Terror leader’s conviction raises questions

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By Michael Ashcraft —

Anjem Choudary — who called the 9/11 terrorist “magnificent martyrs” — was convicted yesterday for the second time of leading a terror group in the UK. He went right back to promoting violence after release from his first conviction.

His UK group Al Muhajiroun’s “tentacles have spread across the world and have had a massive impact on public safety and security,” said Dominic Murphy, head of the Met’s counterterrorism police.

His propagation of Islamic world domination by violence is seen by many Muslims as the purest form of Islam, a religion that established an empire from Spain to Southeast Asia with astonishing speed by giving invaded peoples three alternatives: death, conversion or tribute.

He is believed responsible for up to 40% of terror attacks in the United Kingdom including the 2005 London bombings that killed 52 people. Sharia “has to be adopted wholesale,” Choudary said. “It will come either by embracing Islam because it is the fastest growing religion in the country, or by an Islamic country conquering Britain or by elements embracing Islam and imposing it”

As ex-Muslim Harris Sultan observes, Christianity and Hinduism have found ways to relegate away unsavory elements of their scriptures; Islam instead super-charges them.

“As Muslims, we reject democracy, we reject secularism, and freedom, and human rights. We reject all of the things that you espouse as being ideals,” Choudary said. “There is nothing called a republic in Islam. When we talk about the sharia, we are talking about only the sharia. We are talking about rejecting the U.N., the IMF, and the World Bank.”

After being banned in 2010, al-Muhajiroun regularly changed its name. The group operated under more than 50 aliases during its existence, Choudary said in a covert audio recording heard during his trial, the BBC reported. Its counterpart in America is Islamic Thinkers Society.

Of Pakistani descent, the British-born Choudary, 57, from Ilford, East London, was arrested on 17 July 2023.

In the heyday of the ISIS caliphate, Choudary swore allegiance to the group and recruited fighters for them. After his first arrest and jail, he no longer openly recruited but resorted to online discussions with encryption that was penetrated by British, American and Canadian intelligence agencies.

Choudary, who declared being called an extremist was a “medallion of honor,” will likely be condemned to a life sentence in coming weeks.

When the Muslim Council of Britain condemned the July 2005 London bombings, Choudary accused them of “selling their souls to the devil.”

He reportedly collects Jobseeker’s Allowance for his four children to the amount of £25,000, in U.S. money $39,000 per year, and has explained “to followers how to receive government assistance they can use to fund a Muslim holy war.”

In a “secretly recorded video” he called the allowance “Jizya” (tax on non-Muslims) “which is ours anyway.”

Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed, one of the attackers in the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings, that killed more than 250 people, was said to be radicalized by Choudary. Other terrorist attacks are attributed to him.

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About this writer: Michael Ashcraft pastors a church in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles.

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