Shahid Butt, a convicted terrorist jailed for his role in an armed Islamist plot, is now seeking election to Birmingham City Council in May.

According to GB News, Butt, 60, was sentenced to five years in prison in 1999 after being found guilty of planning terrorist attacks against the British consulate, an Anglican church, and a Swiss-owned hotel in Yemen. Prosecutors said the terrorist cell had been dispatched by Abu Hamza, the notorious Islamist preacher later jailed in the United States, whose son was among those convicted in the same case.

His current campaign slogan:

‘Muslims are not pacifists…if somebody comes into your face, you knock his teeth out. That’s my message to the youth.’