Pro-Jihad Cleric Who Led Anti-Brit Troop Welcome Raising Funds for Jihad

This should come as no surprise. The same group of people who support jihad are also the same people who hate the troops fighting the jihadis around the world. In this particular case, it's an Islamist leader in the UK who led protests against British troops who were returning from doing their service in Iraq, and he's now urging his followers to provide funds for the international jihad.

AN Islamic cleric, whose supporters led a hate-filled protest against British troops returning from Iraq, has urged his followers to give cash to front-line mujaheddin fighters.

A recording has emerged of Anjem Choudary, a self-styled sharia judge and former leader of the banned group Al-Muhajiroun, telling his followers to stop spending their money on their families and divert it to Muslim soldiers waging jihad, or holy war.

There were demands for Choudary to be investigated by police. He has previously called for British women to be forced to wear burqas and for adulterers to be killed. Several radical preachers have previously been jailed for urging British Muslims to give money to Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents in Iraq.

The emergence of the tape coincided with the death yesterday of a British soldier in Afghanistan, the 150th to die there since 2001. The soldier of the 2nd battalion, Royal Welsh regiment, was on foot patrol.

This is far from the first time that Choudary's name has surfaced in relation to an unsavory past. Actually, that's understating this man's hatred. He's called for the execution of Pope Benedict for what Choudary claimed was the Pope's insults of Mohammad.

He's applauded the actions of the 9/11 Islamic terrorists and the London subway bombings.

He doesn't consider anyone living in Israel to be civilians, making everyone fair game for terrorist attacks. Anyone from an infant to a senior citizen is a suitable target for the terrorists.

This man is a menace, and his terrorist sympathies and overt actions to fund jihad must be put to an end. The British Authorities must take steps to stop his fund raising operations that fund the jihad.