Billions for Britain’s Conversion

Effort Meets with UK’s Approval

By

Paul L. Williams, Ph.D.

thelastcrusade.org

Libyan President Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi has mounted a multi-billion campaign to transform England and Wales into Islamic nations.

Eleven Islamic missionaries will launch the campaign this week in Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham, Birmingham, Leicester, Glasgow, Cardiff and Swansea.

The effort is being sponsored by the World Islamic Call Society (WICS), an organization that was established by the Libyan leader.

The Islamic crusade comes just a month after the release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbasset Ali Al Megrahi caused a storm between Britain and the US when he returned to a hero’s welcome in Tripoli.

In a recent speech, Colonel Gaddafi said that the aim of WICS is to convert the whole of Europe to Islam. “This religion,” the Libyan president said, “shall overcome all other religions before it. Their time has gone. It is his promise, Allah shall prevail this religion over the rest.”

Gaddafi believes that the effort will succeed since WICS has been the recipient of billions in revenue from Libyan oil. “There are tens of millions of Muslims in the European continent and the number is on the increase,” he said. “This is the clear indication that the European continent will be converted to Islam.”

WICS has gained international renown in recent years by organizing meetings between prominent Muslims and religious figures, including the Pope.

But question marks remain over links between the organization and money-laundering, following the international freeze on Libya’s assets after Megrahi’s bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988.

WICS has gained the approval of the British Parliament, with the British ambassador to Libya holding a plush farewell reception for the imams in Tripoli before they flew to the UK last week.

In a speech at the reception the ambassador praised WICS for forging links between Libya and the UK and even apologized for the difficulties the imams had experienced applying for UK visas for the visit.

But Birmingham MP Khalid ­Mahmood last night raised concerns over the WICS visit.

“We’ve got a lot of good work being done by organisations in Birmingham celebrating the diversity of our communities,” he said. “We don’t need imported groups like this, funded by people like Colonel Gaddafi. If he is really interested in doing something positive he should work with the community groups we ­already have, instead of coming over and trying to convert people.”

WICS say their Imams will visit Mosques across Britain with a message of peace and integration, leading Ramadan prayers in Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham, Birmingham, Leicester, Glasgow, Cardiff and Swansea.