By Tommy Hansen
COPENHAGEN
Danish Moroccan Sam Mansour is facing up to six years in jail after being convicted in Denmark of inciting terrorism by posting material on the internet regarded to be supportive to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
The 54-year-old, dubbed the Bookseller from Brønshøj during an earlier trial, was also convicted at a court in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, on Thursday of racism over threats made against Jews and his encouragement of killing.
Mansour is expected to be sentenced later on Thursday when the court will also rule on the prosecutor's call to withdraw his Danish citizenship.
Formerly known as Said Mansour, he admitted posting material on Facebook and via e-mail during the trial, in which prosecutors dubbed him "al-Qaeda's man in Denmark", but had pleaded not guilty to charges of propagating terror, saying he had only been exercising his right to free speech.
His lawyer had argued that Adolf Hitler's ”Mein Kampf” had been published in Danish without the publisher being prosecuted.
Death threats
Mansour was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in jail in 2007 for distributing cd-roms and dvds with "terror-related" content.
But prosecutors said he continued to publish terrorist propaganda via books and social media, which led to his arrest in Feb. 2014.
Mansour was also convicted on Thursday of issuing death threats against two Danes, Morten Storm and Kurt Westergaard.
Westergaard is a Danish cartoonist who in 2005 created the controversial cartoon in Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten of the Islamic prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb in his turban.
Morten Storm is a former Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) agent who worked in militant Islamic groups.
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