Teen wanted to teach extremist beliefs, court told

A teenager gained a place at an Islamic Sunday school in order to teach her "extremist" beliefs to young children, a court has heard.

Dzhamilya Timaeva, 19, from Windsor, saw it as a "duty" of her Islamic faith to "wage war against non-believers", it is alleged.

She is on trial at the Old Bailey charged with four counts of disseminating terrorist publications and one count of possessing a document for terrorist purposes.

Prosecutor Gareth Weetman said she arranged for copies of a booklet called The Little Muwahideen to be printed.

The book had a "colourful, cartoon" style, but included sections dedicated to the waging of war for Islam and defined jihad as "obligatory fighting" for Allah, the court heard.

The book also had a section referring to "Hatred for the sake of Allah".

"It is not just about teaching the basics of Islam but indoctrinating young minds," said Mr Weetman.

He said police found the defendant had drawn up a list of planned lessons, starting in September 2022, referencing pages of the Muwahideen book she would refer children to.

She had also sent a draft curriculum to the chair of the Tawheed Islamic Education Centre in Maidenhead, which provided weekend classes for children.

"It follows this wasn't a distant dream of the defendant to teach young children the extremist and intolerant notions in this book," Mr Weetman said.

"She had printed it and arranged to attend classes to do so."

The prosecutor said this was not the only location where Ms Timaeva was seeking to teach young children - in March 2023 an investigating officer found her name listed as a teacher for the Windsor Muslim Association.

Jurors were also shown an ISIS video entitled "Incite the Believers" recovered by police from the defendant's mobile phone in October 2022.

The video calls for jihad and encourages the viewer to carry out attacks by using fire "by burning buildings, forests and agricultural land".

Also found on the defendant's phone were notes written under the title of "Permissibility of Suicidal Operations", the court heard.

Jurors were told another note was called: "The woman I want to be/Ideal version of myself" which referred to "being the mother of the soldiers of Allah... the one who raised them and incited them to jihad."

The prosecution suggested the notes provided an important insight into "how extremist" the defendant's mindset was by 2022.

The trial, which is due to last four weeks, continues.

The defendant denies the charges.

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