Hassan Butt

Hassan Butt (born 1980) is the British Pakistani former spokesman of the radical Islamic group al-Muhajiroun who now calls on Muslims to "renounce terror".

Quotes

• When I was still a member of what is probably best termed the British Jihadi Network, a series of semi-autonomous British Muslim terrorist groups linked by a single ideology, I remember how we used to laugh in celebration whenever people on TV proclaimed that the sole cause for Islamic acts of terror like 9/11, the Madrid bombings and 7/7 was Western foreign policy.

  By blaming the government for our actions, those who pushed the 'Blair's bombs' line did our propaganda work for us. More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology.

  • Butt, Hassan (2007-07-01). "My plea to fellow Muslims: you must renounce terror". The Observer. Retrieved on 2007-07-07. 

• I've never met anyone from al-Qaida or anyone who claimed to be from al-Qaida in my entire life ... I actually arranged for myself to be stabbed in the shoulder, sorry, in my arm and in my back because I knew if I said I had been attacked Shiv was going to ask for some proof so basically I stabbed myself ... you know, it was just part of the whole scam.
  • As quoted in "Taken in by al-Qaida". The Guardian. 27 June 2008.

Quotes about Hassan Butt

• Hassan Butt, the self-confessed al-Qaida insider, was only so well promoted by the Islam-bashers because he told them exactly what they wanted to hear.
  • Inayat Bunglawala, "Taken in by al-Qaida". The Guardian. 27 June 2008.