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March 15, 2006

UK: Three Islamist Cartoon Protesters Charged

Breaking news from Reuters states that three of the five people who were arrested earlier today in connection with the cartoon protests outside the Danish Embassy on February 3 have now been charged.

We reported earlier on the arrests, which appear to involve members of Al Ghurabaa, whose members share involvement with the Saviour Sect and the newly formed Islamist group Ahl ul-Sunnah Wa al-Jamma.

All of these three groups are comprised of a core membership of the same individuals who used to belong to the now disbanded group Al-Muhajiroun. The spiritual leader of this group, Omar Bakri Mohammed, fled to Lebanon where he remains in exile, barred from returning. Al-Muhajiroun is believed to have organised a suicide bombing at Mike's bar in Tel Aviv on April 30, 2003, which killed three people and injured sixty more.

We reported earlier today that Anjem Choudary was said by BBC TV News to be among those arrested. He is not mentioned by name among the three individuals named in a statement released by London police.

Police said that Uman Javed, aged 26, from Birmingham, was charged with soliciting murder and will appear in court tomorrow.

The other two named individuals, both from London, will appear in court on March 31st. Abdul Rahman Saleem, 31, was charged with "using words likely to stir up racial hatred". Omar Zaheer, 26, was charged under the Public Order Act.

The other two individuals who were arrested this morning, who both live in London, are said to be aged 23 and 39. They have been bailed to return to a London police station on April 19.

Anjem Choudary is said to be 38, according to the Sun newspaper, who reported that he had tried to leave for Britain to go to Lebanon after the Danish Embassy protests (at which he is pictured, above left). He had been deported from Lebanon in November last year. The Sun said he had left his wife Rubana and their three young children:

She told a friend: "We wanted him to stay but there's nothing I can do to stop him. He's thrown himself into leading this new Muslim group and doesn't live here any more. We will miss him but we'll be OK on housing benefit and income support."

Rubana gets around 1,000 pounds-a-month housing benefit, 360 pounds income support, 160 pounds child benefit and 192 pounds-a-week child tax credits.

Her husband claimed 202 pounds-a-month income support until last September.

The identity of the other individual who has to return to the London police on April 19 could be, and this is only a guess, 23 year old Abdul Muhid (pictured, right), who campaigns in Waltham Forest but lives officially in Stoke Newington. He is one of the main leaders of the Saviour Sect, and has fought with police on previous occasions. One of the five arrested today was said to have lived in Waltham Forest.

Muhid has campaigned at Walthamstow market for British soldiers to be killed in Iraq, and also shouted through a megaphone that gay people should be thrown from cliffs. He was taken to court but discharged on August 17. He was arrested on July 13 for violent disorder and assaulting a police officer in Chingford, north London. Charges again were dropped, for lack of evidence.

Members of Al Ghurabaa, The Saviour Sect and Ahl ul-Sunnah Wa al-Jamma are encouraged not to vote, and also many live off state benefits, even though they campaign to turn Britain into an Islamic state, under Sharia law.

Anjem Choudary has stated that in Lebanon, before his deportation, he was working with Omar Bakri Mohammed to create a madrassa in that country. When a Sun journalist tried to talk to him outside his rented flat in East London, he said: "You've made a big mistake coming here."

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at March 15, 2006 9:22 PM

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