Their message was as disturbing as ever - and the date, September 11, was particularly symbolic.On Thursday evening this week, at a packed meeting in London's East End, two profoundly dangerous men urged the destruction of the British way of life.
I was there as the radical cleric and self-styled sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed proclaimed that this country - where he received state benefits for two decades - will soon be transformed into an Islamic state, or Khilafah, run according to the rules of the Muslim holy book, the Koran.
Bakri's black-robed right-hand man went one step further. Anjem Choudary, a 41-year-old militant and the leading light of a thriving new organisation called islam4UK declared: 'There are already six or seven million Muslims here in Britain.
'By the year 2020, we will be the majority.
'In the streets of London - Whitechapel, Bethnal Green, Stratford - people are becoming Muslim in their droves. By sheer numbers, Britain will become an Islamic state.
'We will never need to conquer this country. Our eyes are now on Downing Street,' he added, with an excited laugh.
Alarmingly, at the three-hour conference called to mark the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 atrocities, there were shouts of support from the 100-strong audience of men (some only boys in their teens) and women.
At first sight, the meeting in an upstairs room next to the Walthamstow Mosque on Northumberland Street, Leyton, seemed harmless.
Between speeches from the robed clerics at the front, there were breaks for prayers and a meal of chicken curry and dates.
Children played on the floor and veiled mothers held babies.
But what was being said has deep implications for the future of this country.
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