The Jihadis Next Door Page #2

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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!

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,

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