Wootton Bassett protest group Islam4UK to be banned

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Islam4UK, the Islamist group which provoked outrage with its plan to march through Wootton Bassett will be banned under counter-terrorism laws, Home Secretary Alan Johnson has announced.

Published: 8:24AM GMT 12 Jan 2010

The groups leader Shajjadar Choudhury (2nd from left) arriving at Luton Magistrates Court Photo: SOUTH BEDS NEWS AGENCY
The order will come into effect on Thursday and make it a criminal offence to be a member, punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

Mr Johnson said the group had tried to escape proscription simply by changing its name.

He said the order would apply to the group's other names, including Al Muhajiroun.

"I have today laid an order which will proscribe Al Muhajiroun, Islam4UK, and a number of the other names the organisation goes by," he said.

"It is already proscribed under two other names - Al Ghurabaa and The Saved Sect.

"Proscription is a tough but necessary power to tackle terrorism and is not a course we take lightly.

"We are clear that an organisation should not be able to circumvent proscription by simply changing its name."

The law to ban the group is made in a parliamentary order which was laid in the House of Commons today.

Islam4UK is lead by Anjem Choudary, who founded Al Muhajiroun in the 1980s with radical cleric Omar Bakri Mohammad.

Choudary's announcement of a planned march through Wootton Bassett caused dismay.

The Wiltshire town, near to RAF Lyneham where fallen servicemen are repatriated, has come to symbolise the country's commitment to its war dead.

Critics called for police to ban the march in advance, but Choudary dropped the idea on Sunday.

The ban is an extension of an existing order made under the Terrorism Act 2000 that bans the group under the name Al Ghurabaa and The Saved Sect.

From Thursday it will be banned under the names Call to Submission, Islam4UK, Islamic Path, and London School of Sharia.

Source : Wootton Bassett protest group Islam4UK to be banned - Telegraph

 

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is it true that there is a story which claims this group was backed by certain jews?

something was telling me they a read a story on this, just wanted to know if it checked out.