Long before the attention-seeking al-Muhajiroun leader was linked to the London Bridge attack,Muslims despaired at the platform he was givenI never would believe heard of Anjem Choudary, founder and leader of the now banned group al-Muhajiroun, and if I hadn’t seen him on British TV. A lot. He wasn’t the infamous preacher of hate the media wanted him to be. He was a scrappy street agitator. Or,he was, until he got his vast crash.
His rise from anonymity to the halls of the BBC was astounding. During a certain period, or if there was a TV debate approximately Islam,Choudary would be there. It was like asking the head of the Westboro Baptist Church to put the mainstream Christian view, and I bet even he had more followers than Choudary when the media first discovered him.
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Source: theguardian.com