A convicted terrorist is standing for election in Birmingham. Shahid Butt was convicted in Yemen in 1999 for conspiring to bomb the British consulate in Yemen, an Anglican church and a hotel. Now he claims to have been wrongly convicted, saying that the charges were not terrorism related and he was forced into signing a confession.He was reportedly linked to an armed Islamist jihadi group of radicals who kidnapped 16 Westerners in 1998. They were accused during the criminal proceedings of being sent to Yemen by this guy.
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He is the hook-handed hate cleric, the former preacher of London’s Finsbury Park mosque, who was found guilty of 11 charges of terrorism and kidnapping in a Manhattan court. He’s currently being sentenced to two life sentences, plus 100 years with no possibility of parole in America. In the early 1990s, Shahid, who is standing for election in Birmingham Sparkhill ward, apparently travelled to Bosnia as an aid worker and then just stayed and joined the foreign fighters brigade of the Bosnian army. Before that, he had been jailed in Birmingham for violence and was in trouble regularly through the 1980s, linked to his role in the notorious ‘Links Gang’.According to reports in the Birmingham Mail, he has openly encouraged the city’s Muslim youth to “work out at the gym and learn to fight in readiness for potential attacks”, and urged Muslims to stand together and hold their ground against people of other faiths who he describes as disbelievers.At the Aston Villa ground, he ranted about how Muslims aren’t pacifists when Jewish fans were banned from coming.So he’s standing for election as part of the Independent Candidates Alliance, fronted up by comedy lawyer Ahmed Yacoub.LATEST DEVELOPMENTS:Lee Anderson hands David Lammy brutal PMQs takedown over Labour’s pub support package: ‘Be a man!’Keir Starmer says Reform UK’s candidate at Gorton and Denton by-election will ‘tear people apart’Kemi Badenoch scolded for ‘insulting’ attack on ex-Tories after lashing out at Reform defectorsYou see, what he needs to say there as well is that there’s a defence for every alleged offence, right? That’s the thing, isn’t it?It’s like the cow, the bag. His catchphrase means that his clients are guilty, right? Come on, mate.Anyway, to all the left-wing liberals out there, are you waking up yet?Can you see what’s going on here? Can you see what’s happening to our country? All the left-wing parties, they say ‘Reform is the biggest threat to Britain’.Look at what I’ve just shown you. Are you mental? Our Standards:
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