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Hate preacher Anjem Choudary to be freed from jail despite remaining 'genuinely dangerous' |
2018-09-16 |
![]() [Telegraph] Anjem Choudary, the notorious Islamist hate preacher, will be released from jail next month despite a chilling warning from the justice minister that he remained "genuinely dangerous". Choudary, 51, is due to be freed within weeks after serving half of a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence for encouraging Muslims to join Islamic State. The Government admitted on Tuesday it was powerless to prevent Choudary from being released on licence. Rory Stewart, the prisons minister, said that the preacher was "a deeply pernicious, destabilising influence". Mr Stewart, in an interview, added: "He is... somebody who is a genuinely dangerous person. We will be watching him very carefully." Choudary was leader of the proscribed terrorist group al-Muhajiroun, whose followers included Khuram Butt, part of the London Bridge terror cell who murdered eight innocent bystanders in June last year. Other disciples include Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, the killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby, murdered outside his barracks in south London in 2013. |
Posted by:Frank G |
#7 The UK at present is on a national suicide spiral. |
Posted by: Alaska Paul 2018-09-16 22:23 |
#6 Exile, terminate in six months. |
Posted by: KBK 2018-09-16 20:08 |
#5 In the War between Good and Evil, Evil sometimes wins a skirmish. |
Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2018-09-16 18:37 |
#4 We will be watching him very carefully. That way, when something jumps off that he was responsible for, we can say we were aware of it so we don't look like the useless wankers that we are. See "Known Wolf" |
Posted by: SteveS 2018-09-16 12:43 |
#3 Watch him all you want; it is the twenty others they just inspired who will be the problem. |
Posted by: swksvolFF 2018-09-16 12:39 |
#2 We will be watching him very carefully. "We will be watching him like he was a Russian."? |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-09-16 12:16 |
#1 "He is... somebody who is a genuinely dangerous person. We will be watching him very carefully." I have no doubt they will watch him encourage, tolerate, and harbor terrorism quite carefully. Mike |
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2018-09-16 11:30 |