British pharmacist showed Isis beheading video to child and claimed they were 'not bad people'
Zameer Ghumra is convicted of disseminating 'terrorist propaganda'
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Your support makes all the difference.A pharmacist who claimed Islamic State were “not bad people” has been convicted of showing a beheading video to a young child.
Zameer Ghumra “brainwashed” two primary school-age youngsters, instructing them to not have non-Muslim friends and asking if they wanted to join the terrorist group or help recruit others to its ranks.
The 38-year-old was found guilty by a jury of eight men and four women at Nottingham Crown Court on Thursday of disseminating “terrorist propaganda” in the form of a graphic Twitter video on his mobile phone between January 2013 and September 2014.
Speaking afterwards, Sue Hemming of the Crown Prosecution Service said: "Zameer Ghumra tried to brainwash impressionable children with this violent ideology by making one watch beheading videos and urging them both to adopt a hard-line religious outlook.
"The CPS case was that he intended to radicalise them in the hope that they would go on to be involved in terrorism.
"The children were brave to give evidence and we would like to thank them for helping to secure this conviction of a dangerous man."
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