Crackdown ... hate cleric Anjem Choudary is set to lose almost £26k in state giveaways
Any claimant whose behaviour is ruled to be deeply offensive or harmful to society would be stripped of their handouts under a new law planned by ministers.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith’s move is aimed at extremists like Choudary — and hate preacher Abu Qatada, who is fighting deportation.
IDS met Home Secretary Theresa May yesterday to plot a joint approach.
Choudary scoops up nearly £26,000 in state giveaways a year — leading to accusations British taxpayers are being forced to fund terrorism.
A source said: “Iain and Theresa have been bothered about the likes of Choudary spewing his bile while taking whatever he wants from the state for some while.
But the terrible events in Woolwich have given them fresh impetus to sort out this mess.”
Choudary said murder
d soldier Lee Rigby will “burn in hell” and suspect Michael Adebolajo was a “nice man”.
The ex-lawyer, 46, yesterday goaded the police as he boasted of preaching hate without law-breaking.
He taunted top Scotland Yard cop Cressida Dick after she said he uses his legal training to avoid over-stepping the mark.
Call for cops to take action ... hate cleric Anjem Choudary
He wrote on Twitter: “Perhaps she’d be happier if no one knew the law?” But one of his followers was last night charged with inciting terrorism in an online lecture and text.
Shah Jalal Hussein, 30, who was arrested in a raid on his East London home earlier, was in a now banned organisation which Choudary helped lead and shared a platform with him at an extremist rally.
Hussein posted comments online about Drummer Rigby’s killing but his arrest was not connected to that.
Also on the platform was Ibrahim Hassan, 31 — charged last week with inciting terrorism.
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