Hate cleric speaks from jail
Quit UK, nut tells Muslims after his 8yr fight to stay
HATE preacher Anjem Choudary blamed the French for terror attacks against their nation.
The cocky radical also boasted he was sure to escape a prison sentence because he had not done “anything illegal”.
And he mocked the case against him, claiming police were “just chancing their arm”.
But last month, Choudary, 49, was convicted of inviting support for Isis in a series of radical online lectures.
The preacher is currently being held in Belmarsh high-security prison in south east London awaiting sentence on September 6.
In an exclusive interview with the Daily Star Sunday before the end of his Old Bailey trial, the father-of-five:
Suggested a series of recent terror attacks in France were a result of the country “provoking” Muslims.
Bragged that he would be found innocent of “inviting support for a proscribed organisation” under the Terrorism Act 2000.
Predicted he would be free within days.
Speaking just days after Father Jacques Hamel was murdered by a pair of Isis knifemen during mass EXCLUSIVE PATRICK WILLIAMS in his Normandy church, Choudray blamed France for meddling in Middle Eastern and North African affairs and introducing laws to control Muslims.
He said: “The French public need to take stock of what has happened in North Africa.
“Their forces in Mali, involvement in Morocco and Algeria, Libya, and the forces in Syria and Iraq.
“Domestically as well. Their laws in relation to the niqab, their cartoons, Charlie Hebdo, if you take all of that together you start to understand the kind of feeling Muslims might have towards the French and their own state and its policies.
“Nobody is saying this is an excuse to carry out an attack against a priest in Normandy, drive a truck down a highway in Nice, but those people that want to target them will obviously find that they (the French) are at the top of the list of perceived enemies for Muslims. If you want to come out their of this quagmire and cycle of violence then you really need to start addressing these issues. “They (the French) are blind to what might have provoked people.” The London-born Islamist also predicted he would soon be freed, boasting: “I’m pretty much going to continue as I did before with a gap. “All the things we were calling for…there’s no reason to stop as we weren’t doing anything illegal. “The police are just chancing their arm by making this a freedom of speech issue.” Choudary, a former Southampton University student who indulged in casual sex, used porn and tried LSD and cannabis – all strictly prohibited under Islam – was found guilty alongside his co-accused, Mizanur Rahman, 33. He faces up to ten years in prison. During their trial the jury heard Choudary, inset, had sworn an oath of allegiance to Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an east London pub after “Muslim rule” was declared in the Middle East. The court heard they then urged Muslims to “make hijrah”, meaning to travel to Isis-occupied lands. EXTREMIST Abu Qatada, who fought deportation from Britain for eight years, now wants Muslims to flee the UK for the Islamic world.
The fanatic, eventually extradited to Jordan in 2013, is warning followers of Islam they face “bloodshed” in the West.
Counter-extremism experts say Qatada’s Twitter rants are an attempt to stir up trouble between Muslims and Christians in Britain.
Posting messages in Arabic using the handle @sheikhabuqatadh, the fundamentalist warned his 58,000 followers: “Muslims living in the west will lose. Sedition and spread of bloodshed will devour them. “They will have no option but to prepare to return back to their countries as soon as possible.”
Anti-extremist group the Quilliam Foundation says Qatada is trying to promote a “clash of civilisations narrative”.
Head of policy Jonathan Russell said: “Abu Qatada is reinforcing the extremist idea that you cannot be a good Muslim in a non-Muslim country.
“This makes it easier for jihadists to recruit Muslims in the West. “The irony is that Abu Qatada spent all those years fighting to stay in the UK.”
HYPOCRITE: Fanatic Abu Qatada In September 2014, the hate cleric was released from prison in Jordan after being found innocent of terrorism offences.
Judges said there was “insufficient evidence” to convict him of planning a thwarted terrorist plot against tourists and diplomats during Jordan’s Millennium celebrations. But following his deportation from Britain, the Home Office confirmed Qatada was “not coming back to the UK” as the courts agreed he was a threat to security.