Hate preacher Anjem Choudary has boasted of joining social-media apps popular with children – raising fears that he plans to spread his vile message to a wider and younger audience.
The 54-year-old cleric, who was jailed in 2016 for encouraging people to join IS, has signed up for accounts with , and Pinterest, which are all widely used by teenagers and schoolchildren.
Other social media accounts created by Choudary, who was released on licence in 2018 but placed under strict rules that limited his ability to proselytise, were recently closed but he has since managed to rejoin Facebook and Telegram, an encrypted messaging app.
Anjem Choudary has set up profiles on social media apps that are popular with children and teenagers, including TikTok and Snapchat
Speaking to The Mail on Sunday, the shameless cleric bragged: ‘I have them all up my sleeve.
‘I’m signed up to all of them… I’m on everything.
Choudary told the Mail on Sunday that he will be posting on the apps ‘Islamically’ and avoiding ‘prancing around’
‘There is an endless list of things you can sign up to.
‘TikTok is for uploading small clips and talks and doing conferences and stuff like that.
‘Obviously, I will be doing it Islamically.
There is a lot of rubbish on some of these platforms because of the youth. Singing and dancing, prancing around. And I am not into that.’
Chinese-owned TikTok has almost nine million active users in the UK and a total of one billion users across the globe.
Snapchat has more than 21 million subscribers in Britain and almost 300 million daily users across the world, while Pinterest has more than ten million users in the UK and a global reach of almost half a billion.
After being alerted by the MoS, Telegram last week shut down Choudary’s channel but within days he had opened another called ‘Islam is the Answer’, on which he has written about sharia law.
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Choudary recently tried to set up a Twitter account but it was quickly banned for violating the site’s term of use
He has also appealed for his mentor, the cleric Omar Bakri Muhammad, to be released from prison in Lebanon.
Choudary opened a new Facebook account two weeks after the company closed down his first.
The page, which is called ‘A Call To Islam’, is described as a ‘personal blog’.
The father-of-four was banned from using the internet following his release from prison but his licence conditions expired at the end of July, leaving him free to preach online again.
Sam Armstrong, a director at the Henry Jackson Society think-tank, said: ‘It is appalling that Choudary is now using apps like TikTok to target youngsters.
‘It shows that he can access vulnerable young people and turn them into extremists.
‘He should not be allowed to use social media in this manner.’
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