Arena bomber’s friend was ‘wholly committed to terrorist purposes’, court heard

Abdalraouf Abdallah is a man “wholly committed to terrorist purposes”, a court heard.

His own father, Nagah Abdallah, as the father of Salman Abedi had done, came to the UK in 1993 as a refugee from the brutal regime of Colonel Gaddafi with his wife Samira Lalouche, a refugee from political oppression.

Abdallah’s uncle was among 1,300 people murdered by the dictator in a mass killing of political prisoners in 1996.

Although his parents are Libyan, Abdalraouf Abdallah was born in Pakistan but holds dual British and Libyan nationality.

The family, along with his elder brother Mohammed Abdallah, who was born in Algeria, lived at Westerling Way in south Manchester, home to a large Libyan community.

Abdallah became “at the centre of a jihadist network facilitating foreign fighters”, said Max Hill QC, who prosecuted him at his terror trial in 2016.

In 2010 the then student travelled to Libya for a gap year and was living there with relatives when the first of the Arab Spring protests engulfed neighbouring Tunisia.

As demonstrations spread to Libya’s capital Tripoli, he joined thousands calling for Gaddafi’s fall as the country descended into civil war.

Abdallah and his brother joined one of the most important rebel Islamist groups – the February 17th Martyrs Brigade.

Some of its members were considered to be potential enemies of the UK because of their former links to al Qaida.

Abdallah was shot, seriously wounded and left wheelchair-bound and paralysed from the waist down.

He was sent back to the UK in August 2011, rejoining family in Manchester where he became friends with Salman Abedi and began to help others carry out jihad.

His disabilities helped prosecutors in understanding his role in the events that related to his brother and others joining the so-called Islamic State jihadists in Syria.

In 2014 Abdallah’s brother Mohammed decided to travel to Syria to engage in the violence of the jihadists, travelling with a man named Nezar Khalifa and joining up with Islamic State fighters in July of that year, the court heard.

They intended to meet with two others, Raymond Matimba and Stephen Gray, the court heard.

Matimba was successful and eventually caught up with the elder Abdallah and Khalifa, all the while communicating with Abdalraouf Abdallah who arranged contacts, money, go-betweens and weapons, his trial heard.

While in Syria, Mohammed Abdallah was wired £2,000 in funds by his sibling, leaving Syria to collect the cash in Istanbul, the court heard.

Abdallah was in constant contact with his brother and his friends through social media apps.

On May 11 2016 Abdalraouf Abdallah was sentenced to an extended determinate sentence of nine years and six months, made up of a custodial element of five and a half years and an extended licence period of four years.

Stephen Mustafa Gray, of Whitnall Street, Moss Side, a former RAF serviceman and Iraq war veteran, who converted to Islam and tried to get to Syria, was jailed for five years for terror offences.

Raymond Matimba, of Bold Street, Moss Side, travelled with Gray to Syria but unlike him, was able to cross the border.

He reportedly became an IS sniper and appeared in footage with the so-called Beatles terror cell alongside “Jihadi John”.

Despite reports he was killed in combat his death has never been confirmed.

The current whereabouts of Khalifa are not known.


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Officer who designed police hijab aims to inspire Muslim women to join force

A police officer who helped design a new hijab because the one provided was uncomfortable and unsafe said she hopes it will inspire other Muslim women to join the force.

Pc Uzma Amireddy, a positive action coordinator, said the hijab given to her by North Yorkshire Police was uncomfortable, did not look good and was potentially unsafe in hostile situations.

She told the PA news agency: “If you want to attract people from diverse backgrounds they have to feel and look good in their uniform and something like that certainly will put people off joining.

“That’s why I took it on myself.”

After she took the issue to her chief officer – Pc Arfan Rahouf, who is the force’s operational lead for faith and belief, got involved in the development.

With input from Pc Amireddy, he set about finding a hijab that would be suitable.

They sourced one from a local supplier and suggested some alterations to help make it more suitable for use by officers – for example, the head and neck are detachable, meaning if someone were to grab and pull it, it will not pull around the neck.

Pc Rahouf said: “It looks professional, it looks smart, it’s safe, she feels beautiful in in it, she feels comfortable, she feels valued by the organisation because they’ve provided it and it’s just something that represents her faith.”

On Monday, Pc Amireddy wore the hijab on the streets for the first time.

She said: “When I went out on the streets of North Yorkshire – and I know it’s only one shift and I don’t know what the future holds – but it went really well and I think people saw past the hijab – which I wanted.

“Because I don’t want to be in the spotlight, I don’t want to be singled out. I want people to see me as a human being and a person doing the job that they love to do.

“And they saw me as a police officer on the doorstep, not as somebody from a Muslim background and that’s what I wanted.”

Now the pair are hoping the hijab might be taken up by forces more widely.

Pc Rahouf said: “We’ve been invited to have conversations nationally to see if this can be incorporated as a standard hijab with police forces across the country.”

For Pc Amireddy, she believes she has already seen the potential power the hijab could have.

She said: “A friend of mine was in the pipeline of joining the police force and when I told her and she’d seen the hijab and she tried it on, she said ‘you know what, I’m really happy with this’.

“So for me, that was my proudest moment – that I’ve made a Muslim female happy with joining the police force.

“She doesn’t have to face those obstacles and barriers that I had to.”

North Yorkshire Police commended the two officers, saying they had “worked really hard” to “make this important change happen”.

A spokesperson said: “It’s really important for North Yorkshire Police to make sure that the uniform for each and every police officer is fit for purpose.

“Inclusion and diversity is a key agenda for the police service. We need to be more representative of the communities we serve, in order for us to be an inclusive workforce and deliver a better service to all of our communities.”


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Security minister calls for social media companies to tackle radicalisation

Social media companies such as Facebook must help tackle online radicalisation to combat the threat of far-right terrorism, a Home Office minister has said.

Security Minister James Brokenshire said the Government should work with tech firms to slow the spread of misinformation online with the upcoming Online Harms legislation aiming to put a duty of care into law.

He told an online RUSI event “twisted perversions of the truth” can take young people vulnerable to radicalisation down a “potential pathway to violence”.

He said: “Of course, investigations by the police and security services are central to their counterterrorism efforts, but a friend or relative or a colleague will often be best placed to spot some of these warning signs and vulnerabilities, at an early stage.

“We also expect social media companies to play a role in identifying and flagging both illegal glorification content, and the potential terrorist grooming of vulnerable individuals.

“That is why we are so concerned when companies like Facebook, take a unilateral decision to apply end-to-end encryption, in a way that wholly precludes any access to the content of users messages.

“These companies must continue to take responsibility in tackling illegal behaviour.

“And we remain committed to working with them to ensure we continue to protect the public, without compromising user privacy.

“And the threat from the far right provides further significance to the need to be vigilant to the ways in which the online space can be misused for radicalisation.”

Facebook has previously announced plans to fully encrypt communications in its Messenger app, as well as its Instagram Direct service, on top of WhatsApp, which is already encrypted, meaning no-one apart from the sender and recipient can read or modify messages.

The social network has said the changes are designed to improve user privacy on all of its platforms, but law enforcement agencies fear the move will have a devastating impact on their ability to target paedophiles and protect children online.

Mr Brokenshire’s speech on Thursday came as official figures revealed there were a total of 6,287 referrals to the Government’s Prevent anti-radicalisation programme between April 2019 and March 2020, up 10% from a record low of 5,737 the previous year.

He said, along with Prevent referrals, authorities must also look at “external factors… that we can and will influence to be able to challenge those false and fake news stories that some will use to justify some sort of narrative, or ideology”.

Earlier this month, the head of UK counter terrorism policing Neil Basu said right-wing extremism is the fastest growing threat, with younger people particularly vulnerable to the ideology.

Ten out of the 12 under-18s who were arrested for terrorism last year were linked to extreme right-wing beliefs, police figures show, with around 20% of all terrorism arrests in the year to June 30 2020 linked to the ideology.

Mr Basu said Islamist terrorism remains the greatest threat, accounting for up to 80% of his workload, while right-wing extremism has grown from 6% to 10% in the past few years


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Categories: Far Right groups, James Brokenshire, radicalisation, social media companies

Islamist extremism referrals up for first time since 2016

The number of people flagged up to authorities for concerns over extremism rose 10% last year, with the first increase in Islamist radicalisation referrals since 2016, figures show.

There were a total of 6,287 referrals to the Government’s Prevent programme between April 2019 and March 2020 – up 10% from a record low of 5,737 the previous year.

Of these, 1,487 were for concerns over Islamist extremism – a 6% rise from 1,404 in the year to March 2019 and the first increase since the year ending March 2016.

The number of Prevent referrals for concerns over right-wing extremism dropped slightly in the latest year, to 1,387 from 1,388 in the 12 months to March 2019.

A further 3,203 people were flagged over a “mixed, unstable or unclear ideology”, while 210 were referred over other concerns like international and left-wing radicalisation.

With an annual budget of around £40 million, the Prevent scheme aims to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism.

It was launched after public bodies were placed under a statutory duty in 2015 to stop people being drawn into terrorism.

Anyone concerned that someone they know might be at risk can refer them.

When authorities decide there is a risk that the person referred to Prevent could be drawn into terrorism, they are then assessed as part of a scheme known as Channel and potentially taken on as a case. Engagement with the scheme is voluntary and it is not a criminal sanction.

Of the 1,424 cases examined by Channel last year, 697 were taken on as a case – the highest recorded.

Some 43% (302) of the cases taken on by Channel were cases referred over concerns relating to right-wing extremism, with 30% (210) for Islamist radicalisation.

The figures show most referrals came from the police and education bodies.

More than half of all those flagged up to authorities – 3,423 or 54% – were aged 20 or under.


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Extremist jailed for Islamist-related terror offences

An extremist who opted to listen to “notorious terrorist loudmouths” and downloaded instructions on how to carry out attacks has been jailed for 32 months for a series of Islamist-related terror offences.

Zakaria Yanaouri, 21, of Worthing, West Sussex, had pleaded guilty to five counts of possessing material likely to be of use to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, under Section 58 of the Terrorism Act.

Judge Philip Katz QC, sentencing at the Old Bailey, rejected Yanaouri’s claim that he only watched the “disgusting” materials such as images of Isis beheadings “out of curiosity”.

There was nothing to suggest that his views were based on ignorance or that he had a “genuine change of heart” from his views, the judge said.

Yanaouri was sentenced to 32 months imprisonment on each count, to be served concurrently.

The judge said Yanaouri, who was of previous good character, had opted to listen to “notorious terrorist loudmouths” instead of genuine clerics, and was “brainwashed by their propaganda”.

He noted that Yanaouri had deleted some apps from his phone in case it gave away his location, and some of his social media accounts had been barred for extremism.

He knew that what he was doing was illegal, the judge said.

Yanaouri came to the attention of the authorities during a port stop in January this year, as he and his family returned from holiday in Saudi Arabia.

Yanaouri was arrested on February 24 and counter terrorism officers carried out a dawn raid at his family home.

His Samsung Galaxy mobile phone was found under a pillow in the bedroom and a desktop computer in the living room of his family home was seized.

Issues of Rumiyah, the digital Isis propaganda magazine, were found on the computer and each had a section labelled “Just Terror Tactics”.

Information on how to commit knife attacks appeared in both print and cartoon format.

Instructional information regarding attacks on vehicles, how to commit an arson attack and a discussion on hostage taking were among the topics of articles in the magazine.

Prosecutor Robin Sellers said the seized material helped to show the defendant has “a mindset that is sympathetic to and supportive of the teachings and propaganda of Isis”.

He told the court: “The material included moving images of beheadings and scenes of execution of Isis captives commonly encountered by the viewers.”

In police interview Yanaouri said he thought he had been arrested because he was listening to lectures about Sharia law and Jihad on his phone or on the computer.

He said he downloaded the lectures from sites that promoted so-called Islamic State and included speeches by extremists Anjem Choudary and Abu Izzadeen.

Yanaouri told police that he downloaded footage of beheadings and other atrocities to watch them out of “curiosity”.

He said he wanted there to be a war in Iraq and conflict, Mr Sellers told the court.

He put up posters at a mosque around the time of the general election, urging people not to vote.

In response to questions about his watching fighting or people being killed for engaging in the war against Islamic State, Yanaouri simply told the officers: “Why didn’t they just accept Sharia law?”.

In police interview Yanaouri also said he would like to live under Sharia law and agreed with the teachings. He agreed that people should fight to advance that cause.

Yanaouri told officers he was not involved in planning acts of terrorism and he would not involve himself in the IS acts in the UK.

He recorded messages about martyrdom and protection of the faith, the court heard.

The prosecution suggested Yanaouri was on the cusp of “moving” from the possession of material that indicates a radicalised mindset to physical activities.


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Extremist jailed for making video inciting terror attack on Royal Festival Hall

A former carpet fitter who made a video inciting a terror attack on London’s Royal Festival Hall and posted it to an extremist WhatsApp group has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years.

Shehroz Iqbal, 29, posted the mobile phone footage to a group of like-minded friends on March 11 this year with the words “Attack, attack”.

Iqbal, of Ilford, east London, had denied encouraging terrorism on WhatsApp and disseminating Islamic State propaganda on Facebook but was convicted after a trial at the Old Bailey.

The court heard the posts had been uncovered on his phone when Iqbal was pulled over later that month for possession of drugs.

During his trial at the Old Bailey, prosecutor Kate Wilkinson described Iqbal as an extremist who was “volatile and prone to act on his extremism”.

He spent an hour-and-a-half at the Hayward Gallery on the South Bank near the Royal Festival Hall and Waterloo Bridge making the clip.

In the footage played in court, Iqbal said: “This is my spot Akhi (brothers) Central London. Attack, attack.”

He then sent the video to a WhatsApp group of 22 associates called From Dark To Light.

While on bail for the drugs matters and the video, Iqbal posted a 2015 propaganda video depicting Islamic State fighters on social media.

The court heard that the video, which featured an image of a dead body, was viewed more than 200 times on the defendant’s Facebook page.

On his arrest in April, Iqbal claimed he had been high on drugs when he posted the Facebook video without looking at it.

He explained the video at the Hayward Gallery by saying he had gone for a ride that day and made the film to show off his bike.

He claimed that the reference to “attack attack” was him practising dog commands as he wanted a German Shepherd like a pet named Rocky he had when he lived in Pakistan.

He declined to give evidence at trial.

At his sentencing hearing on Friday, the court heard Iqbal had been subject to two suspended sentences at the time of the offences for harassing members of a synagogue in Gants Hill.

He had put up posters with the words “Jewish sc*m” and “stop the Gaza bombings”, and later sent the synagogue a threatening email when a picture of him was posted on its website.

Iqbal also had a string of previous convictions for shoplifting, threatening behaviour and driving offences, as well as possession of drugs matters stretching back to 2010.

Laurie-Anne Power, for Iqbal, said he had been “seeking the approval” of other people in the WhatsApp group by making and posting the video.

“He was someone who was given very little regard – often dismissed and often ignored,” she said.

“He’s exactly the type of person people with extremist mindsets pray upon,” she said, adding “he felt a sense of belonging to that group for perhaps the first time in his life”.

She said that prior to the offending, Iqbal had sought help from an anti-extremism programme, saying: “I am sitting online all day and watching this material, and it is consuming me.”

Ms Power said Iqbal had turned to drug dealing during the first coronavirus shutdown when he lost his job as a carpet fitter.

She told the court he was so inept he had kept voice memos of all of his conversations with his co-accused and the people he was supposed to be delivering the drugs to.

Jailing him for six years with a three-year extended licence period, Judge Philip Katz QC said: “You have a long history of unpleasant, anti-Semitic threats and harassment.”

Judge Katz said he did not believe Iqbal’s approach to an anti-radicalisation programme to be a “genuine change of attitude”.

“I infer to the criminal standard that when dealing with the authorities you will say whatever you think suits you best at the time,” he said.

He continued: “You blame your offending on everything from drugs to mental issues to your difficulties opening a bank account, and most ironically to you being the subject of racism.

“The irony being your own overt racism, some of it towards other Muslims.”

Judge Katz jailed him for a further 30 months for one count of conspiracy to supply class A drugs and two counts of possession, taking Iqbal’s total custodial sentence to eight-and-a-half years.


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Man threatened pregnant Muslim woman with ‘death stare’ and stalked her in Sainsbury’s store

A pregnant Muslim woman, who wears the hijab and abaya, described feeling very threatened by the stalkerish and intimidating behaviour of a man who, for a brief time, followed her and her young child, in a branch of the supermarket chain Sainsbury’s in south London.

The anti-Muslim and Islamophobic incident occurred on the evening of November 18.

Speaking to Tell MAMA, she agreed to have their story told anonymously to raise awareness (but has not reported elsewhere) and mentioned how her husband had been in a different aisle when the threatening behaviour began.

At first, she described paying the perpetrator no attention as he walked past her, only to stop, retrace his steps, and give what she described as a threatening “death stare”.

Out of fear, she began to quicken her pace, pushing the trolley with her young child inside, only to see the man continuing to follow, and given it was late evening, there were few other customers around to intervene.

Only after reuniting with her husband did the perpetrator stop their intimidating behaviour, as the husband challenged the man, who stopped and said nothing.

She described the male perpetrator as white and in his late thirties to early forties.

Tell MAMA continues to highlight and document in research and the experiences of other Muslim women how anti-Muslim abuse and Islamophobia harms their mobility – whether out shopping, on public transport or in public areas, free from the fear of harm, discrimination, or violence.

This extends to other fundamental rights, including religious expression in workplaces and educational institutions without hindrance from management, and the expectation of equality when purchasing goods or when travelling.

As long evidenced in various annual and interim reports by Tell MAMA, the gendered dynamic, which often operates through racialised and misogynistic frameworks, also reveals how male perpetrators feel emboldened by harmful stereotypes about the apparent ‘meekness’ of Muslim women based on their religious clothing.

Such experiences also influence behavioural changes in Muslims, with some changing routines or avoiding public transport to risk the risk of experiencing abuse or violence again.

Throughout 2018, a majority of known perpetrators in verified reports to Tell MAMA were male (73 per cent, or 482 of 663), and 61 per cent of that figure were white men.

Tell MAMA approached Sainsbury’s for comment, and a spokesperson said, “We want everyone to feel safe and welcome in our stores, so we’re very concerned by this customer’s experience,” and urged the Muslim woman to contact them directly.

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New Zealand police officer becomes first in force to wear hijab in uniform

The New Zealand Police force has incorporated a hijab into its official uniform, with the first officer to wear it reporting that it “feels great”.

Constable Zeena Ali had the opportunity to trial several versions of the hijab before she began her police training, with the item now an official elective item of uniform.

The force worked alongside apparel design researchers Deb Cumming and Nina Weaver, from Massey University School of Design Wellington, to create the hijab, with Constable Ali taking part in the development process.

Constable Ali, who is originally from Fiji but has lived in New Zealand since she was a child, said: “Police and the Massey design team have been really easy to work with to make adjustments to the hijab.”

Initial work to develop a police uniform hijab started in 2018, with the hijab formally approved as an elective item of uniform on November 4 this year.

Constable Ali said: “It feels great to be able to go out and show the New Zealand Police uniform hijab because I was able to take part in the design process.

“Having a police-branded hijab means women who may not have previously considered policing can do so now. It’s great how the police incorporated my religion and culture.”

The force added that Sikh men have been able to wear a New Zealand Police turban since 2008.

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Younger teenagers being drawn in by right-wing extremism

Ten out of the 12 under-18s who were arrested for terrorism last year were linked to extreme right-wing beliefs, police figures show.

The proportion is high compared to data for all age groups, which shows that 20% of terrorism arrests in the year to June 30 2020 were linked to the ideology.

Head of UK counter-terrorism policing Neil Basu said that while Islamist terrorism remains the greatest threat and makes up 80% of his workload, right wing extremism is the fastest growing threat and has grown from 6% to 10% of his work in the past few years.

He told the PA news agency: “There has definitely been a growth in nationalistic material online, white supremacist literature, things that are extremely disturbing in the extreme right wing space.

“Many of which do hit criminal thresholds, some of which is designed to entice people into closed groups where criminality and Nazi ideology is being discussed. It does seem to be having an effect on younger and younger children.

“In our case work in the extreme right wing space the subjects of interest to us do appear to be younger.”

He added: “My warning has always been that the Islamist threat is still the greatest threat we face, but the one that’s growing fastest, from a relatively low base, is the right-wing terrorism threat.”

A new website – actearly.uk – is being launched to help concerned parents get advice on how to deal with teenagers who may be showing signs of radicalisation.

Terrorist groomers from both Islamist and extreme right wing ideologies deliberately target vulnerable people including children.

Mr Basu said: “We have seen young and vulnerable people both with complex psychological needs, but also just young and curious, being drawn through mainstream websites into encrypted chat rooms and closed groups.

“That’s when the really serious radicalisation and extreme ideologies start. It is entirely possible for those people to be groomed and radicalised in a very, very short period of time.”

Figures show that a total of 12 under-18s were arrested for terror offences in 2019, of whom 10 were linked to extreme right wing beliefs.

In the 18 months to June 30, 2020, a total of 17 under 18s were arrested on suspicion of terrorism, some as young as 14. Police said most will have been radicalised entirely online.

During that period police say 1,500 children under the age of 15 were helped by the Prevent programme, a government scheme to divert people away from terrorism.

Concerns have been raised that lockdown conditions have given extremists more opportunity to radicalise children.

Mr Basu said: “I’m worried that the radicalisation of some of the most vulnerable people in our society, namely our children, is happening by online groomers and terrorists both from the Islamist and extreme right wing ideologies.

“It’s that online radicalisation, the explosion of online and technological devices in people’s hands 24/7, on top of the pandemic, which has effectively led to a lot more time people are spending on those devices, locked in their rooms away from their protective influences, while they’ve been out of school or out of colleges.

“It’s all given more time for their radicalisation to take place. The people who are going to stop it are the people who love them the most, who are the friends and family that see that change in behaviour.”

He said that if people don’t want to speak to the police, the website has details of third parties including well known charities that have trained advisors who can help.

“It might be very difficult to understand what looks like normal teenage behaviour and what looks like the early signs of damage or grooming that is being done to your child online.

“I have some sympathy with parents who don’t understand or know how to monitor their child’s activity online and don’t know how to step in.

“The best technique has got to be ‘prevention is better than cure’. Let’s reach people before they get to the stage where they cross the Rubicon into terrorism.

“We want to stop people becoming criminalised, we want to stop them becoming terrorists. The way to do that is to act early.”


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Muslim woman called a ‘rat’ by racist customer in Costa Coffee

A Muslim woman spoke of her anger and frustration after a white, middle-aged couple made abusive and racist remarks, including the man shouting, “There’s a rat in here” at a branch of Costa Coffee in Leeds.

Speaking to Tell MAMA, she described how she felt targeted by the racist comments due to her ethnicity and because she was wearing a salwar kameez, in a mostly white area of the city.

After finishing her drink, the woman directed a demeaning ‘aww’ sound at her as she left.

The racist incident occurred on November 2, three days before new national restrictions took effect to reduce the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19).

In a statement to Tell MAMA, a spokesperson for Costa Coffee said: “Costa Coffee is passionate about creating an inclusive, warm and welcoming environment for our team members to work in and for our customers to enjoy. Racism and discrimination has no place within Costa Coffee.”

The spokesperson further confirmed to Tell MAMA that they will look into the matter internally to see if any complaints to staff about the racist incident had occurred.

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