A former Muslim Uber driver who plotted to drive into an “evil” Gay Pride parade and go on a “gun and knife rampage at busy London tourist sites has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years.”
The Qur’an condemns homosexuality, and many Islamic countries still uphold the death penalty for gays.
“And [We had sent] Lot when he said to his people, ‘Do you commit such immorality as no one has preceded you with from among the worlds? Indeed, you approach men with desire, instead of women. Rather, you are a transgressing people.’…And We rained upon them a rain [of stones]. Then see how was the end of the criminals.” (Qur’an 7:80-84)
“The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, ‘Whoever you find doing the action of the people of Loot, execute the one who does it and the one to whom it is done.’” (Sunan Abu Dawud 4462)
As usual, gay rights activists have been silent.
Chowdhury’s trial revealed that he “had been consuming jihadist sources and propaganda since his release from prison in late 2018, including speeches by ideologues Anwar al-Awlaki and Sheikh Abdallah al-Faisal; manuals for jihad; and ISIS videos, publications and social media posts.” He “bragged” about “deceiving a jury which cleared him of a sword attack on police outside Buckingham Palace at a previous trial at the Old Bailey in December 2018.”
Nonetheless, the UK’s Independent tried to blame Robert Spencer and David Wood for this man’s decision to engage in violent jihad.
In reality, Chowdhury had “dreams of martyrdom.”
“Uber driver who plotted attacks at Pride and Madame Tussauds jailed for life,” by Jen Mills, Metro News, July 9, 2020:
A former Uber driver who plotted a gun and knife rampage at busy London tourist sites has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years.
Mohiussunnath Chowdhury, 29, planned to target Madame Tussauds, the gay Pride parade and an open-top sightseeing bus, using a gun, knife and van, last year.
He was said to be driven by ‘dreams of martyrdom’, and was arrested three days before the Pride parade in summer 2019 after he unknowingly revealed his plans to undercover police officers.
Chowdhury, from Luton, bragged to them about deceiving a jury which cleared him of a sword attack on police outside Buckingham Palace at a previous trial at the Old Bailey in December 2018.
But the jury at a separate subsequent trial found him guilty of terror offences in February, little more than a year later. Chowdhury was handed the life sentence at Woolwich Crown Court on Thursday.
Appearing in court wearing a grey tracksuit and face mask, he was sentenced for convictions of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts, collecting information likely to be useful to someone preparing an act of terrorism and disseminating terrorist publications.
Sentencing, Judge Andrew Lees said he was satisfied that Chowdhury was ‘dangerous’ and posed ‘a significant risk to members of the public of serious harm’.
He said: ‘The danger that you present is ongoing, it’s not possible to say when that danger will abate.’ Four covert officers, posing as like-minded extremists, befriended and monitored Chowdhury after he was freed from HMP Belmarsh when jurors cleared him in December 2018 of slashing police with a sword outside the Queen’s London home while shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’.
Within a week of his release he had begun posting extremist messages online…..