‘If you choose to live in this country, you live by its rules’, says judge as she jails Muslim extremists for arson attack on publisher’s home

A fanatic who once paraded his baby in an ‘I love al-Quaeda’ hat was today jailed for firebombing the home of the publisher of a novel about Mohammed.

Ali Beheshti, 41, a follower of hate cleric Abu Hamza, poured diesel through the letterbox of the 2.5million house and set it alight to ‘punish’ owner Martin Rynja.

The attack came weeks before Mr Rynja’s publishing company was due to release The Jewel of Medina, a fictional account of the Prophet’s child bride.
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Today a judge told the extremist and his two accomplices as she sentenced them each to four-and-a-half years: ‘If you choose to live in this country, you live by its rules.’