{"id":59949,"date":"2018-03-03T06:04:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T06:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=59949"},"modified":"2018-03-03T06:04:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T06:04:31","slug":"british-teacher-convicted-of-trying-to-recruit-children-for-an-isis-inspired-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/british-teacher-convicted-of-trying-to-recruit-children-for-an-isis-inspired-army.html","title":{"rendered":"British teacher convicted of trying to recruit children for an ISIS-inspired &#8216;army&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">British teacher convicted of trying to recruit children for an ISIS-inspired &#8216;army&#8217;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">A British teacher was convicted Friday of trying to recruit students to carry out Islamic State-inspired attacks across London.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Umar Haque, 25, was accused of radicalizing children at two schools and a mosque, making them re-enact deadly attacks on London and role-play attacks on police officers; he even exposed the children to gruesome videos of beheadings, Reuters reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Prosecutors said that Haque \u201cwas fascinated by the warped and extreme ideology of ISIS.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Metropolitan Police Counterterrorism Cmdr. 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