In June 2002, I traveled with a colleague to interview Shaykh Omar Bakri at his headquarters in north London. During our discussion, he freely confessed to me, "My dream is to see the Islamic flag over the White House, and it will fly very high... You say to me, you dream. OK, let me enjoy my own dream... let me enjoy my dream... let me be a foolish dreamer, as long as I don’t commit terrorist activity. Don’t censor me and don’t ban me. You banned me in 1988 from university campuses, yet I entered all different university campuses under different names and started many different societies. They close one, I open a new one." Smilingly, he warned, "Be careful. If you keep calling somebody a terrorist... After a while, oh my god, I'm a terrorist... so let me practice it."

In response, I asked the Shaykh exactly what point he and his followers would turn to carrying out acts of violence. He explained, "according to Islam, that can be done only when the treaty is breached. The moment they arrest me, the treaty between us is no longer there, after that I can give my all. And my all will be it... Maybe nothing will happen, maybe my own people will bring me down, maybe they will do nothing, maybe I'm just dreaming--but Islamically speaking, after that, there will be no treaties and no sanctity between us."

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