Maktabah Publications
Socorro Henson
Birmingham-raised Ahmed Faraz, 33 - who counted high-profile terrorists including July 7 bomb plot leader Mohammed Sidique Khan among his customers - was convicted of 11 counts of possessing and disseminating terrorist publications in 2011.
Court of Appeal judges have now ruled the prosecution should not have been allowed to rely on the presence of the books in terrorists' homes, when there was no suggestion the texts had actually encouraged them to carry out acts of extremism.
Father-of-five Faraz, who operated out of the Maktabah Islamic bookshop in Birmingham, had been sentenced to three years in prison for publishing radical texts and violent DVDs and distributing them globally in an effort to 'prime people for terrorism'.
Faraz, who has a degree in Islamic theology from the University of Birmingham, also circulated books written by Abdullah Azzam, a highly influential scholar who preached jihad and mentored Osama bin Laden.
Maktaba al-Bushra is an Islamic publication. It includes the Holy Quran and its translations, books related to Dars-e-Nizami, and myriad Islamic works. Their publications are not merely confined to English and Urdu, in fact they have published books written in Arabic, Spanish, German, French etc. All these works highlight different aspects of sacred learning and have been penned by genuine and enlightened Muslim scholars.
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