Al-Muhajiroun (organization)

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Al-Muhajiroun (Arabic: المهاجرون, "The Emigrants") is a proscribed terrorist network based in the United Kingdom. The group was founded by Omar Bakri Muhammad, a Syrian who previously belonged to Hizb ut-Tahrir; he has been denied permission to enter Britain since 2005. The organisation has been linked to international terrorism, homophobia, and antisemitism. In its September 2002 conference "The Magnificent 19", it praised the September 11, 2001 attacks. The network mutates periodically so as to evade the law; it operates under many different aliases. The group in its original incarnation operated openly in the United Kingdom from 14 January 1986 until the British Government announced an intention ban in August 2005. The group preemptively "disbanded" itself in 2005 to avoid this; two aliases used by the group were proscribed by the British Home Secretary under the Terrorism Act 2006: Al Ghurabaa and The Saviour Sect. Further proscriptions followed with the Terrorism Act 2000 where Islam4UK...

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