Thursday - December 06, 2007

Female ‘lyrical terrorist’ escapes jail

This country will go to all lengths to be very fair. 
Even if means sucking up to this filth.

Female ‘lyrical terrorist’ escapes jail
By Natalie Paris and agencies
Last Updated: 1:43pm GMT 06/12/2007

A worker at Heathrow airport convicted for possessing records likely to be useful for terrorism has today been spared a prison term.

Samina Malik, 23, called herself the “lyrical terrorist” and stocked a “library” of material that would be useful to terrorists at her family home in Southall, west London.

She wrote poems called How To Behead and wrote on the back of a WH Smith till receipt: “The desire within me increases every day to go for martyrdom.”

Malik, who worked at the stationery shop, was given a nine month suspended jail sentence after her conviction at the Old Bailey undersection 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000 last month.

She had already spent five months in custody.

Described as an unlikely but committed Islamic extremist, Malik told the court she had only given herself the name because she thought it was “cool”.

She insisted in court that she was not a terrorist but prosecutors she had visited a website linked to jailed cleric Abu Hamza and stored material about weapons.

She had also listed her interests on a social networking site as “helping the mujaheddin in any way I can”.

Under her favourite TV shows, she listed: “Watching videos by my Muslim brothers in Iraq, yep the beheading ones, watching video messages by Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri and other videos which show massacres of the kaffirs.”

Judge Peter Beaumont said he thought Malik’s offence was “on the margins of what this crime concerns.”

In her defence, John Burton, said that Malik had been “searching to find out about Islam” when she was “subjected to the messages of hate”.

“She became hooked on Abu Hamza-type addresses and that affected her mindset”, he added.

The conviction has provoked some criticism however.
Muhammed Abdul Bari, Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Britain, said today that he did not think such cases should come to court.

“Many young people download objectionable material from the internet, but it seems if you are a Muslim then this could lead to criminal charges, even if you have absolutely no intention to do harm to anyone else.

“Young people may well have some silly thoughts. That should not be criminalised. It is their actions that we should be concerned about.”

But a Crown Prosecution Service spokesman said: “Samina Malik was not prosecuted for writing poetry.

“Ms Malik was convicted of collecting information, without reasonable excuse, of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.

“This information included terrorism and poison handbooks as well as military manuals and other material likely to be useful to someone planning terrorist activity.”

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