Exclusive: Mohammed Khalid, at 15, was the youngest person ever persecuted for terrorism offenses in the US. In his first interview since his release he talks about his new mission: fight extremism
The moment he was slammed against a wall by an FBI agent on the doorstep of his parents’ home and taken away in handcuffs, the distorted world Mohammed Khalid had constructed for himself came crashing down.
He was about to become notorious as the youngest person ever to be prosecuted for terrorism offences in the US and would be sentenced to five years in prison for his part in an online jihadist plot to kill an artist from Sweden who had drawn the head of the prophet Muhammad on the body of a dog.
The next person could be someone who is even younger than me. How to stop that from happening, that’s important to me
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I think the United States gives you that avenue, if you do make a mistake you have a chance to reinvent yourself
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