EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Jewish Journalist Arrested By London's Sadiq Khan's 'Hate Crime and Hate Speech' Police led by former Imam Emad Choudhury

In this RAIR exclusive interview, a Jewish British journalist who runs the website Fahrenheit211, which he uses also as his pseudonym, discusses his terrifying arrest that took place on October 23, 2019, 150 miles outside of Mayor Sadiq Khan’s London.

The ‘wrong think’ sharia unit led by Police Constable Emad Choudhury targeted Fahrenheit211 for allegedly creating memes mocking high profile leftist individuals, criticizing Islam and criticism of radical dangerous groups such as Tell Mama, “who are in receipt of vast amounts of public money, resources to which I and others do not consider them entitled to have.”

Fahrenheit211 had his door broken down, computer and other items confiscated, he was handcuffed and jailed by members of London mayor, Sadiq Khan’s ‘hate speech and hate crime’ team.

The arresting officer, Police Constable Choudhury is a former Imam who previously led prayers at a Birmingham mosque in Balsall Heath.

When Choudhury arrested Fahrenheit211 for ‘Malicious communication and racial and religious hatred’, he handcuffed and searched him while his little son looked on in horror. Not only was his little son violated but his wife was targeted,

The police then searched my property and took away all my IT equipment including phones in order to examine them to see if they were related to the ‘offense’ that I had been arrested for. They also took my wife’s computer which is more than little annoying as she needs this machine for her work.

Choudhury recently discussed in an interview his journey from imam to cop and how his faith inspired him to join the West Midlands Police;

“People ask me, what’s it like being a Muslim and a police officer? I tell them they aren’t separate things. They are intertwined. They are one. I can show my best character by going above and beyond as an officer and it’s no different from me being an upstanding Muslim. The same principles apply to both

While there is actual persecution in the form of excessive legal ramifications including imprisonment and character assassination based on perceived “Islamophobia”, pervasive antisemitism is “brushed under the carpet, ignored or not taken seriously” as will be proven in an upcoming documentary by Tommy Robinson.

FAHRENHEIT211 wrote an article detailing his arrest shortly after his ordeal;

“Before I begin this piece I would like to ask readers NOT to contact any of the individuals named in this article. This is because to do so could be construed as ‘Perverting the Course of Justice’ and that is in British law an offense. I respectfully request that you the reader do nothing that could be seen as ‘perverting justice’. As an aside, the information that I am sharing is not that much different from what Count Dankula shared when he was arrested for a bullshit ‘hate speech’ crime, so I do not believe that any of the information that I’m sharing is privileged in any way or that sharing it constitutes any offense.

And so the story begins…

On Tuesday the 22^nd October, at approximately 07:15, whilst I was getting my four year old child ready for school, there was a rather aggressive knock at my front door. I opened the door and found a whole bunch of police officers who wanted me to come out and ‘talk to them’. Knowing what the modern day British police are like in too many cases, which is thuggish and dishonest, I shut the door in their faces. The police do not turn up mob handed merely to have ‘a chat’. Instead I picked up the handset for my entryphone, which is remotely recorded, and spoke to the officer’s via that method.

I politely requested that they state the reason why they were at my front door and they said ‘we just want to talk’ and ‘you must come outside to speak’. They refused my request that I would speak to them via the window and insisted that I come out. Whilst this was going on I was watching what was happening on CCTV, the footage of which is now secured off site. I could see at least six police officers swarming around my front garden and to my back garden to which they had gained access. There were I observed, four officers in the front and two in the back.

The officer who appeared to be leading this mob of officers, kept saying ‘we want you to come outside so we can talk to you’. Of course I refused. This is because I know from other cases of a similar nature where the police have said this that this is a ruse to gain entry to a property so that they can later say that the occupier ‘invited’ them in. The lead officer, whom I later found out was PC Choudhury of Sidcup who is attached to Sadiq Khan’s ‘hate crime and hate speech’ unit, became ever more threatening and aggressive in his tone and refused to state exactly why he and the rest of the officers were there. He and the other officers kept shouting through the door that if I did not open the door then they would break it down. Because I did not want my son exposed to what the police were obviously going to do I sent him upstairs with my wife.

After about five minutes or so of these officers banging on the front door and issuing threats to break it down and officers menacingly patrolling my back garden, an officer, who at this point I cannot positively identify, brought up what looked like a battering ram. The officers were shouting through the door ‘we are going to break the door down now’.

As the officers said they would, they smashed the lock on my front door causing approximately £100 worth of damage. At least three officers, one of whom was PC Choudhury, rushed into the house and into the kitchen at the back of the house. PC Choudhury then cautioned me, arrested me for ‘Malicious communication and racial and religious hatred’ and put me in handcuffs. They guided me out into the front garden where they searched me and then put me in the back of a police van and took me to the local police station. Whilst I was being searched in the front garden my son escaped from his Mum and ran downstairs to the front door and say his daddy being searched and taken away by police. If I recall correctly I turned to my son and said to him ‘don’t worry, it will be all right, daddy loves you’. He’s been asking me ‘are the policemen going to come back again?’ I will never forgive or forget the trauma that these officers put my child through.

Before I was put in the police van I noticed that a considerable amount of police resources had been put into this arrest and there were at least two police cars present along with the van. I found out later that PC Choudhury and his Met Police civilian assistant, had traveled up the night before, distance of 150 miles and had stayed, at the taxpayers expense, in one of my city’s poshest hotels at a roughly estimated cost including meals of at least £150 per night. It’s good to know that Sadiq Khan’s ‘hate crime and hate speech’ unit is spending Londoners’ money so sensibly isn’t it? Maybe the Met has run out of real crime? Do I need a sarcasm sign here, no I don’t think so.

The police then searched my property and took away all my IT equipment including phones in order to examine them to see if they were related to the ‘offence’ that I had been arrested for. They also took my wife’s computer which is more than little annoying as she needs this machine for her work.

When we got to the police station I was booked in under the catch all and increasingly misused ‘malicious communication and racial and religious hatred’ acts, searched again and put in a cell. The custody sergeant, who incidentally said that I was one of the most polite detainees he had had in a long time, furnished me with paper copies of my rights whilst detained and a requested copy of the Bible, which I used in the cell to meditate upon Psalm 35, a psalm that was appropriate for this situation. I was removed from the cell, photographed, fingerprinted and had DNA taken. I was put back in the cell to await questioning and the arrival of the duty solicitor.

Before questioning by PC Choudhury I consulted with the duty solicitor, who luckily turned out to be far better than many who perform this function, and I told him that I was not going to answer any questions that the police put to me, as is my right. I also gave the police a written statement that I was merely exercising my right to speak freely. I was offered food but I refused on the grounds that the food is unlikely to be Kosher but I was offered and accepted hot drinks as there’s not much you can do to instant coffee that would make this item not Kosher, or Treyf.

Eventually I was brought, along with my solicitor, to an interview room for questioning under caution. I gave the officer my pre-prepared statement about speaking freely and the interview commenced. Of course I answered nearly all questions with ‘no comment’ and refused also to identify the vast majority of the items that the police alleged that they had removed from my home. The police also claimed that they had in possession written correspondence that they believed was between me and others who have challenged both Islam and ‘hate speech’ laws and certain organizations.

Although I did not answer any questions, the questions themselves gave me an inkling into what the arrest was all about. From what I could gather both Mr Mughal, who is the founder of the Tell Mama organization and London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan had complained about memes mocking them that the police allege they saw on the Fahrenheit211 website. They also asked me about an allegation made by Mr Mughal that I questioned the narrative surrounding the ‘punish a Muslim day’ case in which doubt was cast on the idea that this was the work of an organized group and rather, as it turned out, the work of a lone and deranged nutcase. The police asked me if I was an ‘Islamophobe’ to which I replied ‘no comment’. They also asked me to disclose my passcodes for the machines that they claimed they had seized to which I replied ‘no comment’

Incidentally, if you want further information about some of the criticisms that have been levelled against the Tell Mama organization and those involved in it along with the sad state of freedom of speech in the UK, then I can highly recommend that you read Nick Monroe’s article ‘Escape from Big Mother” It is an article that makes for illuminating and indeed frightening reading, especially for those who live in nations that, unlike the UK, have a greater respect for freedom of speech and freedom of expression. It should encourage those in places like the USA to hold on tight to their First Amendment, because without it the average citizen may suddenly find that there are a whole load of subjects that they may wish to discuss that are now ‘forbidden’.

I got the distinct impression that the police were trying to get me to make their job of prosecuting me for ‘hate speech’ easy by having me answer questions. This, knowing the parlous state of UK police forces, was not something that I was prepared to do. Basically, the Met are trying to prosecute me for memes and for criticism of those groups who are in receipt of vast amounts of public money, resources to which I and others do not consider them entitled to have.

After discovering that I was not going to answer any of the police’s questions, I was released at present without charge on unconditional bail pending investigation. I suspect that this case will go the way of many other similar cases of ‘malicious communication’ and ‘hate speech’ where the long drawn out process of investigation is the punishment or part of the punishment and also a way of intimidating those who engage in ‘wrongthink’.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the many people who have contacted me both privately and publicly to offer their support and those associates who have contacted various online ‘influencers’ in order to gain publicity not just for my case but also to support the cause of free speech in general. I have been truly heartened by those who have voiced their support and especially to those in the United States who are encouraging a letter writing campaign aimed at the British Embassy in Washington DC. I would also like to thank those (you know who you are) who have given me facilities to work ‘off site’ which is why I’m able to continue writing.

This case is likely to run and run, a bit like the West End play ‘The Mousetrap’, although hopefully not as long as that particular production. I have also been questioned by another government entity that has the misfortune to share initials with a security organisation that was operating in Germany between 1933 and 1945. This I believe is standard practise when a person who is arrested has children. But I have told this organisation the truth. That is that I am a centre rightist Jewish conservative who believes in equality between races, equality between men and women between different sexualities, along with civic nationalism, British values and who is not a member of any extreme party or political grouping. The last party that I was a member of was the Conservative Party who in no way could be called ‘extreme’ by any reasonable person.

This incident will not discourage me from standing up not just for the idea of freedom of speech, which includes freedom of speech for those with whom I vehemently disagree. I am also not discouraged in my view that ‘hate speech’ legislation has no place in a society that considers itself to be free as not only do ‘hate speech’ laws have a chilling effect on a citizen or subject’s speech, but also because they create a two tier system where one group is given virtually carte blanche to say what they want but others do not have this right. If I’m not fighting here, I will be fighting this fight elsewhere and I would encourage others to peacefully and politely protest against both the removal of free speech rights for Britons, but also the damaging and all too easily abused categories of ‘hate speech’ and ‘hate crime’ legislation. In these matters we should be treated as equals no matter what our skin colour or belief system, something that the plethora of ‘hate crime’ legislation does not do. I’m going to fight this case as hard as I possibly can, as it’s not just my fight, but the same fight as everyone who wants freedom of speech and the repeal of the increasingly hated ‘hate speech’ and ‘hate crime’ laws.

FAHRENHEIT211 wrote an another update to his original article;

It is nearly three weeks since I was arrested at my home near the Welsh border by PC Choudhury and officers from both the Metropolitan Police assisted by West Mercia Police. Since then I have heard nothing from them and neither have they returned the IT equipment that they seized from my home, some of which does not even belong to me.

I have taken some legal advice and part of that advice was to both gather evidence that challenges the police’s narrative and to also lock down and not edit my original account of the arrest even though there is an error in the timeline in this article. This is because for this particular article to be considered as contemporaneous by any future court, then it needs to remain unedited. The full and accurate timeline can be had from the CCTV which is linked to above. The gathering of evidence, some of which may indicate police wrongdoing is ongoing but I want to keep my powder dry regarding this matter for the moment.

This looks like it is going to go the way of many other similar ‘hate speech’ cases where the process of investigation and prosecution is a large part of the punishment. The usual way that these dubious ‘hate speech’ cases pan out is that the police leave the accused in the dark and on a hook sometimes for years whilst they pretend to investigate the issue concerned.

I have still not been charged despite three weeks elapsing and neither have I yet received any letter stating that I need to come in for a ‘voluntary’ interview with the police.

It should go without saying that I will vigorously fight this iffy arrest and the equally iffy political and communal forces behind it. However I’m fighting not just for myself, but also for the thousands of other Britons who have been persecuted by these ludicrous and unjust ‘hate speech’ laws. We all, even those with whom I vehemently disagree, need to be able to speak freely no matter who is ‘offended’ by what is said.”

RAIR Foundation USA will continue to keep you updated on this very important story.