Freed Brit terrorist using Facebook to support jailed hate preachers
A FANATICAL convicted terrorist has been spreading hard-line views and rallying support for hate preachers on social media.
After being released from jail three years ago, Shah Jalal Hussain from East London has used Facebook to endorse an Islamist cleric accused of inspiring people to become jihadists in Syria.
Hussain, 33, has also been encouraging his followers to raise funds for suspected terrorists as well as condoning the stoning to death of adulterers, reports the
Slamming Hussain's Facebook activity as "unacceptable", security minister Ben Wallace called for internet companies to clamp down on extremists using their platforms to spread hate.
He said: “There should be no safe spaces for terrorists online.
“It is unacceptable that this individual is allowed to get away with such activity."
Hussain is a former member of the banned al-Muhajiroun group — which inspired jihadis including the London Bridge attackers and other terrorists — has twice been convicted of terrorism offences.
In 2008, he was jailed for fundraising for terrorists in Iraq.
Six years later, he was caged for three years for encouraging terrorism and spreading online terror propaganda.
Hussain is believed to have been freed in 2015.
In one video, Hussain, also known as Abu Muwahhid, listed dying "on the battlefield" against western forces as a way of getting to heaven.
His current Facebook account started in March when he asked his 1,700 followers to fundraise for a British national called Samiun Rahman, who is an alleged al-Qaeda recruiter detained in India.
His posts have endorsed a string of firebrand clerics.
Facebook has since removed the posts and accounts.
Dr Erin Saltman, Policy Manager for Counter Terrorism and Counter Extremism at Facebook, said: "We work aggressively to combat extremism on our platforms and invest heavily in new technology and expert partnerships to identify, review and remove extremist and terrorist content.
"We remove 99% of ISIS and al-Qaeda content on Facebook before it is ever reported to us.
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"We also set up the Global Internet Forum for Counter Terrorism [GIFCT] with other technology companies to share information and best practices.”
Earlier this year it was revealed social media firms have not made a single referral to police over suspected terrorist material.
Mark Rowley, chief of counter-terror policing, said extremists were still using some sites with impunity.
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