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Imprisoning Anjem Choudary is a step forward, but we must dismantle entire network
BY HARAS RAFIQ
After decades of preaching hate on the streets of the U.K. and setting out to drive a wedge between Muslims and non-Muslims, Anjem Choudary has finally been arrested for supporting the Islamic State militant group (ISIS). Still, this symbolic victory over Islamism and hatred in the U.K. is just that—symbolic, and should not lull civil society into a sense of real progress in the battle against hatred. One man has been imprisoned, that is all. Choudary may have just been one man, but the damage he wrought to society in the U.K. has been done. He spent decades laying down the physical and digital infrastructure for Islamism to continue to metastasize throughout the U.K., and it is to this that ........
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