Videos Inspire Terror in UK

Brain-Washed by Terror Videos: Knife Waving Woman Attacks UK Politician - Now Jailed for Life

Earlier this year, Ms. Roshonara Choudhury attacked Mr. Stephen Timms, stabbing him in the stomach 2 times in the abdomen.
She struck out at Timms as he met with constituents at his office in a London suburb, she was wearing a black floor-length gown and a head covering that revealed only her eyes. She pulled out a knife and stabbed him twice in the stomach.

A 21 year old theology student, Roshonara Choudhury, had watched YouTube videos showing speeches of Anwar Al Awlaki, urging Muslims everywhere to join a worldwide war against the West. A transcript of her investigation published in the paper says, she admitted watching "hundreds of hours" of Awlaki's videos. Her motive, it says, was to 'punish' the legislator, Stephen Timms, because he voted in 2003 for Britain to be part of the invasion against Iraq. The young lady's attorney explained in court, Ms. Choudhury, defended from Bangladeshi parents, had been a 'moderate' Muslim of exemplary character and had no links to terrorist groups until after browsing militant Muslim websites.

Ms. Choudhury refused to attend the trial, saying she did not recognize the legitimacy of the British court system. But she appeared by video link from a prison in London for Wednesday’s sentencing, when the judge, Sir Jeremy Cooke, said that she would have to serve a minimum of 15 years before applying for parole. He described Ms. Choudhury as “an intelligent young woman who has absorbed immoral ideas and wrong patterns of thinking,” and added: “You do not suffer from any mental disease. You have simply committed evil acts coolly and deliberately.”