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Britain

UK government calls urgent meeting with BBC over Gaza documentary scandal

2025-03-01

[IsraelTimes] Culture secretary says she wants ‘assurances no stone will be left unturned’ in review of decision to air film that featured son of Hamas minister

The government is embarrassed — that kind of thing rolls downhill.

The British government called an urgent meeting with the BBC on Friday over the making of a documentary about children’s lives in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
that was narrated by the 13-year-old son of a deputy minister in the Paleostinian enclave’s Hamas
Hamas

..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
government.

The BBC said on Thursday there had been "serious flaws" in "Gaza: How To Survive A War Zone," made by an independent production company, and removed it from its online platform, days after it was first broadcast on television.

Which they only noticed a week after the thing aired and the appalled protests spread.

Hamas is deemed a terrorist organization by Britannia, the United States and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
The BBC’s decision followed criticism by online commentators who said the narrator was the son of Ayman al-Yazouri, deputy minister of agriculture in Gaza.

Independent producer Jamie Roberts produced something too good to check, so the BBC didn’t demand answers, even though Mr. Roberts is known in certain circles for, among others, the 2016 release of The Jihadis Next Door

(also in our archives as The Jihadist Next Door) for Channel 4, about a group of London followers of Anjem Choudary’s dawa (outreach) group al-Muhajiroun, some of whom ended up killing and dying — in this case for ISIS, though since the 1990s al Muhajiroun has fed killers to various branches of both ISIS and Al Qaeda — following the path laid down by half the British jihadis at home and abroad.Britannia’s publicly funded BBC has faced criticism over its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza by external commentators and some staff members. Some critics accuse it of bias toward the Paleostinians, others of bias toward Israel.

Did the producer get USAID money to help make the thing? Did the BBC for its production?

BBC Director General Tim Davie, when quizzed by politicians, said last year the BBC was overall "doing a good job in terms of delivering impartial coverage amidst enormous pressure."

No doubt that’s what it looks like from his perspective, given their coverage ranges from far left to slightly less far left despite the criticism from the actual right.

The BBC said in a statement that an internal review had found that the corporation had asked Hoyo Films — the production company it commissioned — several times in writing whether the family in the documentary had any connection to Hamas.

Several times? Why would they ask such a thing, and why would they need reassurance about the answer?

The BBC said Hoyo Films acknowledged the connection only after the documentary was broadcast.

Possibly a mistake.

The production company also revealed that they paid the boy’s mother "a limited sum of money" for the narration.
The BBC is seeking additional assurance that no money was paid directly or indirectly to Hamas.

The lad’s mother is married to a Hamas big turban. What odds she said nothing to her husband?

Announcing Friday’s meeting with BBC Chair Samir Shah, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said: "I want assurances that no stone will be left unturned." She was referring to a BBC pledge to undertake a full fact-finding review and refer the issue to its editorial complaints unit.

The broadcaster apologized for the documentary late on Thursday, saying the processes and execution around its production fell short of its expectations.

It said the production company and the BBC had made unacceptable errors and that the BBC took full responsibility for the mistakes and their impact on the corporation’s reputation.

The production company could not immediately be reached for comment. Hamas did not immediately comment.

Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel said it was "utterly disgraceful" that the BBC had decided to air a "Hamas propaganda film" in the week that the bodies of hostage Shiri Bibas and her two sons were returned from Gaza. She called for a thorough investigation.

The revelations sparked an angry response and led to protests outside the BBC’s London headquarters.

A spokesperson for Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) said: "The BBC’s bias and lack of accountability have led it to a new low, where it is a mouthpiece for murderous Moslems and their supporters."

The Telegraph also reported Tuesday that the Arabic words for "Jew" and "Jews" were translated to "Israelis" or "Israeli forces," and all mentions of "Jihad" were translated to "battle" or "resistance."

The work of the producer or of the BBC? It matters who dunnit….

The broadcaster is now working to determine whether any disciplinary action is warranted "in relation to shortcomings in the making of this program."

"This will include issues around the use of language, translation and continuity that have also been raised with the BBC," it said.

The BBC’s decision to remove the documentary from its catch-up service also led to criticism, with more than 500 TV and film workers — including former England soccer player Gary Lineker — sending an open letter calling the move "politically-motivated censorship."

"This film is an essential piece of journalism, offering an all-too-rare perspective on the lived experiences of Paleostinian children living in unimaginable circumstances, which amplifies voices so often silenced," said the letter.

The documentary was initially broadcast on February 17.

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Fifth Column

With the West excusing terrorism, who needs Islamists?

2025-01-03

[IsraelNationalNews] Europe and America gave many terrorists everything: educational and job opportunities, entertainment and sexual freedom, salaries and social assistance and religious freedom. The terrorists below have never seen a day of poverty in their lives.

With Westerners excusing terrorism, who needs Islamists?

July 14, 2016, Nice. During the fireworks festival, an Islamic terrorist kills 87 people, adults and children, under a truck that claimed to be carrying ice cream to the celebration of the French Revolution.

Four days later, the famous philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, disciple and friend of Jacques Derrida, publishes an article in Libération entitled "A truck launched". Despite having gone almost unnoticed, the article has lost none of its interest:

"A truck launched to run over children - among others - gives an unbearable image of nihilism. Nihilism itself names an end: that of our history and our civilization (...) It is not enough to declare war on it. We must attack ourselves, climb aboard and dismantle the mad trucks of our supposed progress, our fantasies of domination and our commercial obesity".

Clear? Terrorists and Westerners are the same, for our little masters of thought.

The terrorist who killed 15 people with a pickup truck in New Orleans on New Year’s Day (what better way to start the year than with another Islamic massacre?) was named Shamsud-Din Jabbar.

The Wall Street Journal has a pretty good portrait: a native Texan, an Army veteran (he also served in Afghanistan), a state university graduate, and a father of three, he had worked his way up the corporate ladder. Jabbar was an attentive neighbor who regularly asked a retiree if she needed anything and had given her a vacuum cleaner, washer, and dryer when he moved in. A model citizen. The New York Times reveals that he had converted to Islam.

This time, no taqiya, like there was in the case of the attacker who drove the car into the Christmas market in Magdeburg (by the way, the security of the German market was contracted to a company called "Mecca Security" !! some stories are so absurd that they can’t be invented).

But according to the official media, a "vehicle" killed 15 people in New Orleans.

Worse than the media is the legion of Western idiots who say that Islamic terrorism is a consequence of capitalism, colonialism, Israel, white and Jewish supremacy, in short, it is our fault, the West.

The Islamic terrorist who killed the British MP David Amess in the church is the son of a former advisor to the prime minister of Somalia.

Poverty and deprivation are not, as the fatuous John Kerry said, "the main cause of terrorism." Islam is.

Syed Rizwan Farook, a thirty-year-old Muslim of Pakistani origin, and his Saudi wife Tashfeen Malik, unloaded their semi-automatic rifles on the employees of a center for the disabled in California, killing 14 people during a Christmas party, the favorite season for massacres. Farook was an American citizen and worked as an inspector at the county health department. He earned seventy thousand dollars a year.

A graduate in engineering, his father a public works employee, his sister an elementary school teacher, Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez killed four marines in a recruitment center in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Michael Adebowale, the terrorist who slaughtered British soldier Lee Regby in the heart of London, had a bright future ahead of him. At school, his teachers had chosen him as a "model student".

Take Aafia Siddiqui, one of Al Qaeda’s Amazons, she is a neurologist who graduated from MIT and was sentenced to 86 years in prison.

And don't forget the psychiatrist who, shouting "Allahu Akbar", massacred his comrades at Fort Hood. Thirteen dead. Dr. Nidal Hassan.

The son of a wealthy banker who studied at one of the most prestigious universities in the world, University College London (in terms of academic results, it is the fourth university in the world) and lived in the chic heart of the English capital - that was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the attacker of the Christmas flight Amsterdam-Detroit. He lived on the fifth floor of a building on Mansfield Street. Neoclassical columns, an Art Nouveau door with a large basket of wrought iron roses, a few blocks from Oxford Street, where an apartment costs around two million euro.

And there is Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, one of the terrorists who killed Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal journalist beheaded because he was Jewish. Sheikh is the son of a wealthy carpet merchant and had graduated from the London School of Economics.

Aqsa Mahmood, one of the most high-profile women in ISIS, lived in Pollokshields, one of the rich neighborhoods of Glasgow. Her father is the first Pakistani cricketer in Scotland. All their children went to private school.

Omar Khan Sharif, who blew himself up in a Tel Aviv cafe, attended one of the UK’s most elite schools, Foremarke Hall in Repton, founded in 1557 and whose alumni included writers such as Roald Dahl, Christopher Isherwood and the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Ramsey.

Yet, from the intellectual left to Pope Francis, it is repeated that these Islamic fanatics are being recruited from among the world’s oppressed, from those who, in the words of Karl Marx, have "only their chains to lose." No, my friends, they are religious fanatics intent on overthrowing the Western society that spawned them.

Faisal Shahzad, the terrorist behind the failed Times Square attack, had a $273,000 house and a father who is a high-ranking officer in the Pakistani army. And what about Abdelkarim Mejjati, the mastermind behind the Madrid massacres, who grew up in the exclusive Gauthier neighborhood of Casablanca to a very rich father and a mother who ran a chain of beauty salons?

Europe and America gave these terrorists everything: educational and job opportunities, entertainment and sexual freedom, salaries and social assistance and religious freedom. These terrorists have never seen a day of poverty in their lives.

The Paris terrorists rejected liberté, egalité and fraternité; the British jihadists rejected the sweet British multicultural lullabies; the Islamist who killed Theo van Gogh repudiated Dutch relativism and Palestinian Arab terrorists want to cleanse the earth of the Jewish presence.

But for those who think that the West deserves it in part and are now in the top echelons of politics, the media, and universities, it is much easier and more seductive to embrace the common belief that we are the guilty ones. Self-hatred, oikophobia, will end up killing us.

With Westerners like that, who needs Islamic terrorism?

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Government Corruption

Far-Left Democrats Reveal Muslims Used Massive Voter Fraud To Install All Muslim City Council In Michigan

2024-08-07

[X]

UNDERCOVER EXPOSE: Far-Left Democrats Reveal Muslims Used MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD to Install All Muslim City Council in Michigan

Ironically, the Muslim Community took what Democrat Progressives in Hamtramck and Detroit have been doing for well over a decade. Now they are… pic.twitter.com/OVbcXNhf1A
— 🇺🇸 Pamela Geller 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 (@PamelaGeller) August 6, 2024

… suffering, whining that essentially they got played by their own invented ballot harvesting game.

https://gellerreport.com/2024/08/undercover-expose-far-left-democrats-reveal-muslims-used-massive-voter-fraud-to-install-all-muslim-city-council-in-michigan.html/
Two words: Dear God!

More on the Project Veritas report from two days ago.

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Britain

The Legacy of Five Governments: Why Britain Drowned in Pogroms

2024-08-06

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Leonid Tsukanov

[REGNUM] The Labour government faces its first major challenge since being elected as the country has been engulfed in unrest for almost a week following the high-profile murder of three children in Southport.

British citizen Axel Rudakubana, whose parents moved to the country from Rwanda, has stirred up society with his attack and once again brought to the forefront issues that the gentlemen of Downing Street preferred not to mention.

ROOTS OF DISCONTENT
This is not the first time that Foggy Albion has faced such unrest. In modern British history, there have been at least ten major episodes when interethnic and interfaith disputes first spilled over into street confrontations and then into pogroms.

True, almost all of them occurred during the era of Conservative prime ministers – with the possible exception of incidents in Manchester (2001) and Birmingham (2005), which had to be resolved by the Labour Party's Tony Blair. However, these conflict situations were then viewed as a "legacy" of the social policy miscalculations of the Conservative John Major.

Now the government led by Keir Starmer has received its own “inheritance” – and for five predecessors at once. The unrest in Southport, fuelled by anti-immigrant and Islamophobic rumours, quickly spread to other major cities, including London.

The far-right English Defence League has been rightly blamed for organising these disturbances – its members (the vast majority of whom are young) have been the driving force behind any protests even indirectly related to migration since 2009. In addition, it was members of the League who helped to fuel the unrest in Southport by spreading a rumour that the attack was carried out by an illegal migrant.

British tabloids routinely hint at the presence of a “Russian connection.” However, this time they did not ignore the Conservatives, who allegedly receive direct benefits from the failures of the Labor government and themselves push anti-migrant forces to continue the unrest.

Meanwhile, the roots of discontent should be sought somewhat deeper.

Following the migrant crisis triggered by the conflict in Syria in the mid-2010s, Britain faced an influx of refugees from the Middle East. Their arrival was seized upon by radical propagandists, including Pakistani-born British lawyer Anjem Choudary.

The latter not only welcomed the appearance of “Sharia patrols” in London, but also supported the activities of jihadists in Syria and Iraq in every possible way, “blessed” supporters of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to commit crimes, and helped terrorist recruiters illegally enter the country.

The fact that Choudary was only given a life sentence in 2021 (he had previously been jailed for just five years, despite having been a radical for at least 20 years) continues to be used to illustrate the shortcomings of British policy on sensitive issues such as illegal immigration and terrorism. The situation has changed little over the years.

Another serious blow to Britain’s resilience to the threat of mass migration was its exit from the European Union (the so-called Brexit). After the 2016 referendum, London gradually began to withdraw from pan-European control mechanisms, and migration rates inevitably soared.

In the first quarter of 2024 alone, almost 5,000 people entered the country illegally, adding to the more than 56,000 who had already arrived in the past year. London has also, at various times, accepted refugees not only from the Middle East but also from Asia and Africa, increasing tensions between communities and the native population.

As expected, the interests of the working class (the main electorate of the Labor Party) suffered from the influx of guests from abroad, since migrants took over some positions in the labor market, displacing the native population. Each year, the percentage of those displaced steadily increased, and the government preferred to remain silent once again, which only exacerbated the problem.

At the same time, the conservatives' attempts to maneuver between dissatisfied groups - for example, by promoting the idea of deporting captured illegal immigrants to third countries - ended in nothing. The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which none of the previous prime ministers dared to withdraw from, prevented this.

HOW WILL DOWNING STREET RESPOND?
Since the first days of the riots, Labour has sought to demonstrate the toughness of its position. In his address to the nation, Prime Minister Starmer promised that the rioters would “regret taking part in mass riots,” and he even dubbed what is happening in British cities “far-right thuggery.”

At the instigation of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Internal Affairs promptly increased security in Muslim neighborhoods and religious sites to prevent armed attacks. Additional steps were taken by other departments as well.

At the same time, the work of the Labour Party is currently aimed exclusively at quelling popular unrest: the Starmer government does not have a clear plan on how to solve the problem of illegal migration and relieve social tension. Moreover, they do not plan to withdraw from the ECHR, as the Conservatives previously proposed.

Moreover, given the fact that the attack was carried out by a British citizen (albeit an ethnic Rwandan), the crackdown on migrants and ethnic communities looks dubious and is likely to be seen as an attempt to appease xenophobic groups.

On the other hand, blaming the English Defence League exclusively (while ignoring other hidden actors) also seems like a losing proposition. It guarantees a repeat of the crisis in the future – on an even larger scale.

The Labour Party has not yet developed a “middle” approach, and the time to “name the culprit” has already been lost.

Also, against the backdrop of the miscalculations of Starmer and his team, right-wing populists have become more active, in particular the Reform Party, which had previously built its election campaign on criticism of the Conservatives’ “migration laissez-faire.” Now the “reformers” have switched to Labour, which, in their opinion, is repeating the same mistakes as their predecessors.

Of course, the current protests are unlikely to cost Starmer his premiership – or his party its governing status – but, as with the Conservatives, they cast some doubt on the feasibility of the promises made during the election campaign.

And this could play a cruel joke on the Labour Party in the next electoral cycle.

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Good Morning

2024-08-02

WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich released
by Russia in prisoner swap; Paul Whelan also being freed

Friday 08/02/2024

Anjem Choudary gets 28 years

Suzanne Pleshette and her Cleavage

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Convicted child sex offender says he's gonna come for all your kids to teach them about sex and blames his conviction on capitalism

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Britain

Anjem Choudary gets 28 years

2024-08-02

[X]

UK: Jihad preacher Anjem Choudary, who called for Pamela Geller to be executed on national television, gets 28 years of prison dawahhttps://t.co/BkumTUnT2M
— 🇺🇸 Pamela Geller 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 (@PamelaGeller) August 1, 2024

Anjem Choudary
...self-proclaimed holy man who used to work for Omar Mohammed Bakdri as spokesman for al-Muhajiroun. Anjem is a loathesome little attention prostitute who is to be heard cheering for the home team anytime anybody with a turban manages to slaughter a group of unarmed infidels. Anjem was born in the UK in 1967 and is, as you would expect, of Pakistaini descent. The Ghost of Dante is of the opinion that when he goes to hell his knees will be broken once a month. He was in jug for awhile for supporting the Islamic State...

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Britain

Anjem Choudry facing life in jug for directing terrorism

2024-07-24

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

And I told people about this guy about 10 years ago and was judged. How the fuck was Anjem Choudary allowed to walk our streets untouched for so long. And the police arrest individuals for carry a fucking flag that represents this country. pic.twitter.com/iAC8hb2s5Z
— Sir Johnny OBE (@Farmer_Boycie) July 23, 2024

We've only been following this goon for twenty three years.

Indeed. Here’s what Fred’s cute little auto-translate has to say about him:

Anjem Choudary
Anjem Choudary

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Britain

British MP files case against Israel in International Criminal Court

2023-12-18

Filing is easy. Getting the court to actually take up the case...

[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Independent Member of the British Parliament, Claudia Webb, has filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court to investigate Israeli war crimes in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, demanding that the perpetrators be prosecuted.

The MP for Leicester East said, in a post on her account on the "X" platform, that the scale of the bombing of Gaza and the loss of civilian lives requires immediate action.

Claudia added, "I will not be an accomplice to the crimes that occur in Gaza."

"As a member of the British Parliament, I signed a complaint to the International Criminal Court to investigate war crimes committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip and prosecute their perpetrators." She said.

Claudia, known in Britannia for her stances in support of peoples’ rights to self-determination, stressed, saying, "We cannot remain silent."

In a second post, she called on her supporters to sign the international initiative "Justice for Gaza," with the aim of mobilizing international positions to stop the war against civilians in the Strip.

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Britain

British rapper-turned Jihadi Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 32, who was long thought to be one of the ISIS Beatles is found dead in his Spanish prison cell while awaiting a verdict on terror charges

2023-07-27

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A former British rapper once believed to be the ISIS killer 'Jihadi' John has been found dead in his prison cell in Spain.

Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary,

...another Anjem Choudary protégé and 2nd gen jihadi...

32, had been tried earlier this month at a court in Madrid on suspicion of heading an itinerant jihadist cell he allegedly formed after leaving Syria, and was awaiting the verdict.

He is understood to have been found dead at a prison in El Puerto de Santa Maria in Cadiz, south west Spain. One unconfirmed local report said his body presented no obvious signs of any violence.
too bad.
An internal Spanish Prison service investigation will now take place and his family will be given the right to hold their own autopsy aside from the official post-mortem to establish the exact cause of death.

A separate probe will be carried out by a court in the town of El Puerto de Santa Maria.

He was arrested with two men described as aides less than a week after they were smuggled onto a beach on Spain's south-east coastline in April 2020.

Abdel Bary was born in Egypt but schooled in London. He was stripped of his British citizenship after allegedly joining ISIS and was charged after a long-running investigation sparked by his arrest at a hideaway rented flat in Almeria.

Investigating judge Maria Tardon concluded in her written ruling outlining her decision to charge him that he had been smuggled into Spain by boat with two Algerian men less than a week before he was located and held.

He was warned before his trial at Madrid's Audiencia Nacional court, which finished on July 14, he could face nine years in prison if convicted.

On the opening day of his trial he denied all terrorism charges against him, insisting he had never been in the Syrian city of Raqqa before claiming he went to the country for humanitarian reasons.

Prosecutors said in a pre-trial indictment that the former British national, the son of Adel Abdel Bari

...an Al Qaeda Big Turban who didn't spend nearly enough time in prison — or possibly too much, depending on one’s philosophy about such things...

who confessed to murdering more than 200 people in a series of Islamist bombings in Africa, used bitcoin to buy stolen or cloned bank cards on the Dark Web.

His alleged accomplices, named before the trial as Abderrazak Seddiki, 30, and Kossaila Chollouah, 27 were accused in a pre-trial indictment of playing other key roles in the fraud including carding which is a type of credit card scam in which a criminal steals or fraudulently uses credit card details to buy prepaid gift cards.

He was alleged to have posted an image of himself holding a severed head on Twitter.

He was accused of posing for a photo with the head in the Syrian city of Raqqa with the caption 'Chillin' with my homie or what's left of him' in August 2014.

The alleged terrorist, who at his trial showed he had put on considerable weight since his arrest, denied it was him with the severed head.

Insisting he and his family had lived in the UK for more than 30 years and completely adopted a Western lifestyle, Abdel Bary told the court trying him: 'Al Qaeda and all the radical extremists… I hate them. I don't agree with their ideology or actions.'

Abdel Bary claimed to be a Syrian national called Ahmed Mohamed Al Oulabi when he was held in Almeria in April 2020.

Reports at the time said he was arrested after police spotters identified him by his ears when he opened a second-floor door to receive a kebab takeout from an Uber Eats kebab delivery man.

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Britain

UK remands Islamist preacher in custody on terror charges

2023-07-25

Both arrested a week ago, but clearly not to be trusted out on bail until convicted and starting their formal prison sentences.

[IsraelTimes] Radical holy man Anjem Choudary was arrested together with a Canadian man; both are charged with being members of a terrorist organization

British Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary
Anjem Choudary

...anyone know what his birth name was? He somehow doesn’t look like a Khaled...

was also ordered held in jug after he was charged with membership of a proscribed organization.

Both appeared separately at Westminster Magistrates Court in London, which heard that the charges relate to "an extreme form of Islam."

"The charges relate to the proscribed organization al-Muhajiroun
...formerly Omar Bakri Muhammad's spin off group from Hizb ut-Tahrir in Britain, where the detestable lunatic Anjem Chaudry got his start. More recently the name adopted by al-Qaeda in East Africa for operations in Kenya and Tanzania. It is subordinate to al-Shabaab but will probably be strong enough to fly on its own, given an uninterrupted flow of petrodollars, should the Shaboobs collapse....
, also known as the Islamic Thinkers Society," prosecutor Nick Price said.

Anjem Choudary’s branch fed fighters to both Al Qaeda and ISIS, being the connection to oodles of vicious men in our archives and beyond.

"Criminal proceedings against Mr. Choudary and Mr. Hussein are now active and they each have the right to a fair trial," he added.

Chief magistrate Paul Goldspring ordered the pair remanded in jug and set their next appearance, at the central criminal courthouse known as the Old Bailey, on August 4.

Choudary, from east London, wore a black jacket and glasses, and spoke only to confirm his name, date of birth and address during Monday’s 30-minute court hearing. He was not asked to enter any pleas to the three charges.

A lawyer for Hussein, who is from Edmonton in the Canadian province Alberta, said he would not be entering a plea. The defendant spoke — in a Canadian accent — only to confirm his name, date of birth and address.

He is alleged to have been in "close contact" with Choudary online to provide "a platform" for the group’s views for around two years, the court heard.

Counterterror officers investigating alleged membership of the proscribed organization arrested both men last Monday, the Metropolitan police has said.

Officers detained Choudary in east London and held Hussein at Heathrow Airport after he arrived on a flight.

The BBC has a photo of the weedy, Canadian-looking Mr. Hussein, adding:

Mr Hussein is charged with being a member of Al Muhajiroun. Prosecutors allege he helped set up its Canadian branch and say he was "in effect working for" Choudary.

An offshoot of Al-Muhajiroun was banned, or proscribed, in 2006 for glorifying terrorism.

That ban was expanded in 2010 to include a number of other names, including Al-Muhajiroun.

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Britain

Britain's Most Notorious ‘Hate Preacher' Anjem Choudary Arrested on Suspected Terror Offence

2023-07-18

[Breitbart] Released from his prison sentence for supporting the Islamic State in 2018 and under tough legal controls preventing him from associating with suspected terrorists and from preaching until 2021, the infamous radical who calls for hardline Sharia for Britain has been arrested again.

Police investigating suspected terror offences arrested notorious hate preacher Anjem Choudary
Anjem Choudary

...self-proclaimed holy man who used to work for Omar Mohammed Bakdri as spokesman for al-Muhajiroun. Anjem is a loathesome little attention prostitute who is to be heard cheering for the home team anytime anybody with a turban manages to slaughter a group of unarmed infidels. Anjem was born in the UK in 1967 and is, as you would expect, of Pakistaini descent. The Ghost of Dante is of the opinion that when he goes to hell his knees will be broken once a month. He was in jug for awhile for supporting the Islamic State...
in a dawn raid at his East London home on Monday morning. A second man, who is a Canadian citizen, was arrested at Heathrow Airport as he arrived on a flight from Canada later that day.

A police statement said both were arrested “on suspicion of membership of a proscribed organisation” and are being held under section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000. Per the government’s own summary of that law, “police officers have the power to arrest persons suspected of terrorism-related offences without a warrant. These arrest powers also allow the extended detention of persons beyond the maximum 4 days available under standard arrest powers, to a maximum of 14 days”.

Anjem Choudary, once a regular figure appearing in British media and well-known for his extremist Islamist views and calls for Sharia law to be enforced in the United Kingdom, was convicted in 2016 for urging Muslims to support the Islamic State in videos published online. Although he was sentenced to five and a half years, he was released less than halfway through his sentence.

As reported at the time, the short sentence was blamed on “lack of evidence” but the government said at the time of his 2018 release that he would be watched “like a hawk” by the security services to prevent his “deeply pernicious, destabilising influence” from spreading in the country again. At the time of his release, he was subjected to a wide range of restrictions including orders preventing him from speaking in public, restricted his internet and phone usage, and limited his personal contact with suspected extremists. As noted, these were said to be some of the most strict release conditions ever imposed on a prisoner in British legal history.

Choudary was even ordered to attend deradicalisation lessons, but as previous experience has shown, these can have limited impact. The ban on Choudary speaking in public was lifted in 2021.

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Inside a city rocked by sectarian violence: How clashes between Hindu and Muslim mobs in Leicester have exposed underlying tensions in one of Britain's most diverse communities - and left residents living in fear

2022-09-24

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

Leicester had been upheld a one of the UK's most successful multi-cultural communities in Great Britain

But violence erupted in the past few days with 25 police officers being injured and 47 arrests made in the city

Riots blamed on a cricket match between India and Pakistan, but Nick Fagge says Leicester is a 'tinderbox'

This week 200 Muslim men protested at in Birmingham against Hindu woman linked to extremism in India

After the most recent clashes in Leicester, MailOnline sent reporter Nick Fagge inside a city at war

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