The Jihadis Next Door

Stop worshiping this false god, democracy, and come back to worshiping Allah.

Radical Islam is spreading.

- Shariah for UK! - Shariah for UK!

The government is cracking down.

Together we will defeat you.

They've made supporting ISIS a crime.

- Takbir! - Allah hu Akbar!

Get back! Get back!

As control tightens

I spent two years with one of the most extreme groups in Britain.

He said, "Is it okay to behead someone?"

This is a front to recruiting people for ISIS.

Meeting the YouTube sensation...

Obviously, if people watch my videos and get radicalized

then I'm not responsible for that.

You're lying! You're lying!

...The extreme provocateur...

This black flag you see here,

one day is gonna be on 10 Downing Street!

...and most shockingly, a hate preacher...

British government, go to hell!

...who had become one of the world's most wanted men.

The new Jihadi John

may well be this father of four from East London.

- Can you just say your name? - Yeah, my name's Abu Rumaysah.

It's January, 2014,

and I'm spending the day in Walthamstow, Northeast London,

with one of Britain's most vocal hate preachers,

thirty-year-old Abu Rumaysah.

- Did you grow up round here? -No, I grew up in North London actually.

I grew up in Palmers Green.

My background is,

I actually grew up as a non-Muslim, from like the Hindu background,

and I became Muslim when I was about 19

and I just moved here when I got married.

Now a father of four,

he runs his own business renting out bouncy castles for children's parties.

Does your family ever worry for your safety or their safety?

Yeah, of course. I mean, I think it's natural

that there is this kind of tension and caution as well.

You see what far right groups are capable of

so there is this kind of... you know, worry and concern.

But that's part of the struggle, that's part of the package.

We believe, you know, if you follow the paths of the prophets,

we're gonna inevitably face these consequences.

It's a bit of a mess, but I'll show you.

These are the black flags of Islam.

This one is actually the flag of the Islamic State,

so...

One day when the shariah comes,

you will see this black flag everywhere.

One famous scholar of Islam, Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed,

he said that the black flag of Islam

will one day fly high over 10 Downing Street

and that was about 10, 15 years ago.

And, you know, that seemed ludicrous back then,

but if you look at the way society is moving on now

you can see that it's a very, very real possibility

with the way Muslims are coming forward in this country.

Abu Rumaysah has been a radical Muslim for ten years.

I contacted him via a website

for a group advocating strict shariah law in the UK.

Yeah, so basically translation of this Arabic is,

"There is no one worthy of worship to follow or obey in truth, except Allah"

and that "Mohammed is the final messenger."

And so we don't believe in sovereignty for the Queen.

We don't believe that authority should be in the hands of the non-Muslims.

We want to see this flag in every single country in the world.

The Muslims are gathered outside Paddington Green Police Station!

We will never give up calling for Islam,

whether you arrest us, whether you imprison us...

Abu Rumaysah is the PR man for a group of radical Muslims

who frequently organize provocative protests against the British government.

Theresa May, you are a tyrant!

David Cameron, you are a tyrant!

The public in this country, they are living in ignorance.

Their country is involved in war

and if they continue to remain silent

and have this kind of like an indifferent approach,

then it is not going to help them.

Look, one man died in Woolwich, Lee Rigby,

and the whole country went up in uproar.

There are many Lee Rigbys in Muslim countries

and if these issues aren't addressed,

then we can only expect more carnage in this country

and more cycle of violence.

BBC news at ten o'clock.

Nine men have been arrested in London as part of an investigation...

A radical Islamist preacher and political activist

is among nine men who've been arrested by counter-terrorism police in London.

Abu Rumaysah is one of the nine men arrested.

After three days of questioning by counter-terror police,

he's released on bail.

Two days later he disappears,

last seen at Victoria Coach Station with his heavily pregnant wife

and four children.

Months later it's assumed that he's gone to Syria,

and he's openly revered as a hero by his friends and colleagues,

including one of the men who was arrested with him,

extremist preacher, Abu Haleema.

When was the last time you saw him?

The day when we got arrested, in September.

I saw him at the police station and after that I never saw him again.

The whole time he was in the cell he was just reciting Koran,

just loud reciting Koran.

So when I saw him it brought a bit of tranquility to my heart.

His legacy still lives on till now, you know.

His material is still the best material you can get,

we can't compare to it.

The guy was like a machine, he was just turbo charged, always on the go.

With Abu Rumaysah gone I've tracked down the rest of the radical group

outside Boots on a North London high street.

Find out how Islam can liberate you

from the shackles of freedom and democracy.

They're carrying out da'wah, which means to recruit non-Muslims to Islam.

Can I interest you in a leaflet? Find out about Islam?

Abu Rumysah's role as senior spokesman

has been taken over by Mohammed Shamsuddin,

a divorcee with five children,

and he's quick to justify their radical message.

The British government doesn't wanna look at its own foreign policy.

All it wants to do is look at Muslims,

condemn Muslims, target Muslims.

You're stigmatizing our whole community.

What's gonna happen?

You're gonna face a backlash in this country.

Do you think a backlash is coming?

Of course it is! If you're gonna suppress a people for so long,

if you're gonna suppress and suppress, I mean, it's like a tinder box,

it's gonna explode.

Come, come.

The atmosphere changes when members of the group

move to confront a passing Kurdish procession.

Kurds are also Muslims.

In the Middle East the Kurdish Army is currently fighting ISIS.

All disbelievers.

Allah hu Akbar! Allah hu Akbar!

Allah hu Akbar. Allah hu Akbar!

And he's going past shouting, "ISIS terrorists."

Get back! Get back!

Get back! Get back! Get back! Get back!

Do you think we are scared of death? Do you think we are scared of death?

Get back! Order of the emir! It's the order of the emir!

Order of the emir!

Now! Get out of here now!

Oh, yeah, let's go.

Outnumbered, they retreat to the safety of Wood Green Shopping Centre

and disperse.

I'm nervous about providing this small group

with the media platform they crave.

But with ISIS on the rise,

and the terror alert level severe,

it seems essential to understand the motives

and activities of this secretive network.

Why do you like this location so much?

It shows the other side of the UK,

the working class neighborhoods,

the dirt and just how it looks, you know, it looks like a ghetto sort of.

Four days later I'm meeting an old friend of Abu Rumaysah,

fellow preacher, Abu Haleema,

who, I'm surprised to learn, sometimes works as a London bus driver.

Well, today I'm thinking, you know, over there where they got that nice light.

I'm thinking we film there. There's a lot of noise from the traffic,

but there's a nice bit of light. What do you think?

- Yeah, yeah. - Yeah, a nice bit of light there.

See how it looks on the camera.

He's becoming a social media sensation,

regularly making videos for YouTube and Twitter

to recruit young Muslims to radical Islam.

They're doing this carrot and stick approach.

The carrot is where they say to you, "Okay, yeah, if you embrace democracy,

we'll fund your masjid. We'll give you a knighthood, we'll look after you,

but if you reject our systems, we will oppress you,

we will arrest you, we'll hassle your whole family.

We'll take away your money, we'll try and take away your house,

and we'll try and take your children from you."

Stop worshiping this false god democracy, and come back to worshiping Allah.

-What do you think? -That's good.

One take.

Obviously, when I started out first...

You know, I was speaking too loosely

and I kept saying things like "innit"

I've been trying to remove that "innit." It's not a good look.

It's a criminal offense

to support a terrorist organization like ISIS,

but it's clear to me that Abu Haleema is sympathetic.

However, when challenged he refuses to admit this.

For the record, I don't support the Islamic State.

Just for the record, I'm not looking to get nicked.

Abu Haleema wants to live under Islamic law

but his passport has been canceled by the Home Secretary.

Theresa May can solve this problem of extremism very quick.

Give all of us back our passports, let us leave,

and there won't be a single extremist left in this country.

But would you take your family with you?

If I could, yes.

- And if not, would you go anyway? -Yeah.

What do you think you'd do when you get there?

Live under the shariah.

And what would that involve?