The Jihadis Next Door Page #4

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and his friend, Zack,

to see what they think

of where their friend is now.

I feel like crying, brother.

It was just yesterday

I was on the da'wah stall

with this brother, you know.

It was just yesterday, bruv,

I was eating

with this brother, man.

How does it make you feel

to see that picture?

Envious, envious and...

Envious of what?

- He's at the best place

you can be.

In the land where

they implement

the law of Allah.

What better place is there?

Does it shock you that

his son's got a gun there?

- No, not at all.

It's probably a toy gun.

- What's the big deal?

It looks

like a real one to me.

How we gonna determine that?

What about the AK-47

that he's got

over his shoulder?

That looks pretty real.

- It's beautiful.

That's pretty real.

How does it feel

to know someone that's now

an enemy of the state?

It's an honor.

It's an honor to feel

that he is my Muslim brother.

At the end of the day he knows

and I know very well

that life and death

is in the hands of Allah.

When he is about to die

no one can bring it forward

and no one can delay it.

When Allah has decreed for him

to die, it was written

for him the day he was born,

or even maybe before.

It's already written for him

when he's gonna die.

He's not gonna die

any minute sooner

or a minute later.

And this brother now,

we're not even the sand

underneath his feet.

As the Hadith says,

the Mujahideen,

they are the friends of Allah,

they are the most beloved

to Allah.

And the believer,

the average believer

are not even the grain of sand

underneath their feet,

the one who fights for Allah.

That's the status of him now

so that's what I meant,

why I'm envious.

How many people

do you know that have gone?

I know of a fair amount,

a fair amount, yeah.

I know a fair amount.

"On 29th September, 2014,

you were arrested

and interviewed

regarding your involvement

in the following offenses.

Following a detailed

investigation..." I wonder

how detailed that was, yeah.

"...a decision has been made

that this matter

will not be proceeded with.

Yours sincerely, the moron of

Counter-Terrorism Command."

Mohammed,

Abu Haleema, and the other

members of their radical group

are attending court

this morning

to find out about

their terrorism charges.

They'd all been arrested

in anti-terrorism raids

ten months ago

and bailed until today.

Allah hu Akbar.

No further action, yeah.

No further action.

N to the F to the A.

N to the F to the A!

Mohammed has been released

but some of the others

have been charged

and face trial

for inviting support

for the Islamic State.

Mohammed and others

from the group

rush to court in solidarity.

Abu Haleema

was also due

to face terror charges today.

What's happened to you?

I got re-bailed

until the 15th of September.

Me and Abu Wallah, both of us.

- So why is that?

- I haven't got a clue.

Always happens, bruv.

The national press

eagerly await a statement

from the group.

After five hours

those in custody

are denied bail.

So I'm thinking

I'm gonna actually

make a statement

in the capacity

as a personal friend.

Shall I? What do you think?

- What are you gonna say?

- So I'll just say as a friend,

you know.

Guys, I want to make

a quick statement in relation

to what's happening upstairs.

Theresa May has made it

quite clear that she's now

dealing with those people

who are not necessarily

breaking the law,

but under margins of law.

And my message

to the Muslim community

of the UK is this...

This is a war against Islam

and Muslims,

the da'wah must continue,

the struggle must continue.

The call must continue

and one day

Islam will be dominant

and the black flag of Islam

will be over Downing Street.

Allah hu Akbar.

No, I'm not at all.

It's gut-wrenching

but I'm not going to

express that to the media,

you know what I'm saying?

I'm not going to show them

any weakness.

For the past 20 years

Mohammed has been

a vocal member

of a radical Islamist group.

He joined at university

after meeting hate preacher,

Omar Bakri,

also known as

The Tottenham Ayatollah.

By the second year

of university, he dropped out.

I couldn't continue

my academic "career,"

if you want to call it that,

because of the religious

beliefs that I adopted

at the time.

Who made you

make that decision?

I made the decision for myself.

How did your family react?

Obviously, they weren't

too happy, you know

what I mean, I didn't do it,

but at the end of the day

they had to accept my decision.

In his twenties

he became an active member

of the group

and a close student

of Omar Bakri,

the radical hate preacher

who fled the UK in 2005

and is currently

in a Lebanese jail

for supporting terrorism.

I would consider him as,

not necessarily

a spiritual mentor,

somebody as a close figure

in my life.

He's the person that had

the most effect on my life.

No doubt about it.

- In terms of molding my views

about things.

- More than your father?

Oh, yeah, definitely.

Without a doubt.

Yes, Abu Haleema,

the man of enraging

disbelievers is here.

He is the one

who enrages the disbelievers

just by his beard.

After five months

of filming with Mohammed

and Abu Haleema,

it's become clear

that they're careful

about what they'll admit.

They told me

that they'd watched

ISIS execution videos

so I play them

what I found online

to see if I could get

an honest reaction from them.

All right, here's a guy

with an RPG now

and he's fired it into a car

with the guys inside it.

Yeah, well, obviously,

they're dying.

I don't expect anything else.

I mean, these people now

are in a cage...

from what I can see,

being drowned.

It's a deterrent alone,

isn't it?

If a spy knows

he's gonna die like that,

the worst way

you can imagine dying,

they're not gonna want

to do it, innit?

The guy is foaming

at his mouth, you know what

I mean? Wow.

And I'm eating.

See, I read the reports

about this yesterday,

about how these guys

had detonation belts

wrapped around their necks.

Wow.

Oh! Wow.

That's HD quality, bruv.

That's like 4k or something.

Actually, it's just horrific.

It is horrific. I mean,

there's no doubt about it,

you know what I mean.

It's a horrible way to die.

You know what I mean,

I mean,

there's no disputing that.

The video is shocking

- but possibly more shocking

is their reaction.

I wondered if they'd laugh

so casually if I was being

executed by ISIS.

I don't think I'd be able

to watch it, bruv,

to be honest.

No, of course I'd be upset,

it would upset me, innit?

Obviously, if it's someone

I know...

I would say, "Jamie,

why didn't you become Muslim?

Because now you're gonna be

in the hell fire."

Purify

your intentions, inshallah.

We're not gonna get

any hate here.

It's a week

since the court hearing

and Mohammed is formulating

ever more provocative plans.

Death to Pakistan!

What did Pakistan do

for the Muslims? What did

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