ANJEM CHOUDARY'S NEWSNIGHT APPEARANCE BLASTED
ABOVE: Anjem Choudary appeared on Newsnight last night
Banned from France but welcome on Newsnight.
Defence Secretary Jim Murphy
TELEVISION stations have been blasted for
allowing hate preacher Anjem Choudary to air his views just 24 hours
after soldier Lee Rigby was killed in the Woolwich terror attack,
Tory Baroness Warsi had led a group of MPs in
condemning shows like Newsnight for allowing Choudary, who has been
pictured with Woolwich terror suspect Michael Adebolajo, to talk about
the atrocity.
He was invited on the show just one day after Lee Rigby was killed in the violent attack.
Baroness
Warsi said: "We all have a responsibility, including the media, not to
give airtime to extremist voices – idiots and nutters who speak for no
one but themselves.
"The heartening thing in the midst of all this tragedy is
that the British Muslim community has, with a unified, unreserved voice,
condemned the killing and pledged support for our armed forces."
She added: "This time everyone has stepped up to the mark.
"Yet here broadcasters are undoing all this by giving a platform to one appalling man who represents nobody.
"I am really angry."
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radical Islamist Choudary, who also appeared on Channel 4 News last
night, planned a protest march through Royal Wooton Bassett in 2010 -
the town where dead British soldiers were repatriated.
He also fronted the now-banned Islamist group Al Muhajiroun, and is accused of radicalising Woolwich suspect Adebolajo.
Baroness Warsi is not the only politician to condemn TV stations for allowing Choudary a voice.
Labour Shadow Defence Secretary Jim Murphy tweeted: "Banned from France but welcome on Newsnight.
"A mistake of the BBC to invite Anjem Choudary onto the telly tonight."
Shadow Justice Secretary Sadiq Khan added to London radio station LBC that Choudary was "an offensive and obnoxious media tart."
The suspects in the killing of soldier Lee Rigby are said to have been known to MI5 for years.
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