Ahmad Thomson

Ahmad Thomson is a Rhodesian-born British barrister, writer and a member of the Islamic Murabitun movement.
Early life
He was born Martin Thomson in Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia. He was initially educated in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. After moving to the United Kingdom, he studied law at University of Exeter, being awarded the degree of Bachelor of Laws (with honours) in 1972. He converted to Islam at the hand of the Raja of Mahmudabad, the first director of the London Central Mosque, in London on 13 August 1973.
Career
Thomson was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1979. In 1993, he co-founded the Association of Muslim Lawyers and in 1994 he opened his own practice, Wynne Chambers, which advised on both English law and Shari'a law. In the following years, he authored books, including The Difficult Journey and The Way Back (1994); The Next World Order (1994); the revised editions of Jesus, Prophet of Islam and Blood on the Cross (in two volumes, For Christ's Sake and Islam in Andalus) with Muhammad Ata Ur-Rahim (1996); the revised edition of Dajjal: the AntiChrist (1997); Making History (1997); The Last Prophet (2000) and Golden Days on the Open Road (2005) The Telegraph once described him as an informal advisor to the Prime Minister of the UK on matters related to Muslims, although a government spokesperson neither confirmed nor denied it.
Thomson appeared in the first two Shariah TV series, broadcast on Channel 4 on 18 May 2004, on 25 May 2004 and in April 2005. He also participated in The Muslim Jesus and Celebrity Lives Sharia Style.
Controversies
In 2005 The Guardian and The Telegraph wrote that Thomson was spreading conspiracy theories related to New World Order as well as supporting Holocaust denial in his 1994 book The Next World Order. The Telegraph attributed to Thomson a belief he shared with some members of government leadership that Saddam Hussein was used as a U.S. excuse for its troops, "including thousands of Jews," to occupy Saudi Arabia.<ref name="telegraph.co.uk" />

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