[After the 7 July 2005 London bombings] Al-Qaida are not targeting people arbitrarily. There are specific targets [...] The time for talking is over.… - Anjem Choudary

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[After the 7 July 2005 London bombings] Al-Qaida are not targeting people arbitrarily. There are specific targets [...] The time for talking is over. You can't sit down and negotiate while you are murdering Muslims in Iraq.

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About Anjem Choudary

Anjem Choudary (Urdu: انجم چودهرى‎; born 18 January 1967) is a British Islamist and a social and political activist convicted under the Terrorism Act 2000 of inviting support for a proscribed organisation, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), and convicted in 2016. He was subsequently subject to sanctions by both the U.S. State Department and the U.N. Security Council freezing his assets. In July 2024, Choudary was sentenced to life imprisonment for directing al-Muhajiroun, a banned terrorist organisation.

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[On the men responsible for the September 11 attacks] Those individuals are Muslims, they were carrying out their Islamic responsibility and duty, so in that respect they were magnificent, and the Muslims worldwide hope that they are accepted as martyrs in the eyes of God.

[On Choudary's membership of the internationally proscribed Islamist group Al Muhajiroun (The Emigrants)] Choudary ... is the group's former leader. He frequently appears on cable news, as one of the few people producers can book who will defend the Islamic State vociferously, until his mike is cut. He has a reputation in the United Kingdom as a loathsome blowhard, but he and his disciples sincerely believe in the Islamic State and, on matters of doctrine, speak in its voice. Choudary and the others feature prominently in the Twitter feeds of Islamic State residents...

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Choudary took pains to presnt the laws of war under which the Islamic State operates as policies of mercy rather than of brutality. He told me the state has an obligation to terrorize its enemies—a holy order to scare the shit out of them with beheadings and crucifixions and enslavement of women and children, because doing so hastens victory and avoids prolonged conflict.

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