The Daily Mail, as relentlessly clueless as ever, characterizes Choudary below as some kind of nutter with crazy ideas about Sharia. However, no one has ever produced, or ever could produce, a version of Sharia that is different from the one Choudary wants the Taliban to implement. While the Western intelligentsia insists that Sharia is completely benign and compatible with Western secularism, the reality is that “stoning adulterers, chopping off the hands of thieves and lashing anyone caught drinking alcohol” is taught by all the various schools of Islamic jurisprudence. These things aren’t “extremist”; they’re mainstream. But of course, the “counterterror” establishment in the West only considers opponents of jihad violence and Sharia oppression to be “extremist.”
“Anjem Choudary urges Taliban to be MORE hard line: Fanatical hate preacher tells jihadists to chop off thieves’ hands, stone adulterers and flog drinkers,” by Abul Taher and Ian Gallagher, Mail On Sunday, August 21, 2021:
Britain’s most fanatical hate preacher is urging the Taliban to impose a stricter form of Islamic justice – including stoning adulterers, chopping off the hands of thieves and lashing anyone caught drinking alcohol.
Anjem Choudary, 54, who inspired a generation of jihadi fighters and dozens of terrorist murders, also wants to ban music and mixing between sexes, and says non-Muslims should pay an ‘infidel tax’.
His outpourings are included in an extraordinary 3,500-word treatise entitled Sincere Advice To The Leadership Of The Taliban.
In it, the firebrand cleric, from Ilford, East London, calls on Afghanistan’s new government – which has tried to project a more moderate image – to expunge all traces of Western culture and ban ‘useless pursuits such as music, drama and philosophy’.
Choudary, jailed five years ago for supporting the Islamic State terror group, was banned from speaking in public following his release. But the order was lifted last month, leaving him free to spread his hate.
Expressing his opinions on the encrypted social media network Telegram, Choudary appeared to suggest British and American forces were legitimate targets, urging Taliban fighters to point their guns at ‘occupying forces’ and anyone who ‘stands in the way of implementing the rule of Allah’….
Some of his pronouncements are comically provocative. Once he promised that ‘a flag of sharia’ would fly over Downing Street, said Buckingham Palace should be renamed Buckingham Masjid, the Arabic word for mosque, and he accused the Queen of not washing properly and having only ‘two baths a year’. But while it is easy to cast Choudary as a cartoonish, ludicrous figure, he is manifestly dangerous – a ‘deeply pernicious, destabilising influence’ in the words of one former Minister.
He inspired some of the country’s most infamous Islamist killers, including Khuram Butt, leader of the London Bridge attacks, and the men who killed Fusilier Lee Rigby in Woolwich in 2013.
Justice finally caught up with Choudary in 2016 when he was jailed for five and a half years for supporting the Islamic State terror group. To the frustration of those who understand the threat he represents, he was freed on licence after serving half his sentence.
And with world leaders beseeching the Taliban not to isolate Afghanistan, Choudary advises closing down the country’s embassies abroad, even in Muslim countries, and expelling the United Nations from Kabul.
Any non-Muslims living in Afghanistan, he says, must pay a tax known as ‘jizya’, often referred to as the ‘infidel tax’. This toll ensures they receive protection.
Choudary says the Taliban must enforce strict sharia law, and run only sharia courts, getting rid of existing bodies such as high courts and supreme courts.
Only strict sharia punishments – including chopping off thieves’ hands and stoning adulterers – must be implemented.
He said: ‘The penal code or Hudood is the right of Allah… to cut the hand off the thief, stone the adulterer, implementing capital punishment upon the apostate and lashing those who drink alcohol (all after due court process and evidence) must be implemented without question and hesitation.’
According to Choudary, the level of strictness employed by the Taliban to implement sharia law will determine whether it is ‘truly Islamic’. He said: ‘Muslims around the world must… assess whether this fledgling state is really implementing Islamic law or whether it is just another country choosing Islam to be part of its name that it wishes everyone to call it by.’
Choudary is urging the Taliban to change the name of Afghanistan to Islamic State, which is what IS called its territory once it declared a caliphate. He said: ‘There should be the removal of all borders and an invitation to all Muslims to become citizens of the new Islamic State with the aim to unite the Muslim land of the Indian sub-continent to begin with, to be the precursor of greater unity under the Khilafah [caliphate].’
When Choudary was asked by the MoS if he himself would go to Afghanistan, he said he was unable to because he was on a UN terrorism watchlist and was banned from travelling.
But he said other Muslims could travel to the country, adding: ‘As a Muslim, we believe in Islam and the sharia, so it is a natural thing to live there. Why do Jews gravitate towards Israel?’
mortimer says
Choudary is not a ‘nutter’, but a calm proponent of authentic, canonical Islam. Journalists who think otherwise, have done no homework on the primary source texts of Islam or its CANONICAL CODIFICATIONS of Islamic law in the APPROVED MANUALS of Sharia law.
‘Journalism’ like that in The Daily Mail is shockingly inept and misleading. Choudary is the voice of canonical Islam … Choudary is, in fact, one of the most authentic voices of Islam.
gravenimage says
Yes–this is how pious Muslims think.
Elizabeth Lawson says
We cannot send this primitive anomaly back to the 14th century, however much we would like to, but we can prosecute him for teaching and advocating hatred and violence. Whatever else this ghastly ideology has to say for itself, it IS pervasive, and it appears to appeal strongly to the mentally deranged – who like mad dogs should be removed from the public streets for the protection of the public.
Emilie Green says
Choudary’s lost weight, but not the hate.
Shirley Ann says
Choudary, the Darling of the WOKE BRIT ELITE, does not have to worry about the NEW Government in Afghanistan, because SHARIA is on the March, with DEATH & TORTURE AS THEIR “CALLING CARD.”
Shame on the “WOKE DEMOCRAT RULING PARTY IN AMERICA” for Importing thousands of Afghani UNVETTED MUSLIMS into the face of the American People. Our Military Has Opened Posts & Bases to receive this MOB & everyone of them a FIRE-Breathing Sharia Advocate.
Planes, with no Americans Aboard, but plenty of Muslims aboard, had no trouble leaving Kabul.
MY VIEW!
Richard R. says
Is Robert Spencer’s debate with Choudary and other violent Muslims available anywhere online? Youtube seems to have removed them. Robert Spencer confronts these Muslims with the truth any yet Mr Spencer is painted as the zealot. How??
Oxford1000 says
https://youtu.be/LQNipWFfvHA
Oxford1000 says
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2pqmi3
DavidR says
The U.K. is in a dependent/codependent relationship with devout Muslims. It’s very one sided and allows for some tragic compromises made on the unwitting behalf of the parents of thousands of school girls.
And the Choudary thing gets to stir the pot again so he can use freedom of speech to call for Shariah style censorship.
Infidel says
What jiziya will they collect? All Jews are gone, all but one Hindu is leaving, all Sikhs are leaving, all Christians are leaving. They’ll have to look for Ahmadiyas and Hazaras to collect jiziya
CogitoErgoSum says
The ransom they can they can collect for thousands of American citizens will help offset any revenue lost due to inability to collect the Jizya. The Taliban could drag things out for years asking U.S. officials just how much a U.S. citizen is worth. Maybe some are worth more. Maybe some are worth less. Maybe some would make nice sex slaves, maybe some will just be killed for revenge. Who knows what price will be paid and who will be released and who will not.
gravenimage says
Likely so.
OLD GUY says
What a wonderful preacher man! Islam and sharia are so full of love and human kindness. We need to send this guy a bunch of foreign aid to support his preaching of love and peace. We seem to be about that nuts.
Can’t come up with any logical reason to want these islamic migrants in America.
gravenimage says
UK jihad preacher Anjem Choudary calls on Taliban to enforce Sharia fully, collecting jizya and amputating hands
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Insanity–surely this is incitement of violence.