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Al Ghurabaa


Al Ghurabaa (Arabic: الغرباء‎‎‏; English: The Strangers) is a Muslim organization which, along with The Saviour Sect, Islam4UK and others, is widely believed to be the reformed Al-Muhajiroun after it disbanded in 2004 by order of Omar Bakri Muhammad. Other members include Abu Izzadeen and Abu Uzair.

On 17 July 2006 the group was proscribed under legislation in Britain outlawing organizations that support terrorism. Home Secretary John Reid laid an order in Parliament which makes it a criminal offence for a person to belong to or encourage support for the group, to arrange meetings in its support, or to wear clothes or carry articles in public indicating support or membership.

The name of the group is derived from a hadith (or tradition) ascribed to Muhammad, "Islam began as something strange and will end as something strange...so give glad tidings to the strangers."

Anjem Choudary, previously a leader of Al-Muhajiroun, was a spokesman or prominent figure in al Ghurabaa'. In 2010 he reemerged as the leader of Islam4UK.

However Ghurabaa is widely known to mean stranger in the Arabic language. This term also contains a deeper meaning it's the concept as walking through this world (dunya) as a if your passing by not to have any attachment as your life in this world because it is short( that's why the call to prayer for your death is done at birth to emphasise that life is short). It always gives Muslims the strength to get through bad times. With islamaphobia on the rise muslims are turing to this concept of being a stranger dearly that it doesn't matter if what they do is against the norm because due to the Hadith "glad tidings to the strangers" There lies a reward.

Al Ghurabaa was banned by Waltham Forest Council from holding meetings at premises within walking distance of the homes of several of the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot suspects.


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