Islamist terrorists spread jihad and hatred from behind bars on networking website for extremist

  • Abu Hamza, Abu Qatada and Osman Hussain are some of the extremists using the site
  • Website is used as networking tool for jihadist militants
  • Posts celebrate murder of innocent people and urge fresh atrocities against the West
  • Inmates urged to lie about their reform to get early release to continue holy war
  • Letters reveal prisoners are radicalising other inmates
  • Ministry of Justice said it recognises risk posed by extremist offenders

Last updated at 12:59 PM on 19th February 2012

Islamic terrorists are using the internet to spread their hatred from behind bars.

Dozens
of letters written by some of the world’s most dangerous extremists –
including those locked up for murderous plots in Britain – have been
published on MuslimPrisoners.com

The hate-filled messages celebrate murder of innocent people and urge fresh atrocities against the West.

The website is being used as a
networking tool for the jihadist militants – many with links to
al-Qaeda – and encourages the public to send emails, with the
promise that their letters will be passed onto the inmates.

Masthead from MuslimPrisoners.com, a website allowing Islamic terrorists to spread their messages of hate

Hatred: The masthead of MuslimPrisoners.com includes images of extremists such as Abu Hamza, centre,

Its users include notorious hate
preachers
Abu Hamza and Abu Qatada. who was released under strict bail conditions,
which include a ban on him using the internet, this month.

Leaders
of terrorist plots targeting passenger
planes and London landmarks are also said to have used the website,
including Hussain Osman, jailed for his botched attempt to blow up
Shepherd’s Bush Tube station in 2005.

It is claimed the website was set up by
Abdul Muhid, a member of the banned Al-Muhajiroun group, who has served
time in jail for inciting murder and hatred during protests over Prophet
Mohammed cartoons.

The Sunday Times reported that among
messages posted on the website, are some from Abdulla Ahmed Ali, caged
for at least 40 years as leader of a suicide plot to blow up
trans-Atlantic passenger jets.

Ahmed hails the ‘humiliating defeat’
inflicted on NATO forces in Afghanistan by the Taliban.

His message – posted last month – read: ‘If the mushriks [non believers] can leave their families and sacrifice
their lives and limbs to occupy, enslave and oppress the ummah [global
Muslim community] then we too can sacrifice 100 times that to defend
it.’

Abdulla Ahmed Ali, who is said to have set up MuslimPrisoners.com allowing jailed Islamist terrorists spread hate messages

Islamic extremist Abdul Muhid had charges dropped against him when he was arrested after complaints that he was urging the slaughter of British troops in Iraq

Islamist: Abdulla Ahmed Ali, left, hails NATO defeat in Afghanistan on website set up by Abdul Muhid, right

There are also jihadist messages from
Bilal Zaheer Ahmad, jailed last year after calling on Muslims to copy
Roshonara Choudhry and murder MPs who voted for the Iraq war.

Ahmad’s letters also includes calls
for inmates to lie about their reform so they can be freed early to the
continue their holy war and reveal extremist material is freely
available to inmates and that he is in direct contact with Choudhry.

Last July he wrote: ‘I received a
letter from that sister during the week. She said it feels like she was
only arrested yesterday and the last year of her life has been the
best.’

Choudhry, who attempted to murder
former Labour minister Stephen Timms, is also reported to have posted on
the website, describing the euphoria she felt from having the support of Muslims when she was jailed at the Old Bailey.

Another inmate, Hamza Davidson, 34, who is serving a
life sentence, is said to have claimed to be studying books by Bilal Philips, a Jamaican
preacher who calls for homosexuals to be executed and was banned from Britain.

Other letters reveal extremists
are radicalising other inmates. A Commons select committee report
on radicalisation this month claimed one prisoner was persuaded to
become a suicide bomber within 72 hours of arriving at London’s Belmarsh prison.

Abu Qatada out and about, London, in 2008

Radical Imam Abu Hamza al-Masri who preaches hate against the west

Holy war: Messages from hate preachers Abu Qatada, left, and Abu Hamza, right, were on the website

The website also features jihadist video
footage and legal experts have warned the website could have breached
laws on inciting terrorism.

Labour MP Steve McCabe, who sits on
the Commons home affairs committee, said: “Some of this stuff sounds
dangerously close to incitement.

‘If the prison authorities claim they
are monitoring and censoring material, then they are clearly not doing it
effectively.’

The website was taken down after
the newspaper contacted Muhid – but a single homepage remains and features
and email address fro people to send their letters, and quotes from the Qur’an.

Muhid denies glorifying terrorism, has
offered to take down anything amounting to incitement and stressed
inmates’ letters had to be screened by prison authorities.

He said he did not intend to break the
law, and added: ‘Our role is to connect prisoners with the outside
world…increasing the morale of these people.’

But Muhid admitted a disproportionate
number of letters were sent to inmates with terrorism links and said the
only just law is Islamic law.

A Ministry of Justice (MoJ) source
said prisoners were not able to contribute directly to websites and that
the department was aware of it.

An MoJ spokesman said: “The National
Offender Management Service (Noms) recognises the risks posed by extremist
offenders and those who seek to radicalise others and takes their
responsibility to effectively manage these risks seriously.

“Since 2007 a dedicated, expert unit
has led a programme of work across prisons and probation to strengthen
our response to the threat from these offenders, drawing on our long
history of managing terrorist prisoners and other dangerous individuals.

“All high-security establishments have
a dedicated counter-terrorism unit, and a national unit also exists to
analyse intelligence from the High Security Estate.

‘Noms’ response to the current threat
has included staff training in extremism awareness, the ongoing
development of interventions designed to assist offenders in
disengagement from extremism and the strengthening of the role of the
Muslim chaplain in prisons.’

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