Islamism in Jamaica - Jamaican Islamists, Abdullah El-Faisal, Germaine Lindsay (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Abdullah el-Faisal (born Trevor William Forest, also known as Abdullah al-Faisal, Sheikh Faisal, and Sheik Faisal, born 10 September 1963 ), in Saint James Parish, Jamaica) is a radical Muslim cleric who preached in the United Kingdom until he was convicted of stirring up racial hatred and urging his followers to murder Jews, Hindus, Christians, and Americans. El-Faisal was sentenced to nine years in prison, of which he served four years before being deported to Jamaica in 2007. He subsequently traveled to Africa, but was deported from Botswana in 2009 and from Kenya back to Jamaica in January 2010. El-Faisal was born to an evangelical Christian family which belonged to the Salvation Army church, a denomination of the universal Christian Church. He grew up in the small farming village of Point, about 14 miles from the city of Montego Bay, in upper St. James, Jamaica. He attended Springfield All-Age, then Maldon Primary and Junior High. At age 16, he converted to Islam, after being introduced to the religion by a teacher at Maldon High School. Shortly after graduating Maldon in 1980 he assumed the name Abdullah el-Faisal, and he changed his name legally in 1983. In 1981 he went to Trinidad on a Saudi Arabian government-sponsored six-week crash course in Islamic and Arabic studies, where he was taught the skills of being an imam. He left Jamaica in 1983 for Guyana where he studied Arabic and Islam for a year, and then moved to the UK later in the 1980s. He went to Saudi Arabia on a Saudi government scholarship in November 1984. El-Faisal studied Islam for seven years at the Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. El-Faisal was sent to the United Kingdom to preach by Sheikh Raji. He returned to the UK in 1991, beca... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=193000