Can children be served Halal?

While the title of this post was formulated some time back and for a different reason, I felt that with the events that have unfolded since the tragedy in Beslan it would be more appropriate to use it to expose the fraud that is perpetrated in the name of Islam. It seems that the spiritual leader of the Islamic group Al-Muhajiroun, Omar Bakri Mohammed, decided to weigh in on the tragedy in an interview in The Sunday Telegraph.

His views on taking women and children hostage are rather interesting given that Islam considers this a major sin. For the article are his comments:

Omar Bakri Mohammed, the spiritual leader of the extremist sect al-Muhajiroun, said that holding women and children hostage would be a reasonable course of action for a Muslim who has suffered under British rule.

In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Mr Mohammed said: "If an Iraqi Muslim carried out an attack like that in Britain, it would be justified because Britain has carried out acts of terrorism in Iraq.

"As long as the Iraqi did not deliberately kill women and children, and they were killed in the crossfire, that would be okay."

Now let me get this stright - it is fine to take women and children as hostages as long as you don't kill them. If shooting starts and they die in the process then that is just fine as long as you didn't do it yourself. This ranks right up there with the Catholic Church's buy now and sin later policy of selling indulgences.

I can see these criminals planning it all now. "Let's take over this school, and we'll do something that will look like an accident and it'll get the Russians shooting and all the hostages will die. We'll die too, but we're going to Paradise! It'll be nothing but hapiness and fucking virgins for the rest of eternity!"

Sorry to rain on your happy parade Mohammed, Mahmoud, Habib, et al. The only virgins you'll be fucking are short, have four legs and are wooly. And it wont be all happy, happy where you'll be delighting in the family pastime of animal husbandry. If taking women and children hostage is not allowed in your religion then why not release all of them. But I forgot, if you'd have done that then you wouldn't have had many (or any hostages) and the Russians would have mowed you down. Then again, they might have gassed you and took you alive. I hear that the cells in the basement of the Lubiyanka are better now that when Felix Dzerzhinsky was running things.

In the eyes of the law, it does not matter whether you pulled the trigger or not you are guilty of murder. It seems that God takes a similar tack on things. And I'm sure that Allah does too, when his message is being twisted and perverted by some of His faithful followers.

If Allah is as merciful as the Qu'ran says he is then perchance one day he might take Omar Bakri Mohammed on a trip to show him where the slime from Beslan ended up. I'd love hear his take on what their Paradise is like.