So Anjem Choudary has been jailed for terrorism offences.
The preacher was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in September 2016 for encouraging Muslims to join self-styled Islamic State.
(P.S. He was released in 2018 but then jailed for life in 2024 for directing terrorist group al-Muhajiroun. No doubt he is now radicalising inmates in prison.)
I RADICALISED ANJEM ON A TV SET
I met Anjem just once, on a TV set. The producers had tried to set up Anjem, myself and an orthodox Jewish rabbi against a comedian posing as a legitimate interviewer to provoke us into intemperate statements.
I spotted what was going on and explained it to the other two, setting myself up as our ad hoc shop steward. I think I can take the credit for radicalising Anjem and the rabbi into refusing to go on. The programme was later pulled from its proposed schedule.
I found Anjem Choudary a polite, if uncompromising, individual. He was and is obviously a devout Muslim. His message is that Sharia (that’s Arabic for ‘law’) needs to be imposed and a world-wide Caliphate (Muslim rule) established. But that is no more than a fairly reasonable conclusion from following the ‘prophet’ Mohammed’s example and his Koran.
ANJEM WANTS ISLAM TO DOMINATE THE WORLD SHOCK
The judge said that in one of Choudary’s speeches he referred “happily to the prospect of the flag of Islam flying over 10 Downing Street and the White House”, and in another set out his ambitions for Islam to “dominate the whole world”. So what? That’s Islam, Your Honour. Get over it.
Surah 8:39. And fight them on until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and
faith in Allah altogether and everywhere; …
After a fourteen-year career out on the streets radicalising Muslim youth with impunity, including at least one of the killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby, Anjem Choudary was only convicted on 28th July 2016 because he invited support for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which is illegal under the Terrorism Act 2000. Islamic State is listed by the Home Office as a Proscribed Organisation. A video of him swearing allegiance to the group did the job. But again, the ‘State’ part of their title may be aspriational, but IS are authentically Islamic, killing Christians and other ‘kaffir’ and taking over land just as the Koran prescribes:
Surah 5:33. The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with
might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of
hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and
a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter;
Sentencing, Mr Justice Holroyde said Anjem had ‘shown no remorse’. You don’t say! He’s not sorry for being a Muslim? Even after a nice cup of tea in the judge’s drawing room? Whatever is the world coming to?
ARE WE RADICALISING CHRISTIAN YOUTH?
And here’s a challenge for you. Are Christian ministers doing as good a job radicalising our youth as Anjem did radicalising young Muslims? Are our young people as sold out for Jesus and his message of peace with God through repentance as Anjem’s youth were – are – for Mohammed and his message of jihad and war?
Mark 1:14 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
Are our young people as committed to the righteous rule of God’s law commanded by King Jesus as Anjem’s Muslims are to Sharia?
Matt 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
And are Christian youth as sure Christ is going to rule the whole world as Anjem’s young people are confident of their world-wide Caliphate?
Luke 19:27 But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
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I think D A Carson & R T France are on the ball when they exegete Jesus as having defended himself against accusations of trying to destroy Sinai, yet both affirming that it could not be destroyed and that it prophesied its own God-ordained conclusion when its messianic message was fulfilled by messiah. In short, Sinai, along with its covenant-specific laws (eg physical circumcision, hardly a “least command” but set aside by Paul, hardly the “least in the kingdom”), has been ended by God and the baton of salvation history passed onto messiah. Hence we are to run with the new, Yeshuic, covenant.
Lk.19:27 I’d take to mean (having looked at the rightly unpopular Archelaus who sought a kingdom, and the tragedy that came to those known to had opposed his application for kingship), that rejection of messiah who mean banishment from his kingdom, banishment often expressed in the OT by the spiritual term death. Application would perhaps range from Judas, and geographic Jerusalem’s fall, through to Christ-rejecters missing his here & now kingdom, to ultimate damnation where hatred of God has defined individuals. Without this context, I fear that folk could misunderstand your isolated quote to imply a bloodthirsty christ, rather than one who wept over the tragedy inevitable once geographic Jerusalem at large rejected him and sought false-messianic freedom.
I think we’d agree that Mk.1:14 should still call godly people to repent, to radicalise (radix = root), and to enter messiah’s kingdom. We ought indeed be on fire with the good news of life in Christ, and I have sympathy with radical Muslims (Islamists) where as slaves they genuinely seek God’s kingdom for Allah’s wish, irrespective of their own loss or gain.
Anjem Choudary has the courage to stand up for what he believes in. Sadly mosts “Christians” are just chocolate soldiers.
Most “Christians” would rather fit in with poltical correctness than stand firm for the Bible.