Why everyone needs an Anjem Choudary (From Asian Image)

Why everyone needs an Anjem Choudary

5:50pm Tuesday 5th January 2010

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Anjem Choudary is public enemy number once again.

All he has to do is open his mouth every so often and he has the media lapping it up.

But how on earth did it come to this? How does this religiously unqualified man with little or no influence manage to get himself in almost every single paper? And that on a daily basis.

Sometimes he doesn’t have to say anything of any significance but his words are printed as if they are the unquestionable truth.

He himself admits his latest stunt of wanting to hold a protest in Wootton Bassett against the Afghanistan war was done purely for publicity purposes.

So, whilst this man is being vilified at almost every turn for being a complete nut let us for once put things into perspective.

We know Anjem Choudary does not have any supporters. We know he lives off a system which he generally despises. We realise that his group Islam4UK is there to get on everyone’s tits.

Regardless of this it seems this country needs him. Muslims don’t. The vast majority think he should crawl away back where he came from.

But there are elements of this country who need Anjem. They need him to say the things they know will annoy people. Despite everything else he makes for great headlines.

Without Anjem Choudary and his band of not so merry men there would be a gigantic void which admittedly would have to be filled by some other nut.

On this occasion he kind of made things easy for everyone. Coming less than a fortnight after some bloke tried to blow up a plane we Anjem decides he wants to let everyone know how many civilians the allies are killing in Afghanistan.

Look, Anjem we already know how many Muslims have been killed by the allies. We know how many Muslims have been killed by the Afghans themselves too. We also know this is an unjust war.

This protest had nothing to do with standing up for the ‘Muslim ummah’ it had to do with Anjem massaging his own ego. And massage that ego we all will.

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