Hussain�s lunchtime speeches to the Ellahi Mosque in Tunstall High Street were recorded for four months from June last year, seeing him address around 40 worshippers including children.
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By Lizzie Dearden | September 24, 2017
Imam who told children martyrdom was 'greater success' than school convicted of supporting Isis
'When you don't fulfil the command of Allah, I'm coming to remove your head,' Kamran Hussain told Stoke-on-Trent mosque
An imam who told children that martyrdom was �greater than any other success� they could achieve at school has been convicted for supporting Isis.
Kamran Hussain�s extremist sermons were recorded by an undercover police officer at a charity-funded mosque in Stoke-on-Trent.
Prosecutors said Hussain told children as young as 10 that non-Muslims wanted to kill them and that they must �stand up and be ready to sacrifice, be ready to stand in the face of the elements of Shaytan [Satan], be ready to spill blood and have your blood spilt�.
The 40-year-old argued that he was exercising freedom of speech, and that the ability to discuss �difficult concepts in a challenging world� was an essential part of religion.
But a jury at the Old Bailey found him guilty of eight charges including supporting Isis and encouraging terrorism.
Hussain�s lunchtime speeches to the Ellahi Mosque in Tunstall High Street were recorded for four months from June last year, seeing him address around 40 worshippers including children.
Prosecutors said the 10 out of 17 sermons investigated �strayed beyond the mainstream moderate Islamic thought�.
The court heard that in June, Hussain referred to Isis as �a small fledgling state who is standing in the face of a pompous and arrogant army�, while calling on Muslims to pray for the terrorist group�s victory and for their �oppressors to be annihilated�.
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