Yet YouTube, and British authorities, crack down far harder on foes of jihad terror and Sharia oppression than they do against those who actually incite jihad violence.
“TWISTED BY HATE Sir David Amess murder suspect ‘radicalised after watching YouTube videos of hate preacher Anjem Choudary,’” by Isaac Crowson, Tom Wells, Nick Pisa, and Mike Sullivan, The Sun, October 18, 2021:
SUSPECTED MP killer Ali Harbi Ali was radicalised after watching YouTube videos of hate preacher Anjem Choudary, former friends claimed last night.
As a first photo of the alleged knifeman emerged, school pals said vile online material turned him from a popular pupil into an extremist.
Sir David Amess’ grief-stricken family said: “We are broken.”
One friend who witnessed his dramatic change told The Sun last night: “Choudary was someone he became utterly obsessed with.”
Despite Ali’s radicalisation, relatives claimed he had trained to become an NHS doctor after spending four years at a top medical school.
But investigators are confident that Ali, 25, was not directed by terror kingpins abroad.
He had been previously referred to the Government’s Prevent anti-terror scheme but investigators are still piecing together how and when he became radicalised.
It’s believed he was referred to the scheme as long ago as five years ago by a teacher who believed him to be an extremist risk.
Sources have said Ali did not say anything of note during the attack on Tory MP Sir David Amess but was seen using his mobile phone moments afterwards.
He was said to have sat down calmly to wait for cops and picked up his phone before his arrest.
It’s not known whether he used the phone to record any comments after the attack or to send a message to a third party.
But the actions, seen by witnesses in the room, are understood to be at the centre of why investigators labelled the attack a “terror incident,” The Telegraph reports.
Sources said Ali’s online contacts — and what material he viewed — were now “prime movers” in the investigation.
Last night a former pal told how Ali had been a popular pupil who loved playing football at their secondary school in Croydon, South London.
They said: “He had been a really lovely lad. A devoted Muslim and very popular. He enjoyed football and was very normal and we’d all go to the cinema.
“He’d socialise and everyone really liked him.”
However the friend said his personality then changed dramatically in the sixth form after being lured into extremism online.
The pal went on: “He watched a lot of extreme videos including those posted by Choudary and his followers. Everyone used to say to him, ‘But he’s a hate cleric and hates the West’ but he didn’t care. He became a huge fan.
“He admired Anjem, said he was right and his cause was right. It disgusted me. We were all very, very worried.
“He became totally radicalised through the internet and now he’s a suspect in something as evil as this. It’s horrendous.”
Convicted hate preacher Choudary — back on the streets after being released from jail — is considered one of the most influential and dangerous radicalisers in the UK….
maria says
He must be executed. He is a monster and his whole family should be deported
Doomer says
A good book to read is Ibn Warraq’s “The Islam in Islamic Terrorism:
The Importance of Beliefs, Ideas, and Ideology” ( 2017).
Ibn Warraq is an atheist,ex-Muslim,from Pakistan.
roberta says
Coulda been Obama’s son.
jim says
The left creates hatred of the West in peoples’ minds, and this makes a fertile ground for radical ideologies that offer an alternative to the self-hatred of the West. It is not just the Islamists alone, they would not have much effect if people were taught to be loyal to their own country. And its culture.
Michael Copeland says
Muslims are instructed to be loyal to their “country”, the world wide Ummah, the muslim community: “The muslim nation is one nation to the exclusion of all others” (placard).
They are taught to hate non-muslims, and regard them with contempt as the lowest of animals in Islam’s doctrine of Al Walaa Wal Baraa.
They are actively instructed NOT to integrate, NOT to make friends with the filthy luffa, and NOT to become Westernised.
They are subject to the communal obligation of jihad, warfare against the unbeliever, to make the whole world muslim.
Those “radical ideologies” of “Islamists” are ordinary basic Islam
wpm says
England will blame the victim the MP was David Amess he was a Catholic with 5 children of his own. The police would not let a priest near David Amess to give last rites even after Mr. Ali the jihadist was already in handcuffs and removed from the area. Mr Ali grew up in a wealthy family had a good education going to college to be a doctor (it was reported in the daily mail his family home is worth over 2 million pounds) his family well connected in the community ..Mr Ali caught the Jihad flu ,did he catch it in his Mosque ?,or from Islamic clubs he belong to? or some relatives? The authorities will get out the old rubber stamp stamping his file “mental illness” next to “lone wolf”. Nothing to see here lets move along. No need to dig too deep here might offend the Islamic community, never mind if it could stop or slow down the next jihadist assassination of an elected official. Got to keep people like Robert Spencer out of England his “ideas” are dangerous ,they make people think that Jihadist will kill elected officials for what they speech out about.
Lisa Letto says
Well said
Lisa Letto says
A smiling Moslum/killer is THE cautionary tale of the 21 Century. If England doesn’t get rid of Choudary now, it deserves to lose all it’s good citizens to emigration. Love to have them here
Cicero says
“ he was a very devout Muslim “. So his muredrous attack MP David Ames was totally in conformity with his beliefs as a devout Muslim.
Also after the attack he used his phone. Whom did he ring ? His “ traumatised “ family ? Or his Islamist handlers ?
How can the Police say then that it was not part of a wider terrorist network. Ali belonged to the Ummah – the biggest terrorist network there is
gravenimage says
UK: Muslim who murdered MP avidly watched YouTube videos of jihad preacher Anjem Choudary
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No surprise here…