Mizanur Rahman

For the Bangledeshi cricketer of the same name, see Mizanur Rahman (cricketer).

Mizanur Rahman is a British Islamic activist, born around 1983. He was educated at Enfield Grammar School and Barnet College.^[1] He was released from jail on 7 November 2008.^[2]

He participated in the Islamist demonstration outside the Danish Embassy in London in 2006, where he prayed "Oh Allah, we want to see another 9/11 in Iraq, another 9/11 in Denmark, another 9/11 in Spain, in France, all over Europe. Oh Allah, destroy all of them." ^[3] On November 9, 2006, he was found guilty of inciting racial hatred.^[4] The jury could not reach a verdict on the charge of soliciting murder. The Crown indicated it would seek a retrial.^[5] At his retrial in 2007, he was additionally convicted on the solicitation to murder, and sentenced to six years in prison. This sentence was then reduced to four years on appeal in October 2008. During his trial, the prosecution asserted that he, while not being a member of any organisation, was soliciting unknown person(s) to murder other unknown person(s) from among the serving American occupying forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Since completing his four-year sentence at the end of 2010, Mizanur Rahman immediately began to continue his Islamist activities around the UK and on the Internet, actively calling for the laws in Britain to be changed to the Islamic Shari'ah as an Islamic Khilafah state.^[6]

Mizanur Rahman claims that many Muslim prisoners in the UK are being illegally detained, unfairly treated and abused and speaks about 'crimes' committed by prison officials in Belmarsh prison in talks and internet addresses made after his release from prison.^[7]

He has also made claims that his arrest was driven by a media campaign and that it is a challenge to and an "exposition freedom of speech" in an interview about his imprisonment.^[8]

In November 2010, immediately after completing his four-year prison sentence, he was interviewed by Rageh Omar for a BBC2 series on the life of Muhammad; he was asked about Jihad and violence about the insurgencies around the world against western forces. He stated in the interview that "violence can be praiseworthy and can be dispraised".^[9]

References and notes

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ Protester 'called for beheadings'
3. ^ Muslim 'wanted new 9/11' The Sun 04 November 2006
4. ^ Cartoons protester found guilty, BBC, 9 November 2006
5. ^ Man guilty of inciting race hate at protest
6. ^ Abu Baraa aka Mizanur Rahman biography and lectures
7. ^ Audio lecture about mistreatment of Muslim prisoners in Belmarsh by Mizanur Rahman
8. ^ UK Islamist Convicted of Soliciting Murder - Interview
9. ^ BBC2's Rageh Omar interviews Abu Muwahhid & Mizanur Rahman

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Name	Rahman, Mizanur
Alternative names	Abu Baraa
Short description
Date of birth	1983
Place of birth	London
Date of death
Place of death