IS supporting teacher is ‘not a bloodthirsty person’

  A teacher accused of planning terror attacks across London admitted showing pupils IS videos because it was important to ‘look at the good side of people as well as their bad side’. Umar Ahmed Haque, 25, allegedly plotted atrocities at Heathrow Airport, embassies and other London landmarks after becoming ‘obsessed’ with the Westminster Bridge attack last March. Haque, who taught at the Lantern of Knowledge Islamic private school in Leyton, east London, said that he only planned ‘the ideal…