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| Support for two extremist groups - Minbar Ansar Deen and Boko Haram - is to be made a criminal offence in the UK. | Support for two extremist groups - Minbar Ansar Deen and Boko Haram - is to be made a criminal offence in the UK. |
| Home Secretary Theresa May has asked for the two radical Islamist organisations to be banned under terrorism laws. | |
| If approved by parliament, both will be banned from operating in the UK from Friday, the Home Office said. | |
| Minbar Ansar Deen is based in the UK, while Boko Haram operates from Nigeria. | |
| Minbar Ansar Deen - also known as Ansar al-Sharia UK - promotes terrorism by distributing content through a forum on its website, which encourages individuals to travel overseas to engage in extremist activity, specifically fighting, according to the Home Office. | |
| Boko Haram is a militant Islamist group based in Nigeria. Its name means "Western education is forbidden" and it has waged an insurgency for more than a decade. | |
| If the groups are banned, it will be illegal to support or become a member of either group. | |
| The move would also give the police powers to tackle any UK-based support for Boko Haram. |