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PalTalk Under Pressure to End Omar Bakri Mohammed's WebcastsBy Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
PalTalk is an internet chat-room service with thousands of discussion groups, and its distinctive feature is "the way it merges text, audio, and video into a single integrated environment." PalTalk groups are devoted to wide-ranging issues, including music, religion and social issues. One user of this service is Omar Bakri Mohammed, a radical London-based cleric who delivers nightly talks over PalTalk. Recently, Bakri Mohammed said in a PalTalk webcast, "We have lost the khilafah in 1924 but continue the victorious group into today. We have Sheikh Osama bin Laden, our emir, and he is admired by every single person so that is the victorious group. Al-Qaeda and all its branches and organisations of the world, that is the victorious group and they have the emir and you are obliged to join. It is no need yourself to mess about. I don't want you to join me, I want you to join these people." Bakri Mohammed has an extensive "greatest hits" collection. He hosted a secret conference earlier this month at which British Muslims were urged to join al-Qaeda, and where one speaker said that Western governments would face "a 9/11 day after day after day." He has suggested that an attack on a British school of the kind that occurred in Beslan, Russia would be justified. Bakri Mohammed also headed up the radical group Al-Muhajiroun, which has referred to September 11 as "a towering day in history," and calls the 9/11 hijackers "the magnificent 19." PalTalk, which a spokesman describes as an "open service" that can't monitor all of its channels, is now under pressure to end Bakri Mohammed's webcasts. After London's Evening Standard made PalTalk aware of the webcasts, company executives in New York convened "emergency talks on whether to ban or restrict them." And PalTalk's emergency meeting may prove to be the least of Bakri Mohammed's worries. As of two days ago, police were reportedly examining the webcast in which he urged listeners to join al-Qaeda.
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