'Red' Ken Livingstone Gets Backing of Islamist Suicide Bomb Advocates

Talk about your Leftist-Islamist convergence. Here we've got the Communist Mayor of London proudly posing with a psychotic Islamist who promotes mass murder by suicide bombing.

If this doesn't roust the Brits from their slumber, then they're beyond hope.

An advocate of suicide bombing is among leaders of a group trying to mobilise Muslim voters to back Ken Livingstone, it was reported today.

For the past year, the group has been working on a strategy to win an estimated 200,000 Muslim votes in an effort to re-elect the Mayor, the Evening Standard claims.

It includes a campaign of vilification aimed at his Conservative rival, Boris Johnson. It is being waged by Muslims 4 Ken, led by 39-year-old lecturer Anas Altikriti and Palestinian-born Azzam Tamimi, a supporter of Hamas, the militant group dedicated to the creation of an Islamic state of Palestine.

While Mr Altikriti says he abhors violence and favours dialogue to further the Muslim cause, Mr Tamimi has praised suicide bombers and said he would volunteer for a suicide mission in Palestine.

"For us Muslims martyrdom is not the end of things, but the beginning of the most wonderful of things," he has said. "If I can go to Palestine and sacrifice myself I would do it. Why not?"

Muslims 4 Ken moves into overdrive this week after months of lobbying for Mr Livingstone among Muslim community leaders, in mosques and among political organisations.

Somehow I doubt Rudy Giuliani would have accepted endorsements from Islamists had he been running again for Mayor of New York City. The notion of Livingstone posing with Islamists and accepting endorsements from the type of people who murdered the people of his own city just a couple of years ago is sickening.