Poet as terrorist?
‘Lyrical terrorist’ sentenced over extremist poetry
A 23-year-old former Heathrow shop assistant who called herself the “lyrical terrorist” and scrawled her extremist thoughts on till receipts has been handed a nine-month suspended jail sentence.
Samina Malik became the first woman convicted under new terrorism legislation after writing poems entitled How To Behead and The Living Martyrs.
Malik, described as an “unlikely but committed” Islamic extremist, was last month convicted by an jury at the Old Bailey of a charge under the 2000 Terrorism Act.</em>
Feel safer, Brits? Rest a bit easier that words aren’t going to be around to haunt you? Oh, the “terror” of a thought.
