Freed hate preacher Anjem Choudary said he’ll never stop supporting IS

Smiling Anjem Choudary goes for a Sunday stroll outside his bail hostel – with electronic ankle tag on show – as newly-unearthed tapes capture him saying he’ll never stop supporting ISIS

  • The 51-year-old Islamist said it was ‘duty of every Muslim’ to support ISIS
  • Choudary also said he would follow IS leader Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi, not UK law
  • Preacher released on Friday after serving two years in jail for inciting hatred 
  • He has been set 25 bail conditions, including not preaching or using the internet 
  • Choudary is set to argue in courts that the conditions breach his human rights

Anjem Choudary, seen returning to his hostel on Sunday morning, said it was ‘the duty of every Muslim’ to support IS in a new recording from 2016 that has now surfaced

Freed hate preacher Anjem Choudary revealed he would continue supporting jihadism and said it was ‘the duty of every Muslim to give their allegiance’ to IS, as detailed in a recording that has now surfaced.

The 51-year-old Islamist, who was released on Friday after serving two years for inciting others to support IS in videos posted to YouTube, made the revelations in 2014.

Speaking to a Sun on Sunday investigator before his conviction, Choudary, who was given five-and-a-half years in prison, but served less than half of his sentence, said:

‘As Muslims we have no choice but to support the Islamic State.

‘It is not a question of whether we chose to support IS or not — it is a matter of Islamic responsibility and duty for every Muslim to give their allegiance to the caliph and obey him if he orders them to do something.’ 

The audio also revealed that Choudary – who is  expected to launch a ‘human rights’ legal battle against the 25 conditions of his release – would disregard British law and only follow instead his caliph, IS leader Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi. 


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Choudary was spotted smiling this morning, his electronic tag visible around his right ankle, as he stepped out of a bail hostel in north London.

He is set to receive free unsold food from the likes of Pret a Manger and Tesco at the hostel – which backs on to a £15,000-a-year private school – as police monitor him in a security operation set to cost £2million annually. 


Choudary smiled as he strolled along the street – with his electronic tag on show – on Sunday

It is thought Choudary has been set the strictest conditions ever imposed on a released prisoner in the UK. 

The notorious Islamist cleric was swept out of Belmarsh Prison in south-east London in a blacked-out people carrier followed by a convoy of unmarked cars carrying police and MI5.

Choudary, branded Britain’s most dangerous extremist, still has his long beard and wore blue Adidas trainers and a long white robe. 

Choudary was spotted on Friday, shortly after his release, at his bail hostel in north London

As part of his release,  Choudary must submit to 25 licence conditions drawn up by the security services, police, probation service and the Ministry of Justice.

These include being forced to live in an approved hostel, electronic tagging, a night-time curfew, only being allowed to attend pre-approved mosques, no use of the internet without prior permission, not being allowed to speak to the media and a ban from preaching. 

Legal battle: Choudary is expected to appeal against his 25 bail conditions on the grounds that they breach his human rights, and has secured a legal team from Birnberg Peirce

Yesterday it was reported that Choudary is expected to apply for legal aid before launching a court battle against the conditions of his release, because they ‘breach his human rights’. 

Choudary and a legal team from Birnberg Peirce are set to argue that the conditions breach his human rights, because the licensing conditions are disproportionate to the crime for which he was convicted. 

His co-defendant and close friend Mizanur Rahman, 34, is also preparing for his release from the same sentence.

Convicted in 2016 for inciting hate, Choudary founded a breeding ground for the Islamic extremism which plagued Britain over the last two decades.

Choudary was convicted in 2016 of encouraging support for IS and backing jihadism

Former law-student Choudary, who previously called for adulterers to be stoned to death and branded UK troops ‘cowards’, always hid behind free speech rules whenever challenged by the authorities.

But the group he helped to set up were linked to a series of terrorist attacks, as easily-influenced young men became inspired by his twisted vision of jihad.

The best known of his disciples was Muslim convert Michael Adebolajo, who, along with Michael Adebowale, attacked Fusilier Lee Rigby with a meat cleaver in Woolwich in 2013 in a murder which shocked the country.

Adebolajo was a supporter of Choudary’s al-Muhajiroun group and was pictured standing behind the hate preacher in 2007.

After the incident, Choudary said Adebolajo was ‘a practising Muslim and a family man’ who he was ‘proud of’.

But he denied encouraging the killer to carry out the attack, insisting he was ‘channeling the energy of the youth through demonstrations and processions’.

Hate preacher’s 25 bail conditions

Choudary will face 25 licence conditions. Any breach could result in a return to custody. They have been drawn up by the security services, police, probation service and the Ministry of Justice, they include:

÷ Being forced to live in an approved hostel

÷ Electronic tagging

÷ A night-time curfew

÷ Keeping in contact with his supervising probation officer

÷ Handing over his passport

÷ A ban on travelling outside the M25

÷ Only being allowed to attend pre-approved mosques

÷ Only being allowed one mobile phone, which he must hand over to the authorities for checking on request

÷ A ban on contacting individuals who he knows or believes to have been charged with or convicted of extremist-related offences without prior approval

÷ No use of the internet unless with prior permission

÷ No unsupervised contact with children

÷ Not being allowed to speak to the media

÷ A ban from preaching

÷ Not being allowed to convene meetings 

London Bridge attacker Khuram Butt also joined one of Choudary’s rallies, this time on College Green outside the Palace of Westminster in 2013.

There, Butt ‘verbally assaulted’ a moderate Muslim leader who had opposed Choudary’s extremist rhetoric.

Meanwhile, Mohammed Reza Haque, thought of as Choudary’s bodyguard, disappeared from Britain in 2014.

A photograph taken in Syria showed him in a balaclava and camouflage clothing, brandishing an AK-47 assault rifle and he has since been suspected as being a tall figure in ISIS’s horrific execution films.

Anjem Choudary was at the centre of a web of extremists who operated in London

Siddhartha Dhar, who once ran Choudary’s media operation, was also seen posing in a military style coat and boots, brandishing an assault rifle and holding his new born baby in Syria, labelling the picture ‘Generation Khilafah’.

In December 2014, two other close associates were discovered in the back of a lorry at Dover as they tried to leave the country.

Westminster attacker Khalid Masood was also linked to Choudary through Ibrahim Anderson, an al-Muhajiroun activist convicted of inviting support for ISIS in 2016.

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