{"id":16071,"date":"2009-11-12T18:31:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T18:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/preacher_linked_to_fort_hood_killer_has_support_in_britain\/"},"modified":"2009-11-12T18:31:17","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T18:31:17","slug":"preacher_linked_to_fort_hood_killer_has_support_in_britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16071","title":{"rendered":"Preacher linked to Fort Hood killer has support in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A radical preacher who allegedly inspired the Fort Hood gunman has a large following in Britain and counts prominent mainstream Muslims among his supporters.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI is investigating communications between Major Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people at the Texas army base last week, and Imam Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born Muslim cleric now based in Yemen. Mr al-Awlaki, 38, who described Major Hasan on his blog as \u201ca hero\u201d\u009d, has been a regular visitor to Britain and delivers frequent lectures to British audiences by video or via the internet.<\/p>\n<p>Counter-terrorism sources said yesterday that Mr al-Awlaki was barred from entering Britain on security grounds while the anti-extremist Quilliam Foundation said he was \u201cperhaps the most influential pro-jihadist ideologue preaching in English today\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/article6913317.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A radical preacher who allegedly inspired the Fort Hood gunman has a large following in Britain and counts prominent mainstream Muslims among his supporters. The FBI is investigating communications between Major Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people at the Texas<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16071\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,199,426,155,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}