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Extremism

Islamic extremism or Islamist extremism, is used in reference to extremist beliefs and behaviors which are associated with the Islamic religion. The government of the United Kingdom, defines Islamic extremism as any form of Islam that opposes "democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs".

In 2020 Ninety per cent' of 43,000 extremists on MI5 watchlist were Islamist terror suspects, with previous number of suspects having risen from 20,000. Home Secretary Priti Patel issued new vow to increase deportations after experts warned police are 'obsessed' with catching far-right extremists.

It is a ridiculously high number. The bigger question is why are there 40,000 people who think it is acceptable to consider murdering people. It tells you the scale of the problem. Nine-tenths of the people on that list are Islamist extremists.

New separate statistics from the Home Office on terrorists in custody, also show that of 238 people held for terrorism in Great Britain, 183 were Islamist extremists while just 44 were far-right. It is an increase of just 11 people from the same period last year. They include a 17-year-old schoolboy jailed in January after a manifesto listing 'Areas to Attack' was found in his room.

The headline split of our counter terrorist work remains roughly 75% Islamist extremist, 25% extreme right-wing terrorism.

The numbers came a day after senior military and intelligence expert Colonel Richard Kemp told the MailOnline he believed the focus on far-right terror was a 'false emphasis'. Funding for counter-terrorism policing is also set to increase to £906 million for year 2021 - a rise of £90 million.

Talib Al-Abdulmohsen

Al-Abdulmohsen had fled to Germany (after being accused of rape and implicated in serious crimes) as a Saudi Arabian refugee in 2006 and gained official refugee status in 2016. The 50-year-old left his home country due to its Islamic government and settled in Bernburg, roughly 28 miles southeast of Magdeburg. He has worked in the German city as a doctor and psychotherapist since receiving his permanent status. Saudi Arabia had warned German authorities about the attacker after he posted extremist views on his personal X account that threatened peace and security. Al-Abdulmohsen’s attack began at around 7:04 p.m. when he drove the car between the gap of two safety bollards and raced down one of the lanes of the packed Christmas market.

Surveillance footage of the attack captured the car speeding through the alley, leaving behind a trail of devastation as injured victims laid on the ground with others panicking and running off as others stayed behind and tended to the hurt. An adult and toddler were among the known killed, but officials couldn’t rule out the possibility of more deaths. Forty-one people were critically injured, 86 were receiving hospital treatment for serious injuries and another 78 sustained minor injuries. One woman, identified only as 32-year-old Nadine, was arm in arm with her boyfriend when the deadly attack happened, sweeping her partner away from her.

Al-Abdulmohsen declared himself an athiest and an ex-Muslim after arriving in Germany securing full asylum protection in Germany by portraying himself as a victim of persecution rather than a fugitive from justice. s of visitors each winter. Abdulmohsen began working in a government hospital in Germany as a psychiatrist. Shockingly, while holding this position, he is publicly active in criminal activities, including Human trafficking, smuggling young girls and encouraging girls and minors from Saudi Arabia and Gulf countries to flee to Germany. In 2023-2024: Abdulmohsen makes explicit threats against Germany, which authorities dismiss as "freedom of expression.".

He was active on social media, repeatedly tweeting and posting voice recordings where he made explicit threats against Germany. He openly considered the German government his enemy, claiming that Germany was conspiring against him and against all Saudi asylum seekers. These posts were publicly accessible and alarming, yet German authorities failed to respond or investigate further. These paranoid claims and repeated threats were clear indicators of a dangerous mindset, yet they were ignored by authorities. Despite being warned by many X users who tagged the German police, in case they were not doing their job.

In 2023, a Saudi girl reported Abdulmohsen's terror threats to the German police via their official X account @BAMF_Dialog and through their official email. She sent multiple messages, warning that Abdulmohsen repeatedly and publicly threatened to ((run over Germans)) and kill them through his social media accounts.

Despite these clear and repeated warnings, the Berlin police and German authorities ignored her messages and failed to act. A Saudi source to @Reuters "We previously warned the German authorities about the attacker in Magdeburg, The perpetrator of the ramming attack in Germany, Taleb Abdulmohsen, holds extremist ideologies."

Axel Rudakubana

An 18-year-old accused of murdering three young schoolgirls in Southport, and attempting to murder 10 other people, has now also been charged with attempting to make a biological weapon using the deadly toxin Ricin. In addition, Axel Rudakubana is also facing a second new charge under the Terrorism Act, of possessing an Al Qaeda terror manual.

The dramatic announcement came from Merseyside police, after three months in which authorities indicated they had found no link to terrorism following the 29 July attack. At a news conference at Merseyside police headquarters, Chief Constable Serena Kennedy told reporters that new evidence was discovered by officers searching Rudakubana's home in the aftermath of the attack.

Chief Constable Kennedy said a substance was discovered and sent for analysis at the Government's Defence, Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down in Wiltshire. That analysis confirmed the substance as the deadly poison Ricin. Authorities say that Ricin was not used in the Southport attack, and no traces of the toxin were found at the Hart Space venue where the attack took place.

Rudakubana is already facing three counts of murder, 10 counts of attempted murder, and a charge of possessing a bladed article. Merseyside Police have cautioned people against speculating over the Taylor Swift-themed dance class, in which Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, were killed. According to police, for the attack to be classed as terrorism motivation would need to be established. No ricin was found to have been present at the scene of the stabbing.

After the mass stabbing riots were fuelled by so called "false claims" circulated by British Nationalists that the perpetrator of the attack was a Muslim (Rudakubana is a Muslim) and an asylum seeker (Rudakubana parents are foreign born). At least 200 people had been sentenced with 177 imprisoned, to an average sentence of around two years and up to a nine-years. As of 1st of September 1,280 arrests and nearly 800 charges had been made in relation to the unrest. The mass media had originally described Rudakubana as a "Welsh Christian".

Reading stabbings

On 20 June 2020, shortly before 19:00 BST, a man with a knife attacked people who were socializing in Forbury Gardens, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom. Three men died from their wounds, and three other people were seriously injured. A 25-year-old Libyan male refugee named Khairi Saadallah was arrested nearby shortly afterwards. Saadallah was a former member of the Libyan militant group Ansar al-Sharia. He was charged with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder; he pleaded guilty. In January 2021, Saadallah was sentenced to a whole-life term.

Saadallah was convicted six times for 15 crimes between 2015 and 2019, of which eight were violent crimes, two involved possession of a knife and two involved racially or religiously aggravated harassment. A security source told Reuters that the suspect had come to the attention of Britain's domestic security agency MI5 in 2019 over intelligence that he aspired to travel for extremist purposes, and he had been investigated over jihadist concerns. Saadallah yelled "Allahu Akbar" during the attack, and a Muslim bystander heard him say "God accept my jihad" in Arabic. After his arrest, Saadallah told police that "[he] was going to paradise for the jihad what [he] did to the victims".

London Bridge attack

On 3 June 2017, a terrorist vehicle-ramming and stabbing took place in London, England. A van was deliberately driven into pedestrians on London Bridge, and then crashed on Borough High Street, just south of the River Thames. The van's three occupants then ran to the nearby Borough Market area and began stabbing people in and around restaurants and pubs.

The attacks were shot dead by Metropolitan Police and City of London Police authorised firearms officers, and were found to be wearing fake explosive vests. Eight people were killed and 48 were injured, including members of the public and four unarmed police officers who attempted to stop the assailants. British authorities described the perpetrators as "radical Islamic terrorists". Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attack.

Khuram Shahzad Bhat

Khuram Shahzad Bhat, a 27-year-old Pakistan-born British national, who was shot dead by police after the London attack, was a brainwashed follower of a banned extremist group and known to intelligence agencies. Khuram Shahzad Butt, one of the three attackers was a member of the al-Muhajiroun extremist group with links to the jailed preacher Anjem Choudary. Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner Mark Rowley said an investigation into Butt began in 2015, but "there was no intelligence to suggest that this attack was being planned and the investigation had been prioritised accordingly".

The two other perpetrators were not known to security services. Police today identified the third attacker as Youssef Zaghba, a 22-year-old Italian of Moroccan descent, a day after naming his accomplices as Butt and Rachid Redouane, 30, a self-described Moroccan-Libyan dual national. Butt had appeared in a Channel 4 documentary, The Jihadis Next Door, and had been reported to the anti-terrorism hotline for extremism. Butt, who lived in Barking in east London, appeared several times in a 2016 Channel 4 documentary called "The Jihadis Next Door," which profiled a group of individuals linked to al-Muhajiroun in the United Kingdom.

Al-Muhajiroun has been linked to half of all terror plots by British nationals in the United Kingdom and overseas over the last two decades, according to research published in 2015 by Raffaello Pantucci, a terrorism analyst at the Royal United Services Institute. Several followers of the group joined ISIS in Syria including Abu Rumaysah and Abu Rahin Aziz, a Luton, England, resident killed in a US drone strike in Raqqa, Syria, in July 2015. Al-Muhajiroun's longtime UK leader Anjem Choudary was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison in 2016 for calling on Muslims in the United Kingdom to support ISIS.

Manchester Arena bombing

On 22 May 2017, an Islamist extremist suicide bomber detonated a shrapnel-laden homemade bomb as people were leaving the Manchester Arena following a concert by American pop singer Ariana Grande. Twenty-three people were killed, including the attacker, and 1,017 were injured, many of them children. Several hundred more suffered psychological trauma. The bomber was Salman Ramadan Abedi, a 22-year-old local man of Libyan ancestry.

The Islamic State claimed responsibility shortly after the attack. In March 2020, the bomber's brother, Hashem Abedi, was found guilty of 22 counts of murder and attempting to murder 1,017 others, and was sentenced to life in prison. The incident was the deadliest terrorist attack and the first suicide bombing in the United Kingdom since the 7 July 2005 London bombings.

The suicide bomber's father was a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, a Salafi jihadist organisation proscribed by the United Nations, and father and son fought for the group in Libya in 2011 as part of the movement to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi.

The suicide bomber detonated an improvised explosive device, packed with nuts and bolts to act as shrapnel, in the foyer area of the Manchester Arena. According to evidence presented at the coroner's inquest, the bomb was strong enough to kill people up to 20 metres (66 ft) away. On 23 May, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, via the Nashir Telegram channel, said the attack was carried out by "a soldier of the Khilafah".

Jameah Islameah School

Jameah Islameah School was an independent Islamic school in East Sussex. The school was located on a 54 acre site and had residential facilities to house male students aged 11 to 16. The school was independently owned and the proprietor functioned as the principal. According to testimony from Al Qaeda suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, in 1997 and 1998, Abu Hamza and groups of around 30 of his followers held terrorist training camps at the school, including training with AK47 rifles and handguns, as well as a mock rocket launcher.

In 2003 or 2004, the grounds of the school were used for an Islamic-themed camping trip, at which Omar Bakri Mohammed lectured. The trip, which was advertised by word-of-mouth, was attended by 50 Muslim men, most of whom were members of al-Muhajiroun. On 1 September 2006 the Jameah Islameah school was searched by up to a hundred police officers as part of their operations, although no arrests were made. The local Sussex Police held a cordon around the site for 24 days in an operation that cost them over one million pounds.

Radicalisation

Radicalisation is the process by which an individual or a group comes to adopt increasingly radical views in opposition to a political, social, or religious status quo. Radicalisation can result in both violent and non-violent action – academic literature focuses on radicalisation into violent extremism (RVE) or radicalisation leading to acts of terrorism. Since May 2010, 84 hate preachers have been excluded from Britain – a number that signifies a growing trend.

Abu Hamza

Abu Hamza, is an Egyptian cleric who was the imam of Finsbury Park Mosque in London, England, where he preached Islamic fundamentalist views. In 2004, Hamza was arrested by British police after the United States requested he be extradited to face charges. He was later charged by British authorities with sixteen offences for inciting violence and racial hatred.

On 5 October 2012, after an eight-year legal battle, he was extradited from the UK to the United States to face terrorism charges and on 14 April 2014 his trial began in New York. On 19 May 2014, Hamza was found guilty of eleven terrorism charges by a jury in Manhattan. On 9 January 2015, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. In 1979, Hamza entered Britain on a student visa. His initial reaction to life in Britain was to describe it as "a paradise, where you could do anything you wanted". After studying at civil engineering at Brighton Polytechnic Hamza gained employment as a bouncer in the strip bars of Soho under his original name from 1980 until 1983, when club baron Jean Agius was arrested and charged for conspiring to be a pimp. Agius alleges that Hamza may have also co-owned a club during this time.

Hamza was the imam of Finsbury Park Mosque from 1997, and a leader of the Supporters of Sharia, a group that believed in a strict interpretation of Islamic law. On 4 February 2003 (after being suspended since April 2002), Hamza was dismissed from his position at the Finsbury Park Mosque by the Charity Commission, the government department that regulates charities in England and Wales. After his exclusion from the mosque, he preached outside the gates until May 2004.

Yasser Al-Habib

Sheikh Yasser al-Habib is a Kuwaiti Twelver Shia scholar, and the head of the London-based Khoddam Al-Mahdi Organization, as well as Al-Muhassin mosque in Fulmer, Buckinghamshire. Al-Habib was convicted of “questioning the conduct and integrity of some of the ‘companions’ of the prophet Muhammad” in a lecture he had delivered, and sentenced to 10 years in prison in Kuwait but freed through a clerical error of royal pardon. He fled the country first to Iraq, then to Iran before settling and claiming asylum in the United Kingdom.

Yasser Al-Habib promotes and enacts the practice of Tatbir which includes striking oneself with a form of a talwar "sword" on the head, causing blood to flow in remembrance of the innocent blood of Imam Husayn. Some Twelvers also hit their back and/or chest with blades attached to chains. Tatbir are contested among Shia clerics. While some traditionalist clerics allow believers to indulge in tatbir, modernist clerics deem it impermissible because it is considered self-harm, thus haram in Islam.

Al-Habib and his followers are in advanced talks to buy the remote isle of Torsa, off the west coast of Scotland. The extremist scholar, who already runs military-style training camps, hopes his organisation can build its own school, hospital and mosque on the island, where it intends to practise sharia law.

In a video encouraging supporters to donate towards their £3.5 million target, the cleric says he will negotiate with the Government to allow Muslims 'from all over the world' to be given a visa in order for them to live in their new 'homeland'.

Al-Habib has since said on Fadak TV that Torsa, which comes with two little adjoining islets, is an 'irreplaceable opportunity'.

Abu Usamah

Abu Usamah at-Thahabi is an Imam at Green Lane Masjid in Birmingham, England. An American national born in New Jersey, he converted to Islam and studied at the Salafi-oriented University of Madinah in Saudi Arabia, an Islamic school popular with converts and international students. During Abu Usamah's tenure at Green Lane Masjid, he was among a group of preachers whom were the focus of the Undercover Mosque program which was first aired on 15 January 2007 by Channel 4. In the program, Abu Usamah was quoted, among other things, to have said that "Christians and Jews are enemies to Muslims", to have taught that "jihad is coming against the unbelievers", and to have referred to non-Muslims by use of the term "kuffar" which translates to "unbelievers" or people who reject Islam.

The story caused backlash that resulted in 364 viewer complaints to Ofcom. In addition to this, on 10 August 2017 the West Midlands Police also raised a formal complaint to Ofcom regarding what it considered to be a "completely distorted" view of the intended message by Abu Usamah and the other preachers. However, upon investigation of the matter Ofcom ruled in favour of Channel 4. The West Midlands Police also later apologised for their initial accusation, and offered £100,000 in compensation to Channel 4.

According to a report by the Centre for Social Cohesion, Usamah "advocates holy war in an Islamic state; preaches hatred against non-Muslims; that apostasy and homosexuality are punishable by death; and that women are inferior to men", following an undercover recording of him preaching to his congregation which featured in a Channel 4 Dispatches episode on radical Islam at British universities. During the documentary, Usamah also praised Osama bin Laden, and defended his right to freedom of expression, saying: "If I were to call homosexuals perverted, dirty, filthy dogs who should be murdered, that's my freedom of speech, isn't it?".

Shaykh Zakaullah Saleem

Shaykh Zakaullah Saleem is the head imam and head of education at the Green Lane Masjid in Birmingham, the United Kingdom. A video of an imam lecturing an audience on how to stone a woman to death emerged on social media, video is from Birmingham’s Green Lane Masjid that recently received £2.2 million from the British government to support young people across Birmingham. In the video, Imam Shaykh Zakaullah Saleem can be heard telling the audience that the woman should be buried waist-deep in the ground before stoning.

The video made rounds on X (formerly Twitter). Some users expressed doubts whether Zakaullah actually advocated the practice. However, another video of the same sermon shows the imam explaining to the audience that stoning to death is the punishment for ‘zina’ – and Islamic legal term for illicit sexual relations. Zakaullah is the head imam and head of education at the Green Lane Masjid. He worked in several roles before joining the mosque as imam. Zakaullah completed his Masters in Islamic Education from the Markfield Institute of Higher Education in Leicestershire. The institute is considered to be the UK’s leading centres for Islamic studies.

Abu Izzadeen

Abu Izzadeen (born Trevor Richard Brooks) is a British spokesman for Al Ghurabaa, a British Muslim organisation banned under the Terrorism Act 2006 for the glorification of terrorism. Abu Izzadeen is a British citizen born on 18 April 1975 in Hackney, east London, to a Christian family originally from Jamaica. Brooks converted to Islam the day before he turned 18, on 17 April 1993, changing his name to Omar, but preferring to be called Abu Izzadeen. He is fluent in Arabic.

“Izzadeen, had called for the Islamic flag to fly over Downing Street”.

Abu Izzadeen met Omar Bakri Muhammed and Abu Hamza al-Masri at Finsbury Park Mosque in the 1990s. He visited Pakistan in 2001, before the 11 September attacks, as part of Al-Muhajiroun; he said he went there to give a series of lectures. He also said he had attended terror training camps in Afghanistan. He described the 7/7 suicide bombers in London as "completely praiseworthy". On the eve of the anniversary of the 7/7 attacks in London, he was filmed preaching to a group of Muslims in Birmingham mocking and laughing at those who believe in the war on terror and who feel a need to resist Islamic terrorism. He has openly stated that he wishes to die as a suicide bomber.

On 20 September 2006, Abu Izzadeen and Anjem Choudary disrupted Home Secretary John Reid's first public meeting with Muslims since his appointment. He called Reid an "enemy" of Islam. John Humphrys interviewed Izzadeen on the edition of 22 September 2006 of BBC Radio 4's Today programme. In a heated discussion Abu Izzadeen stated that his aim was to bring about Sharia law in the UK and that this should be achieved without following the democratic process but rather "in accordance to the Islamic methodology".

Anjem Choudary

Anjem Choudary is a Pakistani Islamist and a social and political activist who has been described as "the face" of militant Islamism or the "best known" Islamic extremist in Britain. Members of his group have been accused of being linked to between 25 and 40% of terrorist events in Britain up to 2015 (according to various researchers, journalists and others),and of inspiring more than 100 foreign fighters to fight in jihad (according to the UK government).

After staying "just within the law" for many years (according to police), in summer of 2014 Choudary pledged allegiance to the Islamic State's "caliphate", and its "caliph" (Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi) by Skype. Two years later he was convicted under the Terrorism Act 2000 of inviting support for a proscribed organisation, namely the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. In 1996, Choudary, with Omar Bakri Muhammad, helped form the Islamist al-Muhajiroun organisation in Britain. The group organised several anti-Western demonstrations, including a banned protest march in London for which Choudary was summoned to appear in court.

Islam is not a religion of peace ... It is a religion of submission. We need to submit to the will of Allah.

Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment.

The UK government banned Al-Muhajiroun in 2010 and Choudary subsequently founded or helped found a series of organizations considered by many to be Al-Muhajiroun under new names such as Al Guraba', Islam4UK, Sharia4UK, Sharia4Belgium. Among the controversial causes espoused and statements made by Choudary and the group include implementation of Sharia throughout the UK, "Europe, and the wider world"; the conversion of famous British landmarks (Buckingham Palace, Nelson's Column) into palaces for a caliph, minarets, and mosques; praise for those responsible for the 11 September 2001 and 7 July 2005 attacks; calling for the execution of the Pope for criticizing the Islamic prophet Muhammad; and declaring that Muslims reject the concepts of freedom of expression, democracy, and human rights.

Ijaz Mian

Saudi-educated Dr Mian, has for years toured British mosques giving controversial lectures championing extreme Islam. Mian featured on Channel 4's undercover Dispatches documentary Undercover Mosque. He was recorded preaching at Ahl-e-Hadith mosque, in Derby. Imam Dr. Ijaz Mian on the subject of non-Muslim laws said, “You cannot accept the rule of the kafir [infidel]. We have to rule ourselves and we have to rule the others”, meaning, he was talking about establishing Islamic Sharia or Caliphate in Britain. This directly went against the British law though, no action had been taken against Dr. Ijaz Mian.

King, Queen, House of commons….if you accept it, you are a part of it. If you don’t accept it, you have to dismantle it. So you being a Muslim, you have to fix a target. There will be no House of Commons. From that White House to this Black House, we know we have to dismantle it. Muslims must grown (sic) in strength…then take over. You are in a situation in which you have to live like a state within a state, until you take over. But until this happens, you have to preach, until you become such a force that the people just submit to you.

Dr. Mian praised the Saudi religious police practice of imprisoning people who do not pray: "They send the police, and they say, well, if you don’t come for prayer, close your shop, we will arrest you. But if you don’t, then we have to bring the punishment on you, you will be killed, and nobody will pray on you.". Dr Mian lives in a £200,000 detached home he shares with his wife, two miles from 6 of 11 Birmingham addresses raided by anti-terror police. He had ranted about a dead serviceman at a meeting in a Birmingham mosque: "There was an individual killed in Afghanistan recently. Do you know what was written in a newspaper? Hero of Islam! The hero of Islam is the one who separated his head from his shoulders!".

Zakir Naik

Zakir Abdul Karim Naik is an Indian Islamic public orator who focuses on comparative religion. He is the founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) and Peace TV. Naik is currently a wanted fugitive in India, where, in 2016, the authorities charged Naik for money laundering while he was abroad in Malaysia; Naik did not return to India and became a permanent resident of Malaysia. Peace TV is banned in India, Bangladesh, Canada, Sri Lanka, and the United Kingdom.

In August 2006, Naik's visit and conference in Cardiff caused controversy when Welsh conservative MP David Davies called for his appearance to be cancelled. He said Naik was a "hate-monger", and that his views did not deserve a public platform. The high-profile Indian Muslim preacher was banned by Theresa May when she was home secretary, after he praised Osama bin Laden and said “all Muslims should be terrorists”. Announcing the exclusion order, Ms May said: “Numerous comments made by Dr Naik are evidence to me of his unacceptable behaviour.” David Cameron, the former prime minister, has described Mr Naik as a “hate preacher”.

Other speakers listed on Peace TV’s website include Bilal Philips, a Jamaican-Canadian Islamic preacher who was named by the US as a co-conspirator in a 1993 plot to bomb New York’s World Trade Centre. Dr Phillips has been banned from several countries, including the UK. In 2012, Peace TV was found to have breached Ofcom rules by broadcasting a speech in which the Dr Naik said he “tend[ed] to agree” that Muslims “should be put to death” if they converted to another faith and tried to spread their new religion against Islam.

Imran Ibn Mansur

Islamic scholar Imran Ibn Mansur, who is also known online as "Dawah Man" warned in a December 1, 2023 lecture at Darussalam Masjid and Cultural Centre in Southall, a suburb of London against Muslims joining protests. He said that it is impossible to attend a protest without the "free mixing" of men and women, standing next to a "guy that is going to take it in the backside at night," and Muslim sisters leaving their homes.

Mansur, or Dawah Man as he named himself, has a big platform for his extremist opinion. More than 199,000 followers have subscribed to his instagram channel, among them many young Muslims living in Britain. In a video on his Youtube channe, Imran ibn Mansur called homosexuality a “filthy, shameless” act and disease, words full of hatred.

Fundermentalism

Fundamentalism is a tendency among certain groups and individuals that is characterised by the application of a strict literal interpretation to scriptures, dogmas, or ideologies, along with a strong belief in the importance of distinguishing one's ingroup and outgroup, which leads to an emphasis on some conception of "purity", and a desire to return to a previous ideal from which advocates believe members have strayed. Fundamentalism within Islam goes back to the early history of Islam in the 7th century, to the time of the Kharijites. From their essentially political position, they developed extreme doctrines that set them apart from both mainstream Shia and Sunni Muslims.

Abu Waleed

Abu Waleed, 37, is at the centre of a spider's web of 21 online channels where Islamists brainwash followers with their hard-line Islamic ideology. The chilling material is passed freely between users on the encrypted mobile Telegram app which they consider to be secure against eavesdropping by spooks. Messages sent by British extremists mirror the extreme Islam spouted by followers of IS in an attempt to radicalise thousands more people to their cause. Investigators monitored traffic for two months on the chain of groups which have an estimated membership of 11,500 and operate under the noses of the security services.

Islamist Waleed - real name Shahid Janjua - preaches to more than 1,700 followers on his own Telegram channel. In an online conference speech he railed that western freedom meant being "free to become gay" and said "society had completely broken down". The Islamist, who lives in a council house in Hounslow, west London, and claimed benefits for his wife and three children, has described terror mastermind Omar Bakri as his mentor before. He has said non-believers and moderate Muslims "must wear red collars" and "walk in the middle of the road" while saying the Queen should wear a niqab and Kate Middleton is a "whore".

Dzhamilya Timaeva

A sunday school teacher wangled the job so she could encourage young children to wage Jihad, the Old Bailey heard. Dzhamilya Timaeva, 19, even produced a colourful cartoon book called the ‘Little Muwahideen’, which glorified waging war against non-believers of Islam. Prosecutors said Timaeva was the head teacher at the Windsor Muslim Association and was due to begin teaching classes at the Tawheed Islamic Education Centre, a Sunday school in Maidenhead. She devised lesson plans and a curriculum for the children attending the Tawheed school. Seventy of her books, which the court heard were ‘clearly designed for children’, were sent to her home address in Windsor, one mile away from Windsor Castle. The court heard the books title Little Muwahideen is a term used by believers of Islam, who think Allah above all else should be worshipped. Within the pages reference was made to the ‘duty’ of ‘waging of war for Islam’, the Old Bailey was told.

Officers seized her Apple iPhone 12 Pro and on it, jurors were told, there was a video on her Telegram account entitled: ‘Incite the believers’. The footage encourages viewers to carry out attacks by fire against buildings, forests and agricultural land in the West.

Prosecutor Gareth Weetman said: ‘This is a case about extremism. In simple terms, it is the prosecution case that Dzhamilya Timaeva, had extremist beliefs, and wanted to encourage others to share those beliefs. ‘The defendant saw it as her duty to teach these extremist beliefs to young children. In order to do so, she obtained a place as a teacher at an Islamic Sunday school. ‘It was not just a distant dream that the defendant would one day teach children, it was something she was putting into action. ‘Unquestionably by September 2022, the defendant was putting into place plans and was in fact teaching children. ‘This was all part of her plan to spread to others not just the furtherance of Islamic belief but that part of Islam is waging war against those who do not believe in Islam.’ Timaeva was arrested by police at Heathrow Airport at Terminal Two as she was about to board a flight to Turkey.

Wakefield Quran scandal

Four boys from Kettlethorpe High School were suspended after one of them, an autistic 14-year-old, brought a copy of the Islamic holy book onto the school site as a forfeit for losing a video game. It is alleged the book was “accidentally” dropped and “slight damage” was inflicted as a result. Police became involved in the episode, recording it as a “non-crime hate incident”.

The mother of the 14-year-old who brought the holy scripture onto the Kettlethorpe site told a local mosque that her son was “absolutely terrified” after he received “death threats”. She addressed the Jamia Masjid Swafia mosque, as did headteacher Tudor Griffiths, assuring those in attendance that her son had no “malicious intent” when he brought the Quran into school. Attendees at the mosque were told that “going forward” her son will be doing “more research on Islam”.

This quasi-judicial mosque hearing, denounced by observing members of the public as a Sharia Court, was supported by a West Yorkshire Police chief inspector despite no blasphemy laws or law or rule existing within the United Kingdom to revere or ‘respect’ any book.

As the Muslim population has grown, and the state-sponsored creed of multiculturalism has become ever more powerful, so Sharia law has strengthened its grip on our society.

Akef Akbar, a once conservative councillor, now an independent councillor and self-appointed arbiter, dismissed death threats to a child as nothing more than "passions flaring", echoing the responce by the mosque's imam. There has been no police action against (or expulsion of) pupils who issued death threats.

Local Labour Councillor Usman Ali (@UsmanAli4Ward5) issued a statement on Twitter in relation to events before deleting the tweet; he said:

After todays events at Kettlethorpe High School, where a Quran has been desecrated are a serious provocative action which needs to be dealt with urgently by all the authorities, namely, the police, the school and the local authority. This terrible action could destroy all the good progress that has been made in Wakefield to highlight and tackle Islamophobia.

All faithful Muslims were summoned (Dīn) to make strong feelings (“upset and hurt”) known to school headteacher and chief police officer investigating:

A tweet by Cllr Akef Akbar, suggests that rather than defusing and de-escalating the situation, he is actually on something of a robust investigative mission to ensure the school complies with sharia. Clearly, 'watered down' is precisely what is required.

Minister for Schools Nick Gibb condemned reported death threats against pupils from Wakefield who allegedly damaged a copy of the Koran as “totally unacceptable” adding that there is “no blasphemy law” in the UK and schools should be supporting “British values” including “individual liberty”.

It is outlandish that some felt it was necessary for an autistic child and his mother to be humiliated in such a public spectacle, displays a lack of humility, valued in British society, which is surely one of the most beautiful human attributes and worthy of respect perhaps even from God.

Batley Mohammed Cartoon Row

A teacher who received death threats after showing his pupils a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed is still in hiding a year later. The image, which was shown to children at Batley Grammar School in West Yorkshire during a religious education class, sparked days of heated protests by parents and activists at the school gates.

The 30-year-old teacher, who was forced to flee his home, was suspended at the time but later cleared when an independent investigation found that he had not intended to cause offence. Paul Halloran, a family friend, revealed that the teacher, who has not been named, has found it ‘immensely hard’ to rebuild his life after the row. Speaking in a video posted online, Mr Halloran said:

I obviously can’t go into too much detail, but as with anybody who goes to work one day and then is run out of their job and has to move away and build a new life, I am sure that people can imagine how very hard it is for him.

People in Batley still feel ‘very raw’ about the way the teacher was hounded from his home, he added:

The mob turned up at the school gates and applied immense pressure on the school. The pressure they put on ended up with the teacher having to go into hiding – and it can never be right..

Purpose of Life, an aid group identified the teacher on Facebook; the Charity Commission gave an official warning. This event occurred months after another teacher, Samuel Paty, was murdered in France by an extremist. Paty had shown pupils a depiction of the Prophet Mohammed during a class on free speech, having first given Muslim children permission to close their eyes.