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Britain jails radical cleric for supporting jihadists
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RADICAL cleric Anjem Choudary, long a thorn in the side of British authorities, was jailed yesterday for five-and-a-half years after being convicted of encouraging support for Islamic State jihadists.
Supporters of the 49-year-old and his co-defendant Mohammed Mizanur Rahman, who received the same sentence, shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest) from the public gallery as the judge announced his decision.
Judge Timothy Holroyde said Choudary was “calculating and dangerous” and had shown no remorse in a ruling handed down at London’s Old Bailey court.
Choudary showed no emotion as the sentence was passed.
“A significant proportion of those listening to your words would be impressionable persons looking to you for guidance on how to act,” said the judge.
Sue Hemming from the Crown Prosecution Service said both men were “fully aware that Daesh (IS) is a proscribed terrorist group responsible for brutal activities and that what they themselves were doing was illegal.”
A jury convicted both men in July.
Choudary is the former head in Britain of Islam4UK or al-Muhajiroun, a now banned group co-founded by Omar Bakri Muhammad that called for Islamic law in Britain. For two decades, the former lawyer of Pakistani descent managed to stay on the right side of the law, becoming UK’s most prominent radical preacher.
Among those radicalized by Muhajiroun were the suicide bombers who killed 52 people on London’s public transport system in July 2005, and the men who murdered soldier Lee Rigby in 2013.
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