basically a political cult as opposed to a religious one. I have known women in this group and they are usually insecure; with personality disorders, or other severe mental disorders, and often have fallen out with all their family and friends because of their behaviour; naturally a cult like this preys on such people.
There is evidence that this group are either on the payroll of the British security services, or at the very least they allow them to operate without arrest because they believe it will lead them to actual terrorists (as opposed to terrorist wannabes as these fools are), if they allow this group to operate with impunity it makes watching certain people within the group a lot easier. Mainstream Muslims including those who dress similarly to in the article but in NO WAY share the beliefs of this cult have kicked people from this group out of mosques and community centres and have often had conferences with the police present, against extremism (including a big one by an organisation called salafi publications in 2005 which only Sky News showed anything about) but this is rarely publicised. As for their leader claiming to be a professor of Shariah or whatever he is these days; that is laughable, he has no such qualifications to make such a claim and aside from the media and his 15-30 mentally disturbed hangers on; no other Muslims believe this lunatic is some type of scholar; oh and his 'school of shariah' is one or two rooms in some warehouse or office complex in a backstreet of East London.
