And anyone who raised any suspicion about Abdul Hussain would have been excoriated as a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe,” and suffered professional and possibly personal ruin.

“Curry house boss, 41, ‘hoarded ISIS execution videos in his Spice Island restaurant and kept terror manual on how to become a sleeper agent living double life in the West,'” by Danyal Hussain, Mailonline, October 22, 2019:

A curry house boss hoarded ISIS execution videos and kept a terrorist handbook on how to be a secret agent living a double life in the West, a court has heard.

Abdul Hussain, 41, allegedly stored extremist handbooks including ‘How to Survive in the West’ and ‘Miracles in Syria’ on hard drives at his flat in Torquay, Devon.

The books were packed with instructions on making bombs, handling weapons, avoiding detection, and ways of travelling to ISIS controlled territory to take part in fighting.

Police found videos of ‘extremely savage and disturbing’ public beheadings and conspiracy theories denying the Westminster terror attack when they searched Hussain’s Spice Island restaurant in Exeter on November 16, 2017.

Some of the videos showed executions carried out by children.

They also uncovered manuals detailing how to ‘activate jihad at the right time’ in a search at Hussain’s home address on July 17, 2018, the Old Bailey heard.

Hussain claimed he was simply a ‘researcher’ with a curiosity about ISIS when he was arrested and interviewed by police, the court heard.

He added that he had wanted to make a documentary, but police found no evidence of this.

Officers had become suspicious of Hussain in November 2017 when they carried out a drugs raid on his restaurant.

However, instead of drugs, they discovered hard drives with the extreme videos on them.

Paul Raudnitz, prosecuting said: ‘This case is about the possession of documents containing information useful for terrorist purposes.

‘On 17 July 2018, police officers went to the defendant’s address in St Marychurch Road, Torquay, in Devon….

‘There were a very large number of documents relating to the Syrian conflict, the Iraq war, ISIS, jihad and terrorism. These included a number of pro-ISIS publications, such as ISIS online magazines and e-books.

‘There were also a large number of video files relating to ISIS and terrorism, including a number portraying disturbing scenes of ISIS fighters training; fighting; public, sometimes extremely savage, executions; and violence.

‘Disturbing and extreme though this material is, its possession is not illegal.

‘In a different category however, were two further files which were also recovered.

‘One of these files was called ‘How to Survive in the West – A Mujahid Guide. The second of the files was called ‘Miracles in Syria’.

‘The prosecution say that these two items were in a wholly different category from all the other material, because both ‘How to Survive in the West’ and ‘Miracles in Syria’ contained information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.

”’How to Survive in the West” was, in essence, a compendium of information of assistance to a terrorist.

‘It purported to teach how to be a secret agent living a double and how to become a ‘sleeper-cell’ which ‘activates at the right time’ to jihad when needed.

‘The document provided information on how to hide an extremist identity and gave tips on physical training, self-defence techniques and target practice.

‘Most significantly, it also gave details about weapons, survival techniques, bomb-making and transporting weapons.

‘Miracles in Syria’ was an essentially propagandist publication, describing the presence of various miraculous events amongst those fighting against the Assad regime in Syria.

‘It also contained however, a number of features likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, in particular it described how to travel to, and enter, parts of Syria under the control of Islamic rebels for the purposes of joining with ISIS units there….