Cleric in Britain Lives on Benefits, or "Jihad Seeker's Allowance"
Firebrand preacher Anjem Choudary was secretly filmed by the UK paper The Sun, urging his followers to get on Britain's welfare system or, as he dubbed it, claim their "jihad seeker's allowance."
As the Daily Telegraph noted, Choudary receives 25,000 pounds a year from the British government. But he's not grateful for the help:
Choudary, who has been banned twice from running organisations under the Terrorism Act, told an audience at a community centre in Bethnal Green, East London, that David Cameron, Barack Obama and the leaders of Pakistan and Egypt were the devil (shaitan) and should be killed.â??What ultimately do we want to happen to them?â? asked Choudary. â??Maybe Iâ??m the only one who wants the shaitan to be killed. The shaitan should be finished. There should be no shaitan.
â??Democracy, freedom, secularism, the parliament, all the MPs and the Presidents, all the kuffarâ??s ideas, everything the people worship, we have to believe that they are bad and we have got to reject them.â?
He later insisted that he never urged anyone to kill people.
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