Radical clerics found guilty of supporting IS had contact with teenager behind Anzac terror plot
Radical clerics found guilty of supporting IS had contact with teenager behind Anzac terror plot
Anjem Choudary, 49, and Mohammed Mizanur Rahman, 33, were found guilty of encouraging support for a terrorist organisation at the Old Bailey on July 28, with reporting restrictions on the convictions lifted on Tuesday.
"Choudary and Rahman are believed to have been recruiters and radicalisers for over 20 years," the Met police said in a statement.
They were closely associated with another terror group, Al Muhajiroun, the driving force behind those involved in the 7/7 London bombing and the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby. After the 'Islamic State' was proclaimed in 2014, Choudary and Rahman pledged allegiance to ISIS.
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One of the people influenced by Choudary and Rahman was a 14 year-old boy in Blackburn, UK, who had made contact with groups of Islamists via social media, from his smartphone in the bedroom of his family home, in late 2014 and early 2015.
"The void in his life… was filled by the extremist dogma of the ISIS propagandists," prosecutor James Pickup QC said in sentencing submissions during the boy's trial. "(The teenager) was targeted by older people, key recruiters, who were focusing on child recruitment and indoctrination."
Re 14 year old see -
Isis has not radicalised Muslims, it has infantilised them
Radical clerics found guilty of supporting IS had contact with teenager behind Anzac terror plot
Anjem Choudary, 49, and Mohammed Mizanur Rahman, 33, were found guilty of encouraging support for a terrorist organisation at the Old Bailey on July 28, with reporting restrictions on the convictions lifted on Tuesday.
"Choudary and Rahman are believed to have been recruiters and radicalisers for over 20 years," the Met police said in a statement.
They were closely associated with another terror group, Al Muhajiroun, the driving force behind those involved in the 7/7 London bombing and the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby. After the 'Islamic State' was proclaimed in 2014, Choudary and Rahman pledged allegiance to ISIS.
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One of the people influenced by Choudary and Rahman was a 14 year-old boy in Blackburn, UK, who had made contact with groups of Islamists via social media, from his smartphone in the bedroom of his family home, in late 2014 and early 2015.
"The void in his life… was filled by the extremist dogma of the ISIS propagandists," prosecutor James Pickup QC said in sentencing submissions during the boy's trial. "(The teenager) was targeted by older people, key recruiters, who were focusing on child recruitment and indoctrination."
Re 14 year old see -
Isis has not radicalised Muslims, it has infantilised them
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