A MUSLIM leader in Bradford last night urged vigilance against the "misguided propaganda by the forces of terror" after a teenager indoctrinated with "chilling" extremist views was jailed for plotting to go to Syria to fight for Islamic State.

Syed Choudhury, 19, who was raised in Bradford, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey last month to preparing acts of terrorism before his arrest in December 2014.

The court heard he researched online how to get to Syria and the only reason he had not left was he could not find anyone he trusted to go with.

The court heard he had been radicalised by people he regarded as elders after he left home in Bradford to study in Cardiff.

His extreme views were revealed when he ranted to officers about Sharia law saying he wanted to be the one to bring it to the UK while in custody.

Jailing him at the Old Bailey yesterday for three years and four months, Judge Peter Rook QC, said: "The bluntness of what you said on that occasion is chilling. It reveals your dangerousness.

"However I do accept you are immature. You are impressionable to indoctrination."

Judge Rook said Choudhury would spend half his sentence in a young offender institution, and in line with new legislation, he would have an extra year on licence.

He told the teenager that he continued to regard him as a risk to the public, adding: "I cannot disregard what you said earlier and how you are an impressionable, immature person susceptible to radicalisation."

Choudhury's extreme religious views first surfaced in 2012 when he began a course in business administration, IT, key skills and car mechanics at Cardiff and Vale College.

He was heard to say gay people should be killed and they would go to hell.

As part of an IT project, he made a poster reading Islam Will Dominate The World Freedom Can Go To Hell.

In May 2013, Choudhury left college with qualifications at a level below GCSE and went to Bangladesh for a few months before returning to Cardiff where he stayed with an aunt and uncle.

He had saved about £3,000 from working in a fast food restaurant and other unskilled jobs so he did have the means to carry out his wish of going to Syria, prosecutor Sarah Whitehouse QC said.

In 2014, he came to the attention of anti-radicalisation group Prevent after he attended a demonstration about the Gaza conflict brandishing a banner stating Islamic State will bring peace to the Middle East.

But he became angry and aggressive and rebuffed their approaches, the court heard.

He went on to search the Internet for topics including ten reasons to join Isis, Turkey Travel, Jihadist Highway and How To Travel To Syria These Days.

And he networked on Twitter for advice on how to join Isis in Syria.

He continued to download extremist material including the image of Jihadi John before he beheaded a Western hostage.

Choudhury had moved to a bedsit in Allerton Street in Cardiff by the time he was arrested on December 4.

The court heard Choudhury had an unhappy start in life. His mother was a British citizen and his father was Bangladeshi and had never lived in the UK.

When his mother abandoned him days after his birth, he was brought up by relatives in Bradford.

After the case, Mohammed Rafiq Sehgal, the president of Bradford Council for Mosques, said, “We are again reminded by this case of our responsibility to remain vigilant of the misguided propaganda by the forces of terror.

"We need to see beyond the false utopia like image projected by the groups such as IS. The actual reality is something very different.

“Islam is used as bait by the terrorist organisations to influence and lure vulnerable minds to their cause. Hence, there is an added responsibility on the British Islamic academia and institutions to unpack and bring to forth the true values of Islam in contemporary Britain.”