Anjem Choudary applies for a £73-a-week benefits he once called ‘Jihad Seeker’s Allowance’ following his prison release
The Islamic hate preacher, 51, wants to pocket tax-payers’ cash just days after he was released from Belmarsh Prison
VILE Anjem Choudary has applied for £73-a-week benefits that he once called the ‘Jihad Seeker’s Allowance’.
The Islamic hate preacher, 51, wants to pocket tax-payers’ cash just days after he was released from Belmarsh Prison.
Earlier this week he was spotted enjoying a coffee and cake in a branch of Costa in Camden, North London.
The hate preacher was later seen walking through the streets of Camden with his wife among members of public who claims to despise.
Now it can be revealed, Choudary plans sit back and cash-in after serving his time.
But if he wants to benefit from government hand-outs he has to apply for a string of jobs to qualify.
The firebrand cleric, 51, must visit his local JobCentre Plus office under the terms of the Fresh Start scheme available to freed inmates and show he’s willing to work.
He’ll be offered a range of positions available to newly-freed offenders that often include working in takeaways, supermarket stock rooms and working for firms that employ ex-cons like Timpson’s.
Before he was sent down for supporting Islamic State, he and his wife were raking in £25,000-a-year in benefits for them and their four kids.
The ISIS-loving preacher continually poured out his hatred for the UK – but loved the benefits he was handed from the Treasury.
He was secretly filmed in 2013 mocking non-Muslims for working in 9-5 jobs their whole lives, and told followers that some revered Islamic figures had only ever worked one or two days a year.
“The rest of the year they were busy with jihad [holy war] and things like that,” he said. “People will say, ‘Ah, but you are not working’.
“But the normal situation is for you to take money from the kuffar [non-believers]. So we take Jihad Seeker’s Allowance. You need to get support.”
Ridiculing the daily lives of Brit workers, Choudary said: “You find people are busy working the whole of their life. They wake up at 7 o’clock. They go to work at 9 o’clock.
“They work for eight, nine hours a day. They come home at 7 o’clock, watch EastEnders, sleep, and they do that for 40 years of their life. That is called slavery.”
He was freed last week and is now living just yards from a Jewish centre in London – despite his deep-seated hatred of Israel and its people.
The cleric has often called for the Jewish citizens to leave Palestine before they are wiped out by a united Muslim force like Islamic State.
While his wife was once probed by cops about alleged anti-Semitic comments she made on TV.
Now Choudary – who was released from Belmarsh prison on Friday – is staying in a 31-bed bail hostel.
Less than three years ago the hate preacher appeared on US TV and said in a Skype interview that the Jewish people should leave Palestine.
He said: “Israel is an illegitimate occupying entity.”
He also said elections in the country just angered groups like ISIS.
He said: “The people who quite frankly want Isreal wiped off the face of the earth are going to grow in anger.
“There will be a conflict between the Muslims and the Jews in this area. The Muslims will prevail. There will be no longer be this Jewish entity in this region.”
The radical cleric's wife Rubana Akhtar was probed by police after featuring in a documentary also broadcast in 2015.
The programme, aired in November 2015, featured her, referred to as Umm L, ranting about plots against Muslims and referring to “filthy Jews”.
The documentary showed footage obtained by an undercover reporter of her addressing a group of women and teenagers, telling them of “plots” against Muslims and describing the “audacity and the arrogance of these Jews” over the Palestine conflict.
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She also hailed the establishment of a caliphate – a symbolic Muslim state – by ISIS, saying: “The good days have already begun, nobody ever have thought in our lifetime we would see the establishment of the Khilafah [Islamic State].”
And she claimed that more people were becoming radicalised as a result of government moves to stop extremism.
“If they thought it was a plan to deradicalise people, God they got it so wrong, because if anything more and more people are becoming what they call radicalised,” she said.
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