Anjem Choudary has been preaching jihad openly for years, while the British authorities have been too busy hounding counter-jihadists (and banning foreign ones from the country) to do anything about it. They’re arresting him now? Has the heat gotten too much for David Cameron and Theresa May over their disgracefully supine response to Islamic jihad terror? In any case, it is likely that Anjem will be out and about, and up to his usual mischief, in the blink of an eye.
Watch last week’s Glazov Gang with Choudary, Zuhdi Jasser and me here.
“Anjem Choudary faces UK terrorism charges over Islamic State,” BBC, August 5, 2015:
Radical UK preacher Anjem Choudary is one of two men who has been charged with inviting support for Islamic State militants, Scotland Yard says.
He is accused of “inviting support” for so-called Islamic State (IS) between 29 June 2014 and 6 March this year.
He and another man, Mohammed Mizanur Rahman, have each been charged with one offence under section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000….
Mr Choudary, 48, of Ilford in east London, and Mohammed Rahman, 32, of Whitechapel in east London, were arrested on 25 September last year on suspicion of being members of IS, which is a proscribed organisation….
Paula Boddington says
Yes it defies belief he’s been preaching his open hatred and incitement to violence for so long. While it remains to be seen if anything will come of this, I am taking my chances to celebrate wherever we can. Since there are videos around of him at demonstrations with crowds chanting ‘Khaybar Khaybar ya Yahud’ I hope as well as the specific charge of inviting support for Islamic State he will also be charged with inciting general violence against the Jews.
marty says
I agree.
The Jew hatred which mohammedans are allowed to spew in the UK is unpunished
because it is encouraged by their ghastly religion.
The UK authorities should recognise that mohammedan schools, including taxpayer funded ones
are simply breeding grounds for misfits & terrorists.
The US gun laws are seen in the UK as unwise.
To Americans & educated Brits, UK religious schools, especially muslim ones must seem much more dangerous in the longer term.
mortimer says
But Jew-hatred is ‘worshipping Allah’ according to Hamas.
jayell says
Yes, it looks like they think they’ve got him now. He’s a qualified lawyer and knew how to ‘stay inside the box’ until now, apparently. Or maybe he’s just outlived his usefulness to the Authorities, and now they want him out of circulation? Fingers crossed,as they say. On a different matter, UK readers will have noticed that the late Edward Heath (former UK Prime Minister) has now come into the witch-hunters’ frame, and it’s all over the UK press (as with all previous targets). He seems to have replaced Cliff Richard (the veteran pop star) because they clearly weren’t getting anywhere with him and his lawyers were no doubt going to bite back, but the BBC sadly can’t send in any helicopters in with this character because there’s no point in one of these machines hovering over a gravestone (Mr. Heath died in 2005, so HE can’t answer back, just like someone else before? and Mr. Heath was Conservative, just right for the BBC’s potshots!). Now, as a confirmed bachelor, Mr Heath was always a bit of an ‘unknown quantity’ for those with an eye for mischief, and there was some of the usual idle tongue-wagging going on by those with nothing better to do even when he was alive and in office. Yet they wait until now to dig this one up? So what’s going on? Could it be that some of our girl-friendly muslim chums in Rotherham are about to be paraded in court (we know there’s actually been some action up there and its’ about time there was something to show for it), Cliff Richard turned out to be a dead-end, they did try to hang some other deceased politicians to dry, but you can make a lot of lovely smoke with the likes of Edward Heath. They’ve even been openly advertising for ‘victims’ in the national press! How blatant isTHAT? Honestly, you couldn’t make it up if you tried!
oldwhiteguy says
there is no shortage of stupid people in the UK.
Mirren10 says
There’s no shortage of stupid people all over the world.
JIMJFOX says
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
— Bertrand Russell
Rick Spencer says
Choudary and his ilk should immediately be transported to their beloved ‘Islamic State’ paradise on earth!
pdxnag says
(I wish I could just UpVote.)
Recognize it for what it is, Islam at face value. It is a rejection or renunciation of loyalty to a free Britain, a public announcement that they are not a citizen of anything other than the Islamic Ummah. Then ship them out to their favorite Islamic hell hole.
Lu says
As far as I know, he is British citizen, born in the UK. You can not deport him to anywhere. The police should be looking into his potential crimes as treason, hate speech (juicy using THIS against him, right?) etc. to get him out of the streets … for he is as disloyal to the UK as he could be.
Lia Wissing says
Can one change the law? Surely, no country has to endure traitors?
Fat Tony says
Do you guys still throw traitors in The Tower and then chop their heads off?
jayell says
Yes, he was born in the UK of (I believe) Bangla Deshi parents.
He qualified as a lawyer but is unemployed and lives off all the benefits he can get (which tells you just about all you need to know about him).
Until now, he’s used his legal knowledge to be as offensive as possible and forming aggressive muslim organisations (which have all been banned), whilst avoiding arrest. Either he has now gone too far or the authorities no longer have a use for him in the field so they’ve opted to lock him up (he actually had police protection for a bit!).
Tony Blair repealed the Treason Laws about 20 or so years back (I think we all know his private reasons for doing that!) so we can’t get this character that way. And, yes, they could be reinstated, but I can’t see the current spineless lot doing that or using them against the islamic lobby even if the laws were in place. And they’d have to re-introduce the death penalty (like, that’s going to happen!!!??).
Carole says
Why does it take so long for these radical muslims who preach hate/terrorism etc. to be arrested? He has been around for years causing problems!
Koran-At-A-Glance says
This is all of a piece with Cameron’s flapping around trying to look as if he’s doing something, cf the British Navy ferrying emigrants from Africa to Italy for the onward journey to Calais where he pretends to keep them out, after which they become immigrants then residents then British citizens.
He’s just making a fuss about the symptoms and trying to stop Choudhary doing us the favour of pointing out the disease – which can be easily identified here:
http://www.koran-at-a-glance.com
Angemon says
Yeah, on the same sense that Hitler invited support for anti-semitism…
ich says
ABOUT TIME !!!
There is hope for UK yet !
Maybe he can get a job with Obama
Descendantofacrusader says
There’s that pontificating finger again inviting the viewer to behold the Islamic demon that Muslims submit to! The finger should actually be pointed downward to toward satan’s underworld abode.
JIMJFOX says
The upward-pointing finger- Allah is number one.
What comes to mind is a Monty Python cartoon animation where a pair of secateurs appears, screen left and neatly snips it off. Choudary stares unbelievingly at the stump- then the Big Foot descend to crush the Islamic insect…
Baucent says
About time, couldn’t have happened to a more deserving JIhadist.
Last month Choudary was still on the streets pushing his particular brand of hate while British courts were sentencing to home detention a man who put Halal warning stickers on meat in a supermarket. How Choudary has gone on for so long without being held accountable for his hate speech is unbelievable.
Westman says
Are we certain this isn’t a cover story to hide a dinner invitation for Choudary to 10 Downing Street? It seems so out of character that it must be a smoke screen to arrest one of the only pro-jihadist clerics who speaks the consistent truth about Islamic Doctrine.
Maybe the “closet jihadists” are trying to put a cork in the leak after deciding that Choudary is “still crazy after all these years”?
How will the government convict him without convicting the Quran and Hadith? He will quote them verbatim and claim that the doctrine of a recognized religion is protected speech. The government will be in exactly the position that it has strenuously avoided through appeasement; criticizing Islam.
I’m betting that Choudary is not convicted and will be released with some ineffectual warning as long as there is no evidence that he directly asked someone to participate in militant jihad.
Paul says
Indeed. I have no faith at all in our government to handle the threat
we face, nor in our supposed justice system. What a sick joke.
JIMJFOX says
Bring on those secateurs!
ECAW says
Surprise surprise. Gotta be seen to be even-handed haven’t we?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11784422/Katie-Hopkins-questioned-by-police-for-inciting-racial-hatred-with-migrants-column.html
Mirren10 says
I remember her on The Apprentice. Horrible woman, but she’s got it right about immigrants and ‘asylum seekers’. 🙂
mortimer says
As a lawyer, Choudary has been adept at tip-toeing through the minefield of anti-terrorist laws. Has he finally been caught? We’ll see.
He can still claim that he has a right to practice his religion (jihad). We hope he will. That will be delicious.
It will be an opportunity for the articulate jihad-preacher to establish that terrorism is completely Islamic. I can’t wait.
mortimer says
One Muslim in six ‘supports’ a terrorist group either morally or financially. They are the sort of people who will hide a terrorist, feed and clothe a terrorist and finance a terrorist.
One Muslim in six at least 200,000 Muslims living in UK. UK has a big problem…a growing problem.
The only solution is to deprogram Muslims out of Islam.
abad says
Better yet just deport them all. The UK does NOT need Muslims on its soil.
KrazyKafir says
It’s the quisling elites who need to be locked up.
Don McKellar says
I think that every time a moslem points his finger like that, somebody should give it a pull. Then, if they are confused, explain the old fart joke. That ought to get them going.
Either that of respond with the middle finger salute.
Atheist Kufar says
Hmmm!
Its about time but maybe that’s what he wants. To be thrown in jail so that he can radicalize from inside. On a sarcastic note. Chouidary was the only Muslim that didn’t use Taqyya. He spoke the truth about Islam. I have seen him on Fox news, The Glasov gang, Sun news etc. He says it how it is. There is no extreme Islam, or radical Islam, Islam is Islam. He is quite an educator and opened my eyes to political Islam. Bill Warren is also a very good educator to political Islam. Bill Warren is a must see and listen. However opposites Choudary and Warren concur about what Islam is. Scary stuff. If he does spend some time in jail they should put him in solitary confinement. Choudary does do a public service. He opens the eyes of the kufar to Islam and Mohamed’s self serving ideology. I have never read/seen such a contrived and self serving religion. What Mohamed wants Allah is so quick to give. I guess Mohamed was Allah’s little pet. My little pet you want 11 wives instead of 5 No problem! Allah will grant you that. No need for an official request in triplicate. You want to sodomize slave girls. NO problem. You want to marry a 6 year old No problem! Was there any request that Mohamed made to Allah that Allah did not grant? It seems to me that Mohamed was just as all knowing as Allah. Mohamed knew Allah’s answer before he asked the question or made a request. How contrived!
No Fear says
I thnk you mean Bill Warner not Bill Warren.
Omar BEDDALI says
Do not believe Anjem Choudary when he answers:” Because I’m a soldier of Allah and I must spread Islam all over the world” to the (legitimate) question: “why are you, as a muslim, suffering in these kafir countries of the west”. The true answer is: there is no place in any muslim country with such a freedom of speech, health care, security, this high level of education for my children, etc.
Kenny says
I don’t know what’s wrong with all of you?
Choudhary is great! Every time he opens his mouth in public he shows himself and his ideology up for what it really is.
I’d have him on TV every night as the message of Islamic reality would really get through to the public.
Well done Andy (pot smoking, porn addict, cider pisshead) Choudhary.
Jack Diamond says
The family of Lee Rigby might disagree with the gleeful enthusiasm for his continued public life or that he is harmless (even a boon to infidels) Not only did he inspire that killer, Choudary’s close associate Abu Rumaysah managed to skip bail and is now fighting for the Islamic State in Syria (“what a shoddy security system Britain must have to allow me to breeze through Europe to the Islamic State” he mocked in a tweet).
Michael Warden says
This man is my favourite muslim – he always speaks the truth about Islam unlike the other muslims who lie every time they open their mouths. I will not call muslims cockroaches – for two reasons. UK columnist Katie Hopkins was recently arrested by the UK Stasi for “inciting racial hatred” by calling muslims “cockroaches. What race is Islam again ? I will not call them cockroaches because that is insulting cockroaches. Reason number two is that I do not wish to have my collar felt. ” She was reported to the Stasi by by Peter Herbert, the Chair, Society of Black Lawyers. He earlier claimed it included “some of the most offensive, xenophobic and racist comments I have read in a British newspaper for some years”. “The column also prompted the UN high commissioner for human rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, to denounce Hopkins for using racist language and comparing her comments to pro-genocide propaganda “.
Please note that there is no Society of White Lawyers – that would be racist and illegal.
Caroline says
Katie is great, she tells it like it is. Maybe if more of us had been braver, our country wouldn’t be in the mess it is.
Geraldine says
According to the BBC, Choudary will be defending himself in court. As befits an “unemployed” qualified lawyer living on state benefits.Will this allow him to charge the UK government for his fees for defending himself as a legal aid solicitor on top of everything else? It wouldn’t surprise me.
Karen says
He has a fool for a client. But I’m okay with that.
Charli Main says
Even if this muslim POS is sent to prison, he will be treated like a king. His every wish will be pandered too—halal food, korans, washing facilities when he demands them to pray, TV, etc.
and every minute of every day this muslim goat turd will continue to plot the destruction of Britain and its non muslim population.
Kenny says
Alas your statement has much truth in it.
Actually, if anything you underestimate just how comfortable he will be in prison!
Sam says
Moslems are being discriminated again. Poor Moslems they have kill more now.
Wellington says
The deceit or stupidity, take your choice, resides in the first three words quoted above from the BBC, i.e., “Radical UK preacher.”
Chowderhead isn’t a radical by Islamic standards. No, by God, he isn’t. He’s mainstream Islam, which makes the enormously stupid term, “radical Islam,” a term that should be confined to the trash heap of history (as Islam in general should be) because it is due to abysmal and moronic redundancy.
The BBC either gets this or it doesn’t. If it does, then it is complicit. It if doesn’t, then it is foolish. Whether complicit or foolish, the BBC stands guilty (yet again). A la Lewis Carroll, off with its head.
Paladin says
A “proscribed organisation….”. Can’t even call it an *Islamic* jihadi terror group. PC, always and forever. God save the queen…
keithpittell says
… an islamic England? Well, there goes that “special relationship” we Yanks have had with the Brits for over a century, and there goes our most important ally as well… I’d sooner have Putin as my friend rather than Muslims…
duh_swami says
Does this mean he won’t be appearing on FOX Hannity for a while? Can he do a remote broadcast from his cell?
Waterloo says
It seems to me that many Muslims are refugees escaping war and terror in their own lands under the hammer and oppression of the Shariah. They travel to western Europe and the west generally to peaceful lands who have been happy to welcome them only to find that they do not integrate and eventually seek to establish the same oppressive regime they ran from. I can only say WAKE UP PEOPLE! As far as this Choudary character, he is brainwashed and is doing harm to many young people with his teachings of hate. Seems to me he is doing a lot more harm than “inviting support”…has he sworn an oath of citizenship to the U.K.?…what about treason!
gravenimage says
UK jihad preacher Anjem Choudary charged with “inviting support” for Islamic State
…………………….
Better late than never, I suppose…
JIMJFOX says
Idiot Mufti al-Cameron has realised that Choudary is the finest exposer of Islam, the ONLY truth-teller refuting the ‘progressive’ bullshit he [Cameron] spouts constantly.
Cameron has has his ‘light bulb moment’ and panicked into trying to silence him.
Too late, Davey- the Islamic cat is well and truly out of the bag. I would sign a
petition to keep Andy out of jail and on TV at every opportunity…
JIMJFOX says
“has has”
“has HAD”
D’Oh! Where’s the ‘edit’ button???
Isabella says
I have been waiting for a long time to see that headline. The next headline I am looking for to see is Anjem Choudary is kick out of UK. I keep my fingers crossed.
Brother James. says
Well it is a start.
Though it is years too late.
Choudray is a poisonous viper.
And a true enemy of the UK.
The British government must not backpedal on this one.
Choudray must be either booted out of the UK.
Or finally face trial for the many crimes of hate, that the government are well aware of.
I applaud the fact he has been charged.
But my worry is this will turn into a platform for the viper & his brothers of the death cult, to make a mockery and spit his vile teachings in the face of justice.