Oxford Union invites hate preacher
HATE preacher Anjem Choudary has been invited to speak at the Oxford Union despite being on police bail on suspicion of being a member of a banned terror group.
The notorious rabble rouser received his invitation from the debating society a day before Home Secretary Theresa May announced a crackdown on Islamic extremists.
The letter said it would be a ‘great privilege’ to have Choudary appear as star guest at the debate entitled: This house believes that radicalism is born at home.
Choudary, 47, who once said that Woolwich terror victim Fusilier Lee Rigby would ‘ burn in hellfire’, showed off his invitation after launching a hate-filled rant against Western society outside Parliament yesterday. He said: ‘I am still on police bail after being arrested by Scotland Yard in September last year. But the police can’t stop me from speaking. They can’t stop me from going to the Oxford Union where I’ve been invited to speak.’
Choudary, who founded radical Islamic group Al-Muhajiroun 20 years ago which was later banned, is seen as a recruiting sergeant for Britain’s radical Muslims.
He has been careful to keep his incendiary speeches on the right side of Britain’s hate law, but has warned that if he is jailed he will ‘radicalise everyone in prison’.
The Oxford Union invitation flies in the face of numerous stud- ies highlighting the problem of radicalisation at some universities. The Union, where the academic elite and their guests discuss key issues, declined to comment on the invitation.
Yesterday Choudary said David Cameron and Mrs May have committed more atrocities than members of Islamic State.
He also said he would be happy to travel to Syria if the police gave him back his passport. ‘I believe people should be allowed to travel where they want to and go to ISIS- controlled territory to live under sharia law,’ he said.
‘I would love to travel to Syria and take my wife and children with me, not to commit terrorism but to live under sharia law.’ He said sharia law would one day be enshrined in the British constitution.