How Choudary corrupted the minds of children as young as five
schoolgirl who fled to Syria to become an IS jihadi bride with two of her London school friends.
Mr Hussen has admitted taking his daughter Amira — at the impressionable age of 13 — to two equally unpalatable rallies where Choudary played a key role.
The Mail has discovered that Mrs Choudary’s friend Mrs X, now 33 and a mother of four, even took three of her children to an Islamic event attended by 17- year- old Brustholm Ziamani, a London teenager radicalised by Choudary in just 12 weeks after the two met at Camberwell Mosque.
Two years later, Ziamani — still in his teens — was found guilty of plotting to behead a soldier with a hammer and a knife.
The feckless teenager and former Christian had been brainwashed by Choudary at his secret headquarters in the basement of a halal sweet shop in London’s East End.
From this hideaway, owned by his friends, Choudary spread his vile ideology to tens of thousands of adults and children, through Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp and Twitter. On Twitter alone, he had 32,000 followers.
Incongruously, it was from the sweet shop that Choudary sent out internet invitations to his never- ending pavement protests and rallies.
AT OnE such gathering I went to — where (as a woman) I was put at the back of the hall with a group of his female attendees in burkas — I sat next to a girl who appeared no more than ten years old.
Wearing long dark robes, she had been brought by her veilcovered mother to the meeting in East London.
The little girl helped me to a curry during the break (telling me it might be too spicy for my palate). She later clapped with excitement as Choudary spoke of his plans to turn the UK into an Islamic utopia run under Sharia law.
The preacher’s favourite tenet at the time was: ‘The whole world one day will be under the Sharia, including Hackney and Walthamstow and Moscow and new York.
‘We have a very bright future, my dear Muslims.’ How the small girl, and other children in the audience, lapped up his words.
Just how seriously father- of-five Choudary et al took their task of polluting the minds of innocent youngsters became clear last year when counter- terrorism police raided an ‘illegal’ Islamic school in East London, which has since been closed by the Government.
The Siddeeq Academy in Tower Hamlets was run in a private house by Mizanur Rahman, a 33-year-old friend of Choudary, who stood alongside him in the Old Bailey dock in the recent trial, and was also found guilty of building support for IS in Britain.
RAHMAn was sentenced in 2007 to six years in prison for inciting murder and Islamic terrorism in demonstrations ( often attended by Choudary) outside the Danish Embassy in London.
At Mizanur Rahman’s unregistered school, children as young as five were taught an ‘inappropriate’ curriculum heavily loaded with Islamic scriptures in overcrowded corridors and hallways.
This, of course, is the ideal education in Anjem Choudary’s view. In one incendiary speech a few years ago, he opined: ‘next time your child is at school and the teacher asks: “What is your ambition?” they should say: “To dominate the whole world by Islam, including Britain, that is my ambition.” ’
Before Choudary was convicted unanimously by a jury last month (news for once he took silently with his arms crossed across his chest), he promised that if he was jailed he would ‘radicalise everyone in prison’.
It is some consolation that none of the inmates who cross his path will be impressionable children. They, at least, are now out of his cynical grasp.
Let us hope the Government do keep their promise to lock Choudary in a block with his own flock so he can never again endanger Britain’s security by twisting the minds of others.