{"id":1426026,"date":"2022-04-08T16:14:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T20:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1426026"},"modified":"2022-04-08T16:14:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T20:14:59","slug":"man-accused-of-murdering-sir-david-amess-says-he-killed-british-politician-to-help-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-accused-of-murdering-sir-david-amess-says-he-killed-british-politician-to-help-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Accused of Murdering Sir David Amess Says He Killed British Politician to &#039;Help Muslims&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fman-accused-of-murdering-sir-david-amess-says-he-killed-british-politician-to-help-muslims%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1426026&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The suspected terrorist accused of murdering Sir David Amess told the court at the Old Bailey that he killed the Conservative Member of Parliament for voting in favour of air strikes in Syria and to \u201chelp Muslims\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Harbi Ali, 26, told jurors that he is a \u201cmoderate Muslim\u201d but that he had no regrets for killing veteran lawmaker Sir David Amess during a public meeting in Leigh-on-Sea Church in Essex last October because he thought it would \u201chelp\u201d Muslims in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIf I thought I did anything wrong, I wouldn\u2019t have done it,\u201d Harbi Ali said,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-essex-60996062?at_custom3=%40BBCNews&#038;at_campaign=64&#038;at_custom4=631BC642-B66A-11EC-91CD-83EC923C408C&#038;at_custom2=twitter&#038;at_medium=custom7&#038;at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D\">according<\/a> to the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Sir David] voted previously in Parliament, not just him\u2026 I decided if I couldn\u2019t make hijrah, if I couldn\u2019t help the Muslims [in Syria], I would do something here,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>While he previously admitted that the attack was terrorist in nature, Ali Harbi Ali retracted the characterisation, saying that if his actions were considered terrorism, then he would \u201cexpect the British politicians who bombed Syria to use that word on themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Harbi Ali did admit that he expected to be shot and killed as a Muslim \u201cmartyr\u201d after killing Amess. Yet when two police officers entered the building without weapons, he dropped his knife.<\/p>\n<p>He has also admitted that he \u201cdeeply\u201d regretted not travelling to Syria between 2015 and 2017 to join and fight with the Islamic State, but that it was too \u201cdifficult\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought if I couldn\u2019t go join Islamic State, I should try and do something here to help Muslims here,\u201d he said. \u201cAs a Muslim, I was obligated to do something during that period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ali Harbi Ali said that he targeted Sir David Amess so \u201che can\u2019t vote again\u2026 so hopefully, he won\u2019t be able to harm Muslims in that regard,\u201d after the Conservative MP voted in favour of air strikes in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, Harbi Ali said that he had a \u201cbig problem\u201d with Sir David\u2019s membership in the Conservative Friends of Israel group.<\/p>\n<p>The accused went on to say that he hoped his actions would have a chilling effect on other British politicians, telling the court: \u201cIf he had previous for doing votes like that he won\u2019t do it in the future, and perhaps send a message to his colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The court previously heard that Harbi Ali also had plans to attack government minister Michael Gove, as he believed the Conservative politician was \u201csomeone who was a harm to Muslims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The trial continues. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suspected terrorist accused of murdering Sir David Amess told the court at the Old Bailey that he killed the Conservative Member of Parliament for voting in favour of air<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}