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Al-Muhajiroun


Al-Muhajiroun (Arabic: المهاجرون‎‎; The Emigrants) is a banned extremist Salafi jihadistterrorist organisation that was based in the United Kingdom and which has been linked to international terrorism, homophobia and antisemitism. The group operated in the United Kingdom from 14 January 1986 until the British Government announced an intended ban in August 2005. The group became notorious for its September 2002 conference, "The Magnificent 19", praising the September 11, 2001 attacks. The group mutates periodically so as to evade the law; it then operates under different aliases. It was proscribed under the UK Terrorism Act 2000 on 14 January 2010 together with four other organisations including Islam4UK, and again in 2014 as "Need4Khilafah".

Al-Muhajiroun has also run a Lahore safe house for visiting British Muslims. Michael Adebolajo, the man convicted of killing Lee Rigby in a terrorist attack in Woolwich, attended Al-Muhajiroun meetings and demonstrations.

Al-Muhajiroun's proclaimed aims are to establish public awareness about Islam, to influence public opinion in favour of the sharia, to convince members of society that Islam is inherently political and a viable ideological alternative, to unite Muslims on a global scale in the threats facing the Ummah and to resume the Islamic way of life by re-establishing the Islamic Caliphate.

In June 2009 the organisation officially re-launched itself in the United Kingdom, under the alias "Islam4UK". However it was banned under the Terrorism Act 2000 in January 2010. In January 2010, the group, operating as one of three aliases, was banned by Labour Home Secretary Alan Johnston in connection with a planned protest march through Wootton Bassett:


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