Anjem Choudary Sentenced to 5.5 Years for ISIS Recruitment Plot

Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
September 7, 2016

And people wonder why they say Britain is a racist country.

A British man can be sentenced to prison simply because of the color of his skin.

CNN:

Notorious hate preacher Anjem Choudary, who led a flag-burning demonstration outside the US embassy on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and voiced support for jihad, has been jailed for inviting support for ISIS.

The former lawyer was sentenced to five years and six months in prison. His supporters shouted “Allahu Akhbar” as he was led away from the dock in London’s Old Bailey court.

Choudary’s co-defendant Mohammad Mizanur Rahman, 33, was also handed a sentence of five years and six months.

Choudary has courted controversy over two decades, skirting the edges of the law, backing extremism but with no proof of actually inciting violence. He earned the wrath of Britain’s tabloid newspapers, making him – by his own admission — the country’s “most hated man.”

In 2014, he pledged allegiance to ISIS and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, bringing him under scrutiny and leading to his arrest.

“Both men were fully aware that Daesh is a proscribed terrorist group responsible for brutal activities and that what they themselves were doing was illegal,” said Sue Hemming, head of counter terrorism at the Crown Prosecution Service, using an alternative name for ISIS.

“Those who invite others to support such organizations will be prosecuted and jailed for their crimes,” Hemming added.

British authorities say they were able to link Choudary to the battlefields of Iraq and Syria; UK police say they don’t know exactly how many of the 850 Britons who have traveled there were directly influenced by him, but they say he is a “key” figure in ISIS’s recruitment drive.

“These men have stayed just within the law for many years,” Commander Dean Haydon, of the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command, said when he was convicted.

“But there is no one within the counter terrorism world that has any doubts of the influence that they have had, the hate they have spread and the people that they have encouraged to join terrorist organizations.”

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