An alternative view is that HT has made an ideological shift and that the UK government has " achieved a considerable measure of success " in pressuring the party to moderate and pragmatise its approach . According to university lecturer Noman Hanif , arguing circa 2006 , " the threat of proscription " under Anti-Terrorism legislation and the help of " compliant " former HT members " in the media " , has led to HT 's modifying its principle of " democracy is Kufr ( non-Islamic ) " . In the May 2006 local election in the UK , the party did not call on its members to refrain from voting . ( However , in later 2010 and 2015 Elections HT Britain did declare voting '' haram '' / forbidden . ) According to Michael Whine , a " partial list " of " terrorists who were also HT members and/or influenced by its teachings " in Britain includes : Faisal Moustafa , Shafihur Rehman and Iftikar Sattar , who in 1995 were arrested and charged with conspiring to assassinate the Israeli ambassador , were reported to have been in possession of HT literature and to have helped organize HT meetings in Manchester . ( Moustafa was again arrested in November 2000 , but acquitted of terrorism charges — though his co-defendant , Moinul Abedin , was sentenced to twenty years ) . Omar Khan Sharif and Asif Hanif , the Mike 's Place suicide bombers , had contact with HT before moving on to more extreme organisations . Mohammad Babar , who is linked to the seven men currently on trial in London on charges of planning terrorist attacks between January 2003 and April 2004 , has stated that he was a member of HT while in college . Imam Ramee , an American , spoke on behalf of HT while living in Manchester , and was the featured speaker at the HT organized Muslim Unity Action March against the war in Iraq on March 15 , 2003 . He was reportedly an associate of Abu Hamza , and is said to have preached to " shoe bomber " Richard Reid , along with Hanif and Sharif , at the North London Mosque in Finsbury Park . On at least two occasions , political leaders in the UK have announced plans to proscribe HT for extremism
Mike 's Place suicide bombers
Mike's Place suicide bombing
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