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Court jails Muslim cleric for nine years over fiery sermons.

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| March 07, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From Agence France Presse)

A court handed down a nine-year prison sentence to a Jamaican-born Muslim cleric whose fiery sermons called for the death of all those who do not believe in Islam.

Abdullah el-Faisal, 39, was convicted last month for stirring up racial hatred and soliciting murder, in the first prosecution of a Muslim cleric in Britain.

El-Faisal, a father of three from east London who converted to Islam when he was 16, denied inciting the murder of non-believers, Jews, Americans and Hindus.

But at his trial prosecutors played tape recordings in which he called for the death of non-believers and referred to training schoolboys …

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