Four years for mosque leader who ranted ‘Jihad, Jihad, Jihad!’

The father of two brothers who were killed while fighting in Syria was jailed for at least four years today (thurs) for promoting extremist violence in his sermons. Abubaker Deghayes, 54, made a stabbing motion with his hands and preached that ‘Jihad was compulsory’ to his 50-strong congregation, including children, at the Brighton Mosque. In his 20-minute speech on November 1, 2020, Deghayes, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 1991, said: ‘There is no god but Allah. ‘Allah is…