A sunday school teacher wangled the job so she could encourage young children to wage Jihad, the Old Bailey heard today.
Dzhamilya Timaeva, 19, even produced a colourful cartoon book called the ‘Little Muwahideen’, which glorified waging war against non-believers of Islam.
Prosecutors said Timaeva was the head teacher at the Windsor Muslim Association and was due to begin teaching classes at the Tawheed Islamic Education Centre, a Sunday school in Maidenhead.
She devised lesson plans and a curriculum for the children attending the Tawheed school.
Seventy of her books, which the court heard were ‘clearly designed for children’, were sent to her home address in Windsor, one mile away from Windsor Castle.
The court heard the books title Little Muwahideen is a term used by believers of Islam, who think Allah above all else should be worshipped.
Within the pages reference was made to the ‘duty’ of ‘waging of war for Islam’, the Old Bailey was told.
Prosecutor Gareth Weetman said: ‘This is a case about extremism. In simple terms, it is the prosecution case that Dzhamilya Timaeva, had extremist beliefs, and wanted to encourage others to share those beliefs.
‘The defendant saw it as her duty to teach these extremist beliefs to young children. In order to do so, she obtained a place as a teacher at an Islamic Sunday school.
‘It was not just a distant dream that the defendant would one day teach children, it was something she was putting into action.
‘Unquestionably by September 2022, the defendant was putting into place plans and was in fact teaching children.
‘This was all part of her plan to spread to others not just the furtherance of Islamic belief but that part of Islam is waging war against those who do not believe in Islam.’
Timaeva was arrested by police at Heathrow Airport at Terminal Two as she was about to board a flight to Turkey.
Officers seized her Apple iPhone 12 Pro and on it, jurors were told, there was a video on her Telegram account entitled: ‘Incite the believers’.
The footage encourages viewers to carry out attacks by fire against buildings, forests and agricultural land in the West.
The court also heard documents on the ‘permissibility of suicidal operations’ were found on her gadgets, as well as a note on her phone entitled: ‘The woman I want to be’ under which was written: ‘What motivates her? Promise of Allah that He will reward. Being the mother of the soldiers of Allah, the one who raised them and incited them to jihad.’
Mr Weetman added when police were reviewing her phone they found a number of video in support of ISIS, the Islamic deathcult which took over much of Syria and nothern Iraq.
Timaeva, who is on bail, denies disseminating terrorist documents and possessing a document for terrorist purposes between October 2022 and February 2023.
The trial will continue on Thursday.