Of course he is. He is in a hospital in the first place because the British authorities deny the reality of jihad and instead classify it as “mental illness,” while paying lip service to the idea that Aswat was in the grip of an “extremist” ideology that has nothing whatsoever to do with actual Islam. They have to release him, despite the danger he poses to the public, because to do otherwise would be “Islamophobic.” Or maybe they’re hoping he will commit some act of violence against British citizens that will help them justify the further authoritarian measures they wish to impose.
“Terrorist who is ‘risk to national security’ moving back to West Yorkshire,” by Tom Kershaw and Callum Parke, LeedsLive, April 3, 2025:
A convicted al Qaeda terrorist deemed a danger to national security by police has not been formally risk assessed ahead of his imminent release from a hospital in the UK, a High Court judge has said.
Haroon Aswat was jailed for 20 years in 2015 in New York after admitting to two terror-related offences, having previously been involved in attempting to set up a “terrorist training camp” in the US with radical cleric Abu Hamza in the 1990s.
He was deported back to the UK in 2022 after periods of custody awaiting extradition to the US were taken into account and has since been detained in hospital, with his release expected soon to his family in West Yorkshire.
At a hearing on Tuesday, the Metropolitan Police applied for a “notification order”, meaning Aswat would be subject to certain requirements about informing police of his whereabouts and personal life upon his release. In a ruling, Mr Justice Jay approved the order for 30 years, which Aswat – who is originally from Batley – did not oppose.
But he said that despite a psychiatrist’s finding in 2022 that there “remains the risk of Islamic violent extremism” by Aswat, who had said “I am a terrorist”, no risk assessment had been carried out….
He said that the psychiatrist had concluded “there remains the risk of Islamic violent extremism-motivated targeted terrorist offending behaviour given his threats to kill Jews, Christians and certain groups of Muslims … (t)here is also a risk of him influencing other vulnerable individuals, as when he is in an abnormal mental state his religious extremist rhetoric is amplified by mental illness”.
Aswat, who is now 50, helped to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon and Seattle in the US from 1999, which the American government described as a camp “to train young impressionable men in America to fight and kill so that they could travel to Afghanistan to join forces with al Qaida”.
He then travelled to Afghanistan to receive training from al Qaida in 2001, and in 2005 was arrested in Zambia and extradited to the UK. In August that year, he was then arrested in the UK because of an arrest warrant being issued for him in the US, and was eventually extradited….
jerry glenn says
UK solidifies its lead in the European Islamopandering derby.
somehistory says
That ghoul was beaten with an ugly stick. Send him to afghanistan where he can join his fellow terrorists and feel at home.
Since he set up the camps in the U.S., why was he “extradited to the U.K”? Why was he not sent to a max prison, or removed from the country to afghanistan? And if he was sentenced to 20 years, why did he not serve it?
Perhaps my math is off, but 15 plus 20 is 35, not 25. The writing of the article, although in English, is very confusing.
James Lincoln says
somehistory says,
“Since he set up the camps in the U.S., why was he “extradited to the U.K”?”
Great point.
He should have been sent to ADX Florence, Colorado.
somehistory says
I agree, James, and thank you. Had he been sent there, he might still be there.
Hoi Polloi says
I’d like to know, also. Then, did they check his DNA against all their rape cases? Finally, can they explain why they freed him while retaining all their hurty words prisoners? Is there some sharia-supporting formula where terrorism counts for 1/100 but words pointing out rapists and terrorists score 100/100 —- go directly to jail, do not pass Go? Must be.
somehistory says
I doubt they checked his DNA. That costs money, and it would have taken away from his welfare checks.
David M says
Have a look at this hillbilly Muslim, some serious inbreeding been going on there. The teeth are a giveaway.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
In Yorkshire he can become a veterinarian’s assistant. You know – All Creatures Great and Small. Just don’t let him near dogs. .Or he could open a second-hand children’s book shop. Dr. Seuss, Margaret Wise Brown, A. A. .Milne… Or he might open a small restaurant, open 2-7 p.m., serving only high teas, which will include his specialty — strawberry scones with Cornish clotted cream.. We all make mistakes. Within a few months, Haroon Aswat will fit right in.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
If he’s not a threat to the newly islamized Ummah Kaliphate, how can he be a threat to the national security of the UK?
Edward McMunn says
There really is only one way to deal with islam a nazis and communists. I can not post the cure because I want to continue to post comments. Those of you who want to know what I am reffering to will know.
OLD GUY says
Just plain stupid to let this trash back into society. If you are going to release him at least drop him into one of his precious islamic countries from 10,000 feet.