Books are terrorist material now?

It seems like, judging from the press reports on the conviction of the socalled “lyrical terrorist, in real life a not too bright 23 year old woman working in a WH Smiths at Heathrow:

In a box file in the family lounge was a printed version of the “declaration of war” by Osama bin Laden.

One of Malik’s poems, entitled The Living Martyrs, said: “Let us make Jihad/ Move to the front line/
To chop chop head of kuffar swine”.

A second poem was called How to Behead. “It’s not as messy or as hard as some may think/ It’s all about the flow of the wrist,” it read.

The Mujaheddin Poisoner’s Handbook, Encyclopaedia Jihad, How To Win In Hand To Hand Combat, and How To Make Bombs and Sniper Manual were found on her computer.

The court heard Malik joined an extremist organisation called Jihad Way, set up explicitly to disseminate terrorist propaganda and support for al Qaida.

Jonathan Sharp, prosecuting, said she was an “unlikely” but “committed” Islamic extremist: “She had a library of material that she had collected for terrorist purposes. That collection would be extremely useful for someone planning terrorist activity.”

Do something for me, willya? Just put these titles mentioned above in Google and see what comes up? Take “How To Make Bombs” for example: quite a few hits there. That’s because this whole conviction is utter bollocks, in which this confused young woman who gets just a bit too involved in playing muhajedin is just
railroaded as an example of how tough British justice is on terrorism. This doesn’t make the country any safer.