Azzam Tamimi will be addressing the Loughborough Student Union Islamic Society tomorrow – the title of his talk is ‘The Holy Land: Palestine Past, Present and Future.’ Tamimi is a supporter of Hamas and of suicide bombings.
TIM SEBASTIAN: So this is the reason – the only thing that is holding you back from strapping on a suicide belt is the fact that you can’t get back to the Palestinian territories?
DR AZZAM AL-TAMIMI: You see sacrificing myself for Palestine is a noble cause. It is the straight way to pleasing my God and I would do it if I had the opportunity….
Recently he laughed and joked with Raed Salah as the latter recalled taunting a Jewish teacher with a swastika. The Student Rights blog warns of the dangers of allowing extremists such as Tamimi to speak unchallenged:
Despite Dr Tamimi’s extreme opinions there will be no other speaker present at the event to provide some form of balance. As such, it seems likely that these extreme views will go unchallenged which creates a dangerous precedent.
