Abu izzadeen biography definition
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Profile: Abu Izzadeen
Abu Izzadeen has a history of making controversial comments |
BBC News looks at the life of radical Muslim preacher Abu Izzadeen, who has been convicted of terrorist fund-raising and inciting terrorism overseas.
Islamist activist Abu Izzadeen was born in Hackney, east London, to Jamaican parents who arrived in the UK in the early 1960s.
Born a Christian, with the name Omar Brooks, he converted to Islam at the age of 17.
The preacher told the jury at his trial that he had a tough childhood in "the most deprived borough in London".
Abu izzadeen biography definition
Izzadeen has three children between the ages of two and nine after marrying his wife at the age of 22.
He trained and worked as a BT technician, but stopped working to spend more time speaking at mosques and went on to become a member of the now banned al Muhajiroun group.
The 32-year-old, from Leytonstone, east London, came to prominence when he interrupted a speech by John Reid, the then home secretary