Hate books openly sold 2 miles from Westminster killer’s home
12 arrested are freed
ISLAMIC books advocating the killing of gay people and adulterers were on sale near the home of Westminster monster Khalid Masood.
The extremist literature was openly available in the city dubbed Britain’s terror capital.
Copies of Major Sins, which promotes the murder of homosexuals, were on sale in shops in Alum Rock, Birmingham.
Another book, Bringing Up Children In Islam, which urges parents to “keep alive in the children the spirit of jihad”, was also on the shelves.
Masood, 52, who killed four people in the Westminster attack, lived just two miles away in a bedsit.
Yesterday the Madina Book Centre said Bringing Up Children In Islam, which was available two weeks ago for £5, was now out of stock.
A shop worker said: “We had it but I think it has now sold out. You will have to speak to my boss and he is not here.”
No-one from the nearby Madani Gift Shop, which stocked Major Sins as recently as last month, was available to comment.
Both books were bought from the shops by a reporter less than two weeks before the Westminster atrocity.
The predominantly Muslim suburb of Alum Rock is part of a small corner of the city that has produced one in ten of the UK’s convicted Islamist terrorists.
Over the past 20 years, 26 of 269 extremists came from just five council wards in Birmingham: Springfield, Sparkbrook, Hodge Hill, Washwood Heath and Bordesley Green. Both bookshops in Alum Rock are in the Washwood Heath ward. In Major Sins, RICHARD BURNS homosexuality is branded as the “dirtiest act” and banned by Islam.
A passage reads: “The king of the universe said if you find any person engaged in homosexuality, kill both the active and passive partners.”
The book also states children should be beaten if they are not involved in worship.
And, in what is intended to be a thorough guide to creating the perfect Muslim family, Bringing Up Children in Islam says youngsters “may be inspired to strive for the restoration of the glory of Islam and Muslims”.
It adds: “Tyrants must be subdued whether they rule in an Islamic or non-Islamic land, or whether they are on a battlefield.”
The book rails against cinema and theatre, arguing they are the work of “evil-minded” Jews before warning of a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world.
Written by Dr Muhammad Habibullah Mukhtar, the book advocates that adulterers should be stoned to death and Muslim schoolchildren kept separate from others, adding: “Education under unbelieving and atheist teachers results in them going astray.”
Alum Rock has been home to several extremists including al-Qaida fighter Rashid Rauf, killed by a US drone nine years ago.
Parviz Khan, who was jailed for life in 2008 for organising a plot to behead a British soldier, was also from the area.
Birmingham has 39 convicted terrorists, more than West Yorkshire, Lancashire and Greater Manchester combined. ALL 12 people arrested in connection with the Westminster terror attack have been released without charge.
A 30-year-old man detained on March 26 in Birmingham on suspicion of preparation of terrorist attacks was released yesterday, Scotland Yard said. He was held four days after Khalid Masood’s deadly attack which claimed the lives of four victims, including PC Keith Palmer outside the Palace of Westminster. Eleven other people previously arrested in connection with the investigation have been released without further action. Inquests into the deaths of both Masood, 52, who was shot dead by armed police after his knife attack on PC Palmer, and his three other victims, were opened and adjourned at Westminster Coroner’s Court last week.
Pre-inquest reviews for both cases are expected to be heard at the Royal Courts of Justice on May 19.