Posted on 08/02/2024 12:54:23 AM PDT by Jyotishi
London (PTI) -- Anjem Choudary, a radical Islamist preacher with dual British and Pakistani nationality, was on Tuesday jailed for life with a minimum term of 28 years behind bars by a UK court for directing a terrorist organisation.Choudary, 57, had been found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court of directing Al-Muhajiroun (ALM) and encouraging support for the proscribed organisation through online meetings.
Sentencing him at the same court to a prison term means he would be in his 80s by the time he can seek parole.
Justice Mark Wall told Choudary his behaviour was of the “highest culpability”.
“Organisations such as yours normalise violence in pursuit of an ideological cause. They drive wedges between people who would otherwise live together in peaceful co-existence,” said Judge Wall.
During a six-week trial which concluded last week, the jury heard how Choudary helped found ALM in 1996 and spent nearly 30 years running its operations under dozens of different names.
ALM was first proscribed, or banned, by the UK in 2006 under the name Al Ghurabaa. In 2010, ALM was included in the ban as an alternate name.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Choudary was still acting as its leader as late as July 2023, when he was arrested, making online speeches to a US-based offshoot called Islamic Thinkers Society (ITS). That group was infiltrated by undercover law enforcement officers in the US, who were present at online lectures in 2022 and 2023. The court heard that Choudary said he viewed being called an extremist as a “medallion” during lectures.
Choudary was released early from a five-year sentence for inviting support for the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group in October 2018 under licence conditions that prevented him from using the internet until July 2021. But within days of the conditions expiring, he began issuing press releases on WhatsApp and Telegram from his home in Ilford, his trial heard. Following a joint investigation by the Metropolitan Police, the New York Police Department, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, he was arrested and charged with terrorism offences.
It coincided with the arrest of Khaleed Hussein, 29, of Edmonton, Canada, who was detained while arriving at London’s Heathrow Airport in July last year. He was also found guilty of membership of a proscribed organisation and jailed on Tuesday for five years, with an additional year on a “supervision licence” after his release.
“It is clear that both men were members of Al-Muhajiroun and both men had a radical mindset. Anjem Choudary was responsible for directing an international terrorist organisation and Hussain provided him support,” said Bethan David, Head of the CPS Counter Terrorism Division.
“This organisation has been banned in the UK since 2010 because of the danger it poses. Such extremist views are a threat to our society, and I am pleased the jury found him guilty of his crimes,” she said.
Police in Britain, the US and Canada ran the investigations as they became concerned that Choudary was seeking to recruit a new generation of younger followers.
“For over 30 years Anjem Choudary has been a pretty constant presence in counter-terrorism. His influence as a radicaliser is well known but the reality of that impact around the world is that there are individuals who have conducted terrorist attacks or travelled for terrorist purposes as a result of Anjem Choudary’s radicalising effect on them,” said Commander Dominic Murphy, head of the Met Police’s Counter-Terrorism Command.
Chowderhead has been doing his terrorist shtick for many years. About time...or better, why not hang the rotten Mohammedan.
The Brits are doing better than we are.
“Khaleed Hussein, 29, of Edmonton, Canada, who was detained while arriving at London’s Heathrow Airport in July last year...”
Ah, Edmonton, where the police were occupied full time with harassing a pastor for holding church services during Covid, and also going Gestapo over a convoy of truckers.
‘...On one occasion, ‘Andy’ (Choudary) and a friend took LSD together. The friend said: “We took far too much and were hallucinating for 20 hours.”
The only sign of religious fervour came in flashes of anger over Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses. A friend from that time said: “You didn’t want to get him started on that. He would go on and on about the fatwa and he supported calls for the book to be banned. But he would have a glass of cider in his hand when he was carrying on about it.”...’
—— source: thisislondon.com.uk
‘...Choudary is a well-known figure on the forum called Followers of Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jama’aah Muntada (Followers of the Prophet and His Companions). The site, which has about 700 members, is visited by some of Britain’s most notorious Muslim extremists, members of groups such as Al-Ghurabaa and the Saved Sect, offshoots of Al-Muhajiroun and banned after the London bombings on July 7, 2005. Applicants have to be recommended by a member....’
UK preacher in secret web call for jihad
The Times Online ^ | January 14 2007 | Abul Taher
Posted on 1/16/2007, 6:40:47 AM by knighthawk
ONE of Britain’s most vocal, extremist preachers has been using a false name on a secret website to incite Muslim followers to go on jihad, or holy war, in Somalia.
Anjem Choudary, former spokesman of the banned group Al-Muhajiroun, has posted a statement on a jihadist internet forum telling followers they must join the “divine call of jihad” in the African state....
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They’re Baaaack: British Terror Supporters Re-launch al-Muhajiroun...
THE JAWA REPORT ^ | June 11, 2009 11:55 AM | by Rusty
Posted on 6/14/2009, 12:38:22 AM by Cindy
“They’re Baaaack: British Terror Supporters Re-launch al-Muhajiroun, Dedicated to “Raising Flag of Islam over Downing Street””
SNIPPET: “A group of terror supporters in the UK have relaunched an organization dedicated banning criticism of Islam, beheading “blasphemers”, and killing adulterers.
The new and improved al-Muhajiroun will once again be led by Anjem Choudary, chairman of the Society of Muslim Lawyers. The organization was originally founded by Omar Bakri Muhammad who was recently convicted in absentia by a Lebanese court of helping train al Qaeda’s local affiliate. He has also been banned from reentering the UK.
The group disbanded after a conference at Finsbury Park Mosque sponsored by al-Muhajiroun in which indicted terrorist Abu Hamza al-Masri praised the 9/11 hijackers and Bakri Muhammad refused to condemn them. Later, Choudary and other followers of Bakri Mohammad founded two successor organizations — al Ghurabaa and The Savior Sect — both of which were banned by the UK government....
(The only people who complain about too many key words are trolls who don’t want people to know the history of these terrorists and their enablers.)
Choudary is a lawyer and he and his associated fellow Muslim lawyers have been conducting lawfare in the UK for years.
From another thread:
“....TWO Muslim extremist groups banned after last year’s (2005’s) July 7 bombings have re-formed under a new name, writes Abul Taher.
Al Ghurabaa and the Saved Sect, splinter groups of the disbanded Al-Muhajiroun, now operate as Followers of Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah.
The group runs most of its activities through an internet forum, where one of the main contributors is Anjem Choudhury, the former British head of Al-Muhajiroun, who uses the pseudonym Abou Luqman. He often gives his mobile phone numbers to other members.
New users are allowed onto the website only if they are introduced by a member. A reporter who infiltrated the site found calls for violent holy war, declarations that the Queen is an enemy and recordings from Osama Bin Laden; Ayman al-Zawahiri, his deputy; and terrorists from Iraq.
It also contains dozens of voice recordings by Omar Bakri Mohammed, founder of Al-Muhajiroun, who was barred from returning to Britain after going to Lebanon on holiday last year. Bakri’s teachings are widely discussed in the forum....”
Revealed: How YOU gave £1million to Sweet Shop jihadist gang while they held ‘sharia surgeries’
Daily Mail ^ | Aug. 27, 2016 | Omar Wahid, Martin Beckford And Simon Murphy
Posted on 8/28/2016, 8:26:27 PM by Mr. Mojo
Britain’s most notorious Islamist extremists were bankrolled by more than £1 million of taxpayers’ money while waging their campaign of hate, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
A dozen supporters of Islamic State recruiter Anjem Choudary – many of them now convicted terrorists or jihadis who are fighting in Syria or have died there – were paid wages by a businessman who was handed huge sums of public money to run computer training courses in libraries and job centers....
Muslim Cleric Plans White House Protest in Attempt to Spread Sharia Law in America
Fox News ^ | 2/20/11
Posted on 2/20/2011, 11:29:42 AM by Libloather
Muslim Cleric Plans White House Protest in Attempt to Spread Sharia Law in America
Published February 20, 2011 | FoxNews.com
**SNIP**
Anjem Choudary, who once said “the flag of Islam will fly over the White House,” says he will lead a demonstration rallying Muslims to establish Sharia law across the United States.
Choudary, 43, called Americans “the biggest criminals in the world today” during an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity this month.
Choudary, who is the former leader of the outlawed British-based group Islam4UK, says the March rally at the White House is being organized by the extremist group Islamic Thinkers Society, which is based in New York....
Her Majesty The Eurosceptic Queen: EU Courts ‘Denigrate’ Britain By Protecting Terrorists
Breitbart ^ | 22 Jun 2016 | LIAM DEACON
Posted on 6/23/2016, 9:43:26 AM by Mr. Mojo
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II thinks European courts that protect Islamist hate preachers “denigrate” Britain and has demanded her dinner guests “Give me THREE good reasons” to remain inside the European Union (EU). The loaded challenge has been widely interpreted as an expression of Euroscepticism since the Royal biographer Robert Lacey made the revelation in a blog post in the Daily Beast.
The EU and the European Court of Human Rights are known for their history of protecting the “rights” of extremists and blocking deportations.
Last night Breitbart London revealed that Islamist hate preacher, terrorist apologist and Caliphate agitator Anjem Choudary supports Remain because “there are certain principles and caveats” in EU law that offer “recourse” to Islamist radicals.
According to Mr. Lacy: “We know from another leaked royal conversation that the European Court of Human Rights has annoyed the Queen as much as many Britons.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
About damn time.
Dual citizenship. Pick one or the other. That’s why they can’t fit into society.
Yes, far better.
Don’t worry, he’ll be out of the game for a very long time.
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