British hate preacher Mizanur Rahman’s sick sermon backing jihadists hours after the Paris bloodbath could be a driving force for further killings, an expert has warned.

In a speech to a London audience, and streamed online to thousands of followers, Rahman ranted “Britain is the enemy of Islam” and defended the slaughter of the 12 Charlie Hebdo victims.

He later said: “Insulting Islam... they can’t expect a different result.”

And one of his most loyal British disciples, London chef Abdullah Zobear, warned anyone who followed the slain Charlie Hebdo cartoonists by disrespecting Islam should face “the same consequence”.

Rahman, who uses the alias Abu Baraa, also praised al-Qaeda in the lecture broadcast worldwide and made a joke about a plane crash, to roars of laughter from his followers.

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Rahman has previous convictions for inciting racial hatred and solicitation to murder.

He was jailed for six years between 2007 and 2010 for calling for the killing of UK troops in Iraq. His sentence was reduced to four on appeal.

He tells followers in the video: “Clearly what happened in France is a war. These cartoons is part of their own war, is part of the pyschological warfare.

"You can’t have that attitude. You know what happens when you insult Muhammad.”

He claimed France was carrying out “ethnic cleansing”. Later, in an interview on an Islamic radio station broadcast, Rahman warned further lives could be at risk.

He said: “The approach of France is not one of equality, freedom and liberty, it’s not really what they believe in. What they believe in is insulting Islam.

'Sadly that fear of the ­consequences of making fun of Islam, making fun of Islambhas, left the hearts of many of these journalists.”