The terrorist you didn't hear about

[Alterego]

One story you probably won’t have heard recently is the attempted terrorist attack on Glasgow Central Mosque. Neil MacGregor has pleaded guilty to not only trying to blow up Scotland’s biggest Mosque but also to threatening to behead one Muslim a week until there are no more Mosques in Scotland.

It’s a shocking attack with extremely sinister objectives. Surely if anything is newsworthy then this is it? Yet there’s been barely a peep from any media outlets. I wonder why there has been no press coverage on this at all. Would it be different if it was a Muslim extremist trying to blow up a church or synagogue? The sentencing will be tomorrow morning.

Pickled Politics The Muslim terrorist story media ignored

[mothball]

He sounds like a lone nut. A bit like that weirdo some years back who targetted the gay bars.

[garlandgreen]

One story you probably won’t have heard recently is the attempted terrorist attack on Glasgow Central Mosque. Neil MacGregor has pleaded guilty to not only trying to blow up Scotland’s biggest Mosque but also to threatening to behead one Muslim a week until there are no more Mosques in Scotland.

It’s a shocking attack with extremely sinister objectives. Surely if anything is newsworthy then this is it? Yet there’s been barely a peep from any media outlets. I wonder why there has been no press coverage on this at all. Would it be different if it was a Muslim extremist trying to blow up a church or synagogue? The sentencing will be tomorrow morning.

Pickled Politics The Muslim terrorist story media ignored

The failed exploits of lone nuts rarely get's further then the funny pages.

[draiocht23]

Valid point - if he had threatened to blow up a church or execute Christians, it would have been, at least, mentioned in national newspaper.

It was covered by the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations.

MUSLIM and anti-racist organisations are demanding answers as to why a man who threatened to behead Muslims and blow-up a landmark Mosque was not charged under anti-terrorism legislation.

The Scottish Islamic Foundation and Glasgow Anti Racist Alliance (GARA) have also expressed alarm at the lack of coverage of the case and called for Scotland to face up to a climate of increasing hatred and fear against Muslims.

Glasgow Sheriff Court heard how Neil MacGregor threatened to behead one Muslim a week until all the country’s mosques were shut down.

The comments by MacGregor, due to be sentenced next week, are said to have caused extreme alarm within Scotland’s Muslim community.

The Scottish Islamic Foundation believes the case should have been pursued under terrorism legislation rather than a breach of the peace charge.

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[Alterego]

The failed exploits of lone nuts rarely get's further then the funny pages.

That most likely accounts for your relative obscurity, eh?

[Mr Crowley]

He sounds like a lone nut. A bit like that weirdo some years back who targetted the gay bars.

Sounds more like a Fascist/BNP/Orangeman type; loads of them in Glasgow.

[garlandgreen]

That most likely accounts for your relative obscurity, eh?

Relative to what?

[pete2]

The Digger, the weekly Glasgow publication reported:

The court heard how 35-year-old MacGregor admitted sending a race hate email to Strathclyde Police threatening to blow up [Glasgow Central] Mosque if certain demands weren’t met.

Included in the chilling message was a threat to behead one Muslim a week in the same manner construction worker Ken Bigley was killed after he was kidnapped in Iraq in 2004.

MacGregor followed the email up with a 999 call to cops on February 5, 2007.

The court was told that during the brief call MacGregor claimed he was from the National Front and that a bomb was going to go off.
He said: “A bomb will go off in the Central Mosque later this week. Now f*** off.”

Cops raced to the Mosque to search it for explosive devices, but failed to locate anything suspicious.
...
In his vile email the Derbyshire man who’s staying at his mother’s home in Crieff, ordered that the cops close down every mosque in Scotland.
He wrote: “I’m Frank McAlpine and I’m a proud racist and National Front member. We as an organisation have decided to deal with the current threat from Muslims in our own British way like our proud ancestors.
“Our demands are very small. Close all the Mosques in Scotland, we see this is very easy – even you guys can handle that.”

He then issued a barrage of sickening threats, centering on the internet killing of Ken Bigley.
He wrote: “If our demands aren’t met by next Friday we’ll kidnap one Muslim and execute him or her on the internet, just like they did to our Ken Bigley.
“Those monster evil Muslims cut off his head with a kitchen knife, so we would like to repay the compliment. Every week we’ll kidnap and behead a Muslim if our demands aren’t met.”
... “We will also detonate a box of nails in the Central Mosque on Friday night.”
MacGregor will have to wait four weeks until he’s sentenced on Friday March 6.

Does the context of him being a shut in nutter living with his mum mean anything here? Cited @ Scottish-Islamic Foundation

[Mr Crowley]

Does the context of him being a shut in nutter living with his mum mean anything here? Cited @ Scottish-Islamic Foundation

Yeah, he's even more likely to be a Fascist/BNP/Orangeman type.

[pete2]

Yeah, he's even more likely to be a Fascist/BNP/Orangeman type.

and look what hes gone and done now aww bless

MacGregor sentencing deferred
March 9, 2009 by scottishislamic

The sentencing of Neil MacGregor, who threatened to behead a Muslim a week and blow up Glasgow Central Mosque, has been deferred till March 27th for review of a report which was not available.

UPDATE 27/03/09: Sentencing has been deferred again till Friday 17th April

Posted in Public Affairs | Tagged far right extremism, Neil MacGregor | 1 Comment

One Response
on March 16, 2009 at 3:26 pm neilmacgregor
Dear Osama Saeed

I visited your website today Monday 9th March 2009 & read the article about my threats towards the Glasgow Central Mosque.
I understand your anger & understand that you wish to make an example of me, really I do, but please understand & allow me to make a few points:

a) There is no record of me anywhere of any interest from me towards membership of the National Front or any non- legal or racist group.
b) I have never shown any anger previous my threats towards any Muslim or the religion of Islam & of course non since.
c) There was no explosives or any equipment capable of making explosives in my property during the dawn raids made on my home by the CID.
d) All my threats though not acceptable were verbal & no one was harmed.
e) [COLOR=Red]I have apologized both verbally & written to the Glasgow Central Mosque since[/COLOR].

I have since become a regular Church attendee & follow GODS will that we should all love & respect each other. I have no ill feelings towards Muslims & understand that there are far more attacks Christian on Christian than Muslim on Christian & again apologize unreservedly to you & everyone connected with both Glasgow Central Mosque & the Scottish Islamic Foundation.

I am not a far right extremist

Yours

Neil MacGregor
Peace be with you

MacGregor sentencing deferred The Scottish-Islamic Foundation Blog