British Imam: 'Sharia Is Coming to a Place Near You'

London Imam Anjem Choudary declared, “Sharia will be implemented in America, it’s coming,” and “Sharia is coming to a place near you” while defending the actions of ISIS on Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel.

Choudary reacted to the murder of journalist James Foley by saying, “If the Americans bomb and murder hundreds of thousands of people and they torture people and they continue to do so in Guantanamo Bay obviously this will have repercussions.”

He claimed that forced conversion of Christians by ISIS “didn’t happen.” He also denied the persecution of the Yazidis, stating “the Yazidis, whoever went to the mountain, went to the mountain even before the Islamic State came to the area. First of all they said there were 40,000 then they said there were 20,000 and then they went down, eventually they said there were a couple hundred and they were living in the mountains anyway in villages, so this is a complete pack of lies … the Christians are actually queuing up to come back into Mosul because they realized the life under the Sharia is much better than the Nouri al-Maliki regime.”

During a long section of the interview on Sharia Law, he refused to say if women would be punished by not dressing properly, and admitted that under Sharia, homosexuals would be punished.  He concluded, “Sharia is coming to a place near you,” and expressed his wish for a worldwide Islamic Caliphate.

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