British authorities are looking at charging Muslims clerics with treason, says the Guardian:
The formal process will begin this week of “examining the potential for charging” three prominent Islamic clerics for existing offences including solicitation to murder and incitement to treason, the attorney general’s office confirmed yesterday.
The director of public prosecutions, Ken Macdonald, will meet senior Scotland Yard officers to discuss the cases of Omar Bakri Mohammed, founder of al-Muhajiroun, who has said he would support hostage-taking at British schools if carried out by terrorists with a just cause; Abu Izzadeen, spokesman for al-Ghurabaa – “the Strangers” – who said the suicide bombers in London were “completely praiseworthy”; and Abu Uzair of the Saviour Sect, one of the successor organisations to al-Muhajiroun, who has claimed that the “banner has been risen for jihad inside the UK”.
