UK Court Sentences Edmonton Man to 5 Years in Jail for Terrorism Offences

A Canadian citizen and resident of Edmonton was sentenced to five years in jail by a British court for his membership in a proscribed terrorist organization. Khaled Hussein, 29, was handed his sentence in a Crown court at Woolwich on July 30, alongside British radical Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary. The two men were convicted for their involvement in Al-Muhajiroun, a group seeking to establish an Islamic theocracy and was listed as a terrorist entity in the UK in 2010. The group is not banned in Canada. In his sentencing remarks, Justice Mark Wall described the group as a “radical organisation intent on spreading Sharia law to as much of the world as possible using violent means where necessary.”...