Dear All
If you don’t want to do the time, don’t do the crime.
Muslim radical Roshonara Choudhry had an idea; it was to repeatedly stab Labour MP Stephen Timms, trying to kill him.
Choudhry became radicalised after reading literature from radical Al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
Now she has plenty of time for reading as a Judge found her guilty of attempted murder and jailed her for life with a minimum term of 15 years.
As the sentence was read out the courtroom erupted in protest with a group of men began shouting in the public gallery 'Allahu akbar' ('God is great'), 'British go to hell' and 'Curse the judge'.
This is a victory for justice and she deserves prison.
Her attack on the former Treasury minister is thought to be the first Al Qaeda-inspired attempt to assassinate a politician on British soil.
And it was a failure.
She turned up at Stephen Timms constituency surgery at the Beckton Globe community centre in east London on May 14 after watching online jihadi sermons by US-born extremist Anwar al-Awlaki.
Mr Justice Cooke, sentencing Choudhry, said:
“You said you ruined the rest of your life. You said it was worth it. You said you wanted to be a martyr”.
He added that if Choudhry had succeeded in killing Mr Timms he would have given her a whole-life sentence, meaning she would never be released.
He told her:
“You intended to kill in a political cause and to strike at those in Government by doing so. You did so as a matter of deliberate decision-making, however skewed your reasons, from listening to those Muslims who incite such action on the internet. You are an intelligent young lady who has absorbed immoral ideas and wrong patterns of thinking and attitudes. It is not only possible, but I also hope that you will come to understand the distorted nature of your thinking, the evil that you have done and planned to do, and repent of it. You do not suffer from any mental disease. You have simply committed evil acts coolly and deliberately”.
The judge expressed his best wishes to Mr Timms saying:
“I understand that he brings to bear his own faith, which upholds very different values to those which appear to have driven this defendant. Those values are those upon which the common law of this country was founded and include respect and love for one's neighbour, for the foreigner in the land, and for those who consider themselves enemies, all as part of one's love of God. These values were the basis of our system of law and justice and I trust that they will remain so as well as motivating those, like Mr Timms, who hold public office”.
Roshonara Choudhry did not appear for the trial because she refused to recognise the jurisdiction of the court and had taken the huff.
Hopefully someone told her the sentence, 15 years minimum in the pokey.
Well done Mr Justice Cooke 'Allahu akbar' ('God is great').
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
If you don’t want to do the time, don’t do the crime.
Muslim radical Roshonara Choudhry had an idea; it was to repeatedly stab Labour MP Stephen Timms, trying to kill him.
Choudhry became radicalised after reading literature from radical Al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
Now she has plenty of time for reading as a Judge found her guilty of attempted murder and jailed her for life with a minimum term of 15 years.
As the sentence was read out the courtroom erupted in protest with a group of men began shouting in the public gallery 'Allahu akbar' ('God is great'), 'British go to hell' and 'Curse the judge'.
This is a victory for justice and she deserves prison.
Her attack on the former Treasury minister is thought to be the first Al Qaeda-inspired attempt to assassinate a politician on British soil.
And it was a failure.
She turned up at Stephen Timms constituency surgery at the Beckton Globe community centre in east London on May 14 after watching online jihadi sermons by US-born extremist Anwar al-Awlaki.
Mr Justice Cooke, sentencing Choudhry, said:
“You said you ruined the rest of your life. You said it was worth it. You said you wanted to be a martyr”.
He added that if Choudhry had succeeded in killing Mr Timms he would have given her a whole-life sentence, meaning she would never be released.
He told her:
“You intended to kill in a political cause and to strike at those in Government by doing so. You did so as a matter of deliberate decision-making, however skewed your reasons, from listening to those Muslims who incite such action on the internet. You are an intelligent young lady who has absorbed immoral ideas and wrong patterns of thinking and attitudes. It is not only possible, but I also hope that you will come to understand the distorted nature of your thinking, the evil that you have done and planned to do, and repent of it. You do not suffer from any mental disease. You have simply committed evil acts coolly and deliberately”.
The judge expressed his best wishes to Mr Timms saying:
“I understand that he brings to bear his own faith, which upholds very different values to those which appear to have driven this defendant. Those values are those upon which the common law of this country was founded and include respect and love for one's neighbour, for the foreigner in the land, and for those who consider themselves enemies, all as part of one's love of God. These values were the basis of our system of law and justice and I trust that they will remain so as well as motivating those, like Mr Timms, who hold public office”.
Roshonara Choudhry did not appear for the trial because she refused to recognise the jurisdiction of the court and had taken the huff.
Hopefully someone told her the sentence, 15 years minimum in the pokey.
Well done Mr Justice Cooke 'Allahu akbar' ('God is great').
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
A London Establishment black-op... see Human Trafficking - Brussels and Portugal... Hubs... The shape-shifters need feeding...
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