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Anjem Choudary convicted of supporting Islamic State
About bloody time.
Anjem Choudary, one of the most notorious hate preachers living in Britain, is facing jail after being found guilty of supporting Islamic State.
Having avoided arrest for years despite his apparent sympathy for extremism and links to some of Britain’s most notorious terrorists, Choudary was convicted at the Old Bailey after jurors heard he had sworn an oath of allegiance to Isis.
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Choudary and his co-defendant, Mohammed Rahman, 33, told their supporters to obey Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Isis leader, who is also known as a caliph, and travel to Syria to support Isis or “the caliphate”, the court heard.
They were convicted in July but details of the trial, including the verdict, could not be reported until now.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/aug/16/anjem-choudary-convicted-of-supporting-islamic-state
Having avoided arrest for years despite his apparent sympathy for extremism and links to some of Britain’s most notorious terrorists, Choudary was convicted at the Old Bailey after jurors heard he had sworn an oath of allegiance to Isis.
...
Choudary and his co-defendant, Mohammed Rahman, 33, told their supporters to obey Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Isis leader, who is also known as a caliph, and travel to Syria to support Isis or “the caliphate”, the court heard.
They were convicted in July but details of the trial, including the verdict, could not be reported until now.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/aug/16/anjem-choudary-convicted-of-supporting-islamic-state
Anjem Choudary: a hate preacher who spread terror in UK and Europe
British Muslims were among those baffled at how a man who openly supported jihad avoided jail for so many years
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But the fact is that again and again, people connected to him and his extremist Islamist groups became involved in terrorism. The sheer weight of that pattern, involving some 100 people in Britain alone, points to this being not a coincidence but a deliberate aim.
The lifting of legal restrictions means the public can be told of his conviction for encouraging support for Isis. It comes after years of widespread bafflement as to how he escaped going to jail for terrorism offences.
The view that Choudary played a pernicious role in funnelling people towards terrorism has remarkable levels of agreement across the political and religious spectrum.
It is shared by intelligence agencies across Europe, with one saying his groups had a sometimes “explicitly violent ideology”. But also it is shared by groups on the political left and right, as well as moderate Muslims. Even some alleged extremist Muslim figures in Britain privately say they suspected all along that Choudary was pushing young Muslims towards terrorism, and were suspicious when he was not stopped.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/aug/16/anjem-choudary-hate-preacher-spread-terror-uk-europe
British Muslims were among those baffled at how a man who openly supported jihad avoided jail for so many years
...
But the fact is that again and again, people connected to him and his extremist Islamist groups became involved in terrorism. The sheer weight of that pattern, involving some 100 people in Britain alone, points to this being not a coincidence but a deliberate aim.
The lifting of legal restrictions means the public can be told of his conviction for encouraging support for Isis. It comes after years of widespread bafflement as to how he escaped going to jail for terrorism offences.
The view that Choudary played a pernicious role in funnelling people towards terrorism has remarkable levels of agreement across the political and religious spectrum.
It is shared by intelligence agencies across Europe, with one saying his groups had a sometimes “explicitly violent ideology”. But also it is shared by groups on the political left and right, as well as moderate Muslims. Even some alleged extremist Muslim figures in Britain privately say they suspected all along that Choudary was pushing young Muslims towards terrorism, and were suspicious when he was not stopped.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/aug/16/anjem-choudary-hate-preacher-spread-terror-uk-europe
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