COMMENT
Like Tommy Robinson, he is all about hate
Pictures: PHIL HARRIS
Heading off in car with woman in burka CHOUDARY’S early release sparked an outcry – with a lot of the anger coming from the Muslim community.
This big-mouthed nonentity became a stereotypical caricature of Islam, in the same vein as Abu Qatada and Abu Hamza.
He was never an Islamic preacher, just a preacher of hate. Not only did his followers carry out some of the JOURNALIST
most heinous crimes on British soil, they had another insidious effect.
Most reasonable people can see far-right extremist Tommy Robinson and Choudary are two sides of the same coin, hell-bent on causing division. But it is harder for reasonable Muslims to then convince wider society he doesn’t speak for us, that we despise him.
In fact, most us think instead of wasting £2million a year on security and ensuring he sticks by the terms of his release, it would be cheaper if we could buy him a one-way ticket to somewhere he would approve of.