From here:

Anjem Choudary – who praises Osama bin Laden and insists Islam will rule the world – has been invited to talk at a leading philosophy and music festival in Hay-on-Wye.

The former leader of the banned Islam4UK group is famous for planning to protest through the town of Wootton Bassett, where fallen British soldiers are honoured on their return from Afghanistan, and leading a prayer meeting to dead al-Qaeda leader bin Laden in London on Friday……

On its website, the festival says Choudary is “an outspoken advocate of Sharia law” and “a spokesperson for the group Islam4UK before it was banned by the Terrorism Act in 2010”.

Choudary advocates sharia law, a perniciously totalitarian mental and spiritual straightjacket that discourages listening to music and makes philosophy impossible because it disapproves of thinking. So it’s a bit odd that he has been invited to speak at a philosophy and music festival.

The Hay-on-Wye festival used to be a celebration of culture and civilisation: no more, it seems.

Many years ago, I lived in the Wye valley, a very pretty part of South Wales; at the time, the river was polluted with coal dust – a shame, but a more benign pollution than lunatic Islamists.