Samina Malik, the self-proclaimed 'lyrical terrorist' who posted poems supporting al-Qaeda on her website, has been given a nine-month suspended prison sentence under the 2000 Terrorism Act.
Malik, who worked at Heathrow Airport, once wrote on a social networking website that her favourite past-times included "watching videos by my Muslim brothers in Iraq, yep the beheading ones, watching video messages by Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri and other videos which show massacres of the kaffirs."
The court also heard she had written on the back of a WH Smith till receipt: "The desire within me increases every day to go for martyrdom."
Malik told the jury she only adopted her "Lyrical Terrorist" nickname because she thought it was "cool" and insisted she was not a terrorist.
The judge Peter Beaumont QC, said Malik's actions were "on the margin" on what could be legally defined as terrorism:
"The Terrorism Act and the restrictions it imposes on personal freedom exist to protect this country, its interest here and abroad, its citizens and those who visit here.
"Its protection embraces us all, its restrictions apply to us all whatever our personal, religious or political beliefs.
"In my judgement your offence is on the margin of what this crime concerns."