Omar Brooks
Other names: Abu Izzadeen/(b. Trevor Richard Brooks)
Current Status: Imprisoned
Biography
Omar Brooks is a British radical Islamist extremist and propagandist who has been charged and imprisoned over his support for terrorist groups. Having converted at age 17, Brooks was radicalised at the Finsbury Park Mosque where he met Omar Bakri Mohammad - a high-profile British Islamist who played an instrumental role in leading HT Britain. Brooks has been imprisoned multiple times in the UK on charges related to inciting terrorism, praising terrorist attacks, and encouraging armed militancy against non-Muslims. He was arrested in 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014, and 2015.
Although arrested for charges relating to incitement as far back as 2004, Brooks was re-arrested multiple times due to breaking certain restrictions placed on his arrest, including for leaving the UK. His imprisonment, however, has not stopped him from further disseminating his extremist views and inciting others towards acts of faith-based violence and militancy. A case in point is the close personal relationship that was developed between Brooks and Khairi Saadallah in prison. Saadallah was the perpetrator of the Reading park stabbing in June 2020, who killed three people in a religious-based attack.
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Evidence of Hate Speech/Incitement:
July 2015: During a live press conference regarding arrests of extremists in London by the British Home Secretary at the time, John Reid, Brooks- who was present at the conference - shouted at Reid, telling him “You are a tyrant, you are an enemy to Islam and Muslims, shame on all of us for sitting down and listening to him."
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