UK Prisons Minister Rory Stewart has warned that Islamic hate preacher “Anjem Choudary still poses a ‘genuinely dangerous’ threat to public safety” and that his “planned release next month is ‘a danger to us all as he remains a deeply pernicious, destabilising influence.’”
Yet he is being released anyway, affecting public safety and adding to public fears. Choudary’s preaching is said to have inspired many jihadists, including the London Bridge attacker, but he was only given a 5-and-a-half year sentence — a reflection how low a priority the safety of the British public is for British officials. The same low priority was reflected in the cover-ups of the Muslim rape gangs.
No matter what abuses are sanctioned and committed by Islamic supremacists, they are largely tolerated. And aside from the danger Chaudary poses upon his release, he also posed a danger while in jail, as Stewart warned:
The big shift now in our prisons is that increasingly we are finding people who are much less confident, who have picked up on extremism through social media, who come from more troubled backgrounds, have mental health issues, are much less likely to be theologically informed.
The establishment already has a proclivity to blame jihad attacks on “mental illness” and other influences such as poverty, integration problems, “racism,” etc. Anything to avoid facing up to the anti-West, anti-human rights ideology that is ingrained in Islamic theology, and that many Muslims choose to follow. There is rampant jihad recruitment in prisons, because rather than isolate jihad recruiters, prison officials give them free reign to operate.
Here are some of Choudary’s quotes, from the Telegraph:
- “When Sharia law is implemented, maybe in 10 or 15 years’ time, she [the Queen] would be expected like all women in Britain to be covered from head to toe, only revealing her face and hands.”
- “Thieves would have various warnings first, and only in cases where he has stolen more than £20 of non-perishable goods from a private house would his hand be chopped off.”
- “Under Sharia and under the Koran the sale of alcohol is prohibited and if one were to also drink alcohol, that would be 40 lashes.”
- “There will be no more pubs, no more gambling houses, no more national lottery.”
- “All women would have to be covered up appropriately and wear the niqab or veil and so there will be no prostitution.”
- “By 2050, Britain will be a majority Muslim country. It will be the end of freedom of democracy and submission to God.”
- “We don’t believe in democracy, as soon as they have authority, Muslims should implement Sharia. This is what we’re trying to teach people.”
- “Next time when your child is at school and the teacher says, ‘What do you want when you grow up? What is your ambition?’ they should say, ‘To dominate the whole world by Islam, including Britain – that is my ambition’.”
“Choudary ‘a danger’ says minister,” by Hanna Geissler, Express, September 11, 2018:
Choudary, 51, was convicted in September 2016 of urging Muslims to support Islamic State.
His preaching is believed to have inspired London Bridge attacker Khuram Butt as well as the killers of soldier Lee Rigby, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale.
Other supporters include the suspected IS executioner Siddhartha Dhar, failed suicide bomber Omar Sharif, who was involved in an attack on Tel Aviv in Israel in 2003, and Brusthom Ziamani, who was jailed for 22 years for plotting to kill on London’s streets.
The cleric was handed a five-and-a-half year jail sentence but is due to be freed from HMP Belmarsh next month after serving only three.
Mr Stewart said Choudary was part of a group of “highly dangerous fanatical extremists” who will be put under strict “multi-agency protection arrangements”.
He explained: “That’s GPS trackers, that’s police, that’s intelligence, watching every movement of their lives and restricting it incredibly closely because I’m in no doubt that these people are highly dangerous. “Even if they are not themselves making bombs, they are a completely pernicious influence on the people they come into contact with and they Hate preacher Anjem Choudary need to be kept away from them.”
He also outlined plans to train an “elite corps” of about 25 Muslim chaplains to deradicalise prisoners.
They will learn how to combat flawed interpretations of Islam and counter “crazy ideas” put forward by extremists…..