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Telegraph
December 22, 2013
The BBC used licence payers’ money to ferry hate preacher Anjem Choudary to its studios where he was allowed to spout his “poisonous narrative” over the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby, it can be revealed.
The founder of the banned extremist group, Al-Muhajiroun, was given 12 minutes of airtime yesterday morning on Radio 4’s flagship Today Programme, during which he again refused to condemn the savage killing in Woolwich, south London.
Prime Minister David Cameron denounced Mr Choudary’s views as “absolutely despicable and appalling” and said he represented a “minority of a minority”.
But despite widespread condemnation of his views, the BBC insisted it had been correct to allow the extremist a platform on one of its most iconic programmes.
And it has now emerged that the Corporation even provided transport to collect Mr Choudary from his home and deliver him to the central London studio from where Today is broadcast.
A spokesman refused to say whether Mr Choudary would have received any payment for his appearance, but sources said it was policy to provide transport for guests on news programmes.
The interview was conducted by presenter John Humphrys, but Mr Choudary repeatedly ignored calls to express his condemnation over the terrorist murder, and used the time instead to attack British and American foreign policy in the Middle East.
At one point he said he did not believe in democracy, but insisted he had every right to stay in Britain because it was where he had been born and brought up.
Mr Cameron, speaking at the end of an EU summit in Brussels, said: “This is an absolutely classic case of that poisonous narrative of extremism and violence. We must defeat it by demonstrating what a minority view it is.”
Asked about whether Mr Choudary should have been interviewed on the Today programme, he said that was a matter for the BBC.
