Stickers "promoting terrorism" by praising Osama bin Laden and the September 11 hijackers have been put up in Birmingham streets. The stickers, which show bin Laden and US President George Bush and the doomed twin towers of the World Trade Centre, have left a church group outraged and embarrassed the leader of the city's Central Mosque. They exhort people to: "Remember, remember 11 September." They have been put up in Alum Rock Road, apparently by the extremist Al-Muhajiroun organisation. The inter-faith Saltley Gate Peace Group called on the city council to remove the stickers immediately and urged the police to investigate. The group, which is based at Saltley Methodist Church, said it feared that as the September 11 anniversary approached the stickers were "vandalising the image of communities and promoting terrorism amongst a very young and vulnerable population of Muslim youth". The group also claimed that Al-Muhajiroun members had distributed leaflets praising bin Laden outside Birmingham Central Mosque, despite being banned from the premises. It condemned Al-Muhajiroun as a "terror-supporting organisation" and criticised the city council for failing to remove similar stickers which first appeared 12 months ago. Dr Mohammed Naseem, chairman of Birmingham Central Mosque, was quick in his condemnation of the stickers and leaflets. He said: "When you have friends like this who needs enemies? Whatever they recommend is not permitted in Islam. "They boast that they can never be touched and the Government is protecting them. "I would ask people to ignore these posters and stickers and what they are saying, which is un-Islamic. "They have a small following of misguided young people who have little knowledge of Islam." Dr Naseem added: "This kind of polarisation between Muslims and non-Muslims is un-Islamic and is not how the Prophet behaved." A spokesman for the council said: "The ones we didn't remove from last year were those left on private property, but we removed all the others. We will also take these new ones down." | 
