'I’d go tomorrow' Hate cleric Anjem Choudary wants to leave UK and move to Islamic State

RADICAL hate preacher Anjem Choudary wants to leave Britain and move to the so-called Islamic State, it was claimed yesterday.

Anjem Choudary has said he wants to live in the Islamic StateAnjem Choudary has said he wants to live in the Islamic State[PA]

The notorious cleric claims he’d jump at the chance to go and live under Sharia Law in Syria or Iraq.

“I’d go tomorrow. I’d love to bring my children up there,” he told us – just days before last night’s successful pounding by US-led coalition aircraft of the flashpoint Kurdish town of Kobani in Syria,” he said in a Sunday newspaper interview.

But the benefit claiming British citizen would first have to give up the State aid he gets towards his brood’s upkeep.

Choudary is currently on bail after being arrested with eight others last month on suspicion of encouraging terrorism and being a member of a proscribed organisation, or supporting a proscribed organisation.

The trained lawyer, whose passport was seized, has always denied inciting or glorifying acts of terrorism.

He said: “Everybody gets about $500 a month free of charge, no questions asked. Iraq and Syria can afford it as they have oil.

"You’re given free food, clothing and shelter. You get a free house and electricity, gas and water. You also get income support.”

Choudary, who was brought up in Britain to Pakistani parents, added: “I mean you don’t even get housing free of charge here. It’s a much better society there. Alcohol, gambling, pornography and drugs, are completely eradicated.”

Choudary, who condemned US ­airstrikes against Isis before his arrest, went on: “A huge number of people from Britain want to go over there.”

And he mocked British traditions to rationalise how he does not belong here.

“What is Britishness? Eating fish and chips? Standing in a queue? Singing God save the Queen?

“If that is Britishness then no, I’m not British. I have no affiliation to the ­monarchy or the laws of this land.

“If you’re born in a barn it doesn’t make you a horse. A British passport is just a common document. It’s like a bus ticket to me.

“I don’t affiliate with things like ­democracy and freedom. My set of values and principles arise from Islam.”

But the married preacher said he was unsure if he would be allowed to leave even if his passport is returned.

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