Conviction Is Latest Attempt to Kill Terrorist ‘Chameleon’ That Is Al-Muhajiroun

Published on July 23, 2024

The conviction of Anjem Choudary on terrorist charges, after a trial at Woolwich Crown Court, highlights the whack-a-mole nature of proscribing terrorist organisations which keep changing their names. Choudary, 57, was convicted on Tuesday of directing a terrorist organisation and addressing meetings to encourage support for the group. He was one of the founders, along with Omar Bakri Muhammad, of Al-Muhajiroun—which means The Emigrants in Arabic—which was created in 1996, as an offshoot of Hizb ut-Tahrir, which was not itself proscribed until earlier this year. In October 2019 Michael Kenney, who is now a professor of international affairs at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States, wrote a report titled, “What is to be done about al-Muhajiroun?”...

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