Thursday, July 6. 2006
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By Ali Hussain (Sunday Times-UK)
Reporter Ali Hussain spent six weeks in Beeston, the suburb of Leeds where two of the 7/7 bombers came from.
Imran Bham, who runs a computer equipment shop, asked me if I would ever blow myself up for Islam. I replied that the Koran says you should not harm innocent people.
"What Koran was that?" he countered. "Don't fool yourself by saying jihad is a struggle within, to get on with life, to motivate myself to get up for prayers and that sort of thing," he said. "That's not jihad. Who told you that?"
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