Pure hatred UNVEILED
Wife of jailed hate preacher clearly identified for first time as she vows: non-Muslims in UK will be destroyed
THE wife of jailed hate preacher Anjem Choudary is today unveiled as an extremist herself, spouting vile diatribes supporting Islamic State and predicting ‘destruction’ for Britain’s non-Muslims.
Drawing parallels with a Koranic verse, Rubana Akhtar told a secret meeting: ‘Allah destroyed them all their houses, Allah completely ruined them… see their houses in utter ruin because of the evils they committed.’
She even gets a cheap laugh from her audience of impressionable young women and children as she mocks the plight of an IS victim who was burned alive.
Rubana, 41, was caught on camera without her face veil by an undercover reporter last year, but she can only now be identified as the mother of Choudary’s five children. She is being investigated by police while her husband faces up to ten years in jail after being found guilty of inviting support for IS.
Akhtar is the former leader of the women’s section of Choudary’s Islamist group al-Muhajiroun, whose aim is to make Britain an Islamic state. After it was banned 11 years ago, Akhtar simply took her lectures underground.
Last year, an undercover documentary reporter from Channel 4 Dispatches infiltrated her group – known as ‘the Sisterhood’ – and recorded a hate-filled rant. But today we reveal recordings that were not broadcast, revealing the true depth of her contempt for Britain’s values and people. In her most ominous passage, she draws a parallel with British non-Muslims and non-believers from a Koranic verse who were punished with the wrath of God.
Referring to the Muslim prophet Salih, she says: ‘He warned them, he said Allah is gonna punish them, they couldn’t care less.
‘It’s like the kuffar [non-Muslims], they couldn’t care less, they mock you… when it comes on you’ll be sorry… see how [this] was the end of their plot, because we destroyed them and their people altogether. See their houses in utter ruin because of the evils they committed.
‘This is what I want to talk about… you know you can imagine in the Houses of Parliament, in the secret room at Downing Street where they concoct these plans against the Muslims and they ring up Obama and have these meetings about what they’re going to do to… Allah destroyed them all their houses, Allah completely ruined them.’
In her most shocking outburst, Akhtar mocks the appalling plight of Jordanian Air Force pilot Moath Youssef al-Kasasbeh, captured by IS last year and burned alive in the most sickening video the barbaric jihadis have produced. Discussing the concept of shaheed, or martyrdom, she talks about the belief that ‘all of the Pakistani army die in service of their country and die in shaheed [martyrdom], they go to Jannah [paradise], and that’s the case with the Saudi army and same with Jordanian [sic], like the Jordanian pilot that was killed, be accepted in shaheed Inshallah [God willing]’. Then to callous laughter from her audience, she adds: ‘My foot.’ She portrays the butchers of IS as being unfairly demonised, and says: ‘So they’re going to make these people into the bogeyman, the terrorists or whatever David Cameron called them. I think he ran out of adjectives, he called them this death cult outfit… everything bad they want to apply to this group of so-called terrorists.’
Akhtar clearly has sympathy with the jihadis and places herself and her audience squarely on the same side, saying: ‘In a situation like this, when the whole world is coming against you in Syria and Iraq and here, it just seems like everything is going against the Muslims now in this country.’
She dismisses the Government’s Prevent anti-radicalisation strategy as the ‘Orwellian-type Big Brother state spying on Muslims’ and criticises the courts for taking into care the children of Britons trying to take their families to Syria.
She says: ‘May Allah release them and let them be with their parents.’
In a rallying cry to her followers, she vows: ‘Rule of Allah will spread all over this earth from the East to the West, from the West to the East.’
The Mail on Sunday tried to contact Akhtar last night through her husband’s solicitor, but did not receive a response.
Meanwhile, it emerged last night that Choudary was in contact with two members of a group that supported IS executioner Mohammed Emwazi, known as ‘Jihadi John’.
Choudary’s WhatsApp circle included members of the pressure group Cage and the brother of one of the killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby. Cage has blamed MI5 for turning Emwazi into the publicity-seeking serial killer who beheaded captives and released the bloody results on video.
A spokesman said last night: ‘These Cage members were never invited to a WhatsApp group by Anjem Choudary. The very nature of our advocacy work means that we come into contact with many individuals who at some stage come under the spotlight of the anti-terror laws – that’s inevitable. It must not lead to an assertion that we support the views of our clients or their contacts.
‘Mr Choudary may be a thoroughly disreputable figure for most, but the law allows us freedom to express distasteful opinions as it seeks to uphold the basic of all freedoms – the right to free expression.’
Contempt for British values and people