Anjem Choudary's Sentencing During Riots is a Timely Reminder of the Media's Role in Promoting Hatred

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Anjem Choudary's Sentencing During Riots is a Timely Reminder of the Media's Role in Promoting Hatred

As Britain burned and Muslims and mosques were attacked by far-right rioters fuelled by disinformation, Islamophobia and anti-immigrant sentiments, Britain's most infamous extremist's reign came to a quiet end at Woolwich Crown Court. On July 30, as the riots ignited in Southport before spreading across the country in a wave of mayhem that all but monopolised the media, Anjem Choudary was jailed for life for directing the banned terror organisat…