this one's for all courageous
keyboard tappers who like sending me
threats
over the internet
you've got david cameron david cameroon
coming and saying
british muslims in britain need to be
more british what does that mean
what does that mean does that mean what
on a friday night i go to the pub
i have a poor pie what does it mean to
be a british muslim in reality brothers
you're either extremist muslim or you're
not muslim
abdulhak or anthony small as he was
formerly known was once a rising star in
professional boxing
in his 2009 bout against matthew hall
he's killed both the british and
commonwealth light middleweight titles
and it was a stunning finish when it
came from anthony small
on december 4th abdul haq was arrested
on terror-related charges
he was accused of plotting to travel to
syria on a fake passport
with the intention of joining islamic
state militants
vice news were filming with abdul haq in
the run-up to his arrest
in the wake of president obama's
announcement of the bombing campaign
against islamic state
abdulhak abruptly left london we tracked
him down in stoke
hello nice to meet you how's it going it
brought us out to the middle of nowhere
so why stoke anywhere out of london in a
nutshell if the british government are
claiming that there are
unknown numbers of terrorists on their
own shores
then obviously if they're going to go
and attack the state of the terrorists
so to speak but obviously they're going
to start rounding people up
why do you reckon they deem you as a
threat in reality
what i say the general master people
don't agree with but we
find that people who are willing to
expose the corruption of
western foreign policy they end up like
julian assange
i mean i've been like i've mentioned
before i've been raided um
eight times over the past two years my
flat's on
on the ground floor and every time the
door goes the main door goes
my heart skips the beat that's the ready
of how i how i'm living
when he converted to islam at the age of
24 abdul haq gave up his promising
career when he realized boxing was not
compatible
he has since become a self-proclaimed
fundamental muslim focused on spreading
his interpretation of islam
he gets his message out by posting
provocative videos online i see the
exact same thing happening in the case
of of the of lee wrigley the british
soldiers got his head chopped off inside
the footage
the man who went abroad fought for his
country killed innocent men and children
comes back to his homeland and gets
killed we never expected poor oldie
riggery to get killed in the streets of
london
compared to the lee rigby's how many
abdullah's are there how many khadijahs
are there
abdul haqq showed us to the woods on the
edge of a park wade set up camp
so where are we going now we're just
going down to my little um
hideout so to speak my tent where i've
been staying for a couple nights
aren't you worried that like you um
coming out and camping out here might
make you look guilty
in reality the british intelligence
services
know even more than i know that i'm of
no
threat to them whatsoever they know that
whatever i say on put on the internet is
what i say behind my closed doors
there we go it's just a basic tent
there's nothing in here there's nothing
in there
okay do you even lock a bedroom what you
need this there is a backup
battery pack okay for your phone yeah
this is this
is here my tablet notes on it uh zamik
talks
keep me entertained i wanna know about
yourself tell me about your journey into
islam
i was raised uh in a christian household
and this friend gave me a book called
illustrated guide to islam
i was so fascinated by islam that i
would just
go to so many different classes and
constantly learning learning learning
learning learning
obviously initially i wasn't so firm
grounded and extreme but
how do you feel about the islamic state
the islamic state will
spread to the whole of the earth it will
give people their basic needs
food clothing shelter completely free of
charge there'll be no raping no
no no massacre in it no one will be
forced to embrace islam is that what's
happening now
that's what that is that is what is
taking place inside of
iraq and syria right now because some
people might say as much as the west
might have propaganda against
the islamic state obviously for their
own benefits they're going to
um put out propaganda for their own
state who am i going to trust i'm going
to trust obviously the muslim the one
who obviously known
that he that that that if he lies he's
gonna be accountable rather than one who
lies as a part of his own daily
day-to-day
job so by islamic law
your mother and your sister who are
christians will be viewed as kaffar
yeah if my mother my sister my father
died having not embraced islam then they
would go to the hellfire
on the day of judgment god is not going
to accept you saying i was a good person
god
so having just met him at first i
thought why is this guy coming out to
the middle of nowhere to camp out in a
tent when he claims he's not guilty
but having spoken to him i can see that
he's very dubious and distrustful of
the uk media uk government and the
police
and seemed in denial that perhaps the
islamic state isn't something that
everyone wants
abdul haqq was soon back in london
street preaching
we went to meet him a few days after the
beheading of british aid worker david
haynes by islamic state militants
this british man has to pay the price
for your promised cameron
to arm the peshmerga against the islamic
state
so we're just on our way to catford
south london abdul has currently out on
the streets
giving datwa which is calling people to
islam
back in london then yeah back in london
and what's your plans now that you're
back
there's two front lines in islam and
that's the front end of the dow or the
front of the jihad
as a day you
so what are these different leaflets so
this one is the non-muslims imagine a
society
imagine basically this one's quite
relative today because um
yesterday david haynes got his head
removed why couldn't david cameron be
brave enough to stand against america in
their own policies the point is he's
going out to save these people and
someone needs to be doing that
point of view is he was targeted not
because an aid worker was targeted
because he was a british citizen
but he was giving aid to the children of
allah well i say as a muslim
i said that no kaffir is innocent
stop being a slave to the rapists and
the pedophiles
help us to stop the rapists and
pedophiles stop finding rapists and
pedophiles
there you go doesn't matter if you are
muslin on christian
sorry i'm christian catholic and this is
not allowed to yeah but let
me explain with you first of all what
does democracy say
about pedophiles give them food club and
show up that's not going to stop it
under islam pedophiles we see the death
sentence the christians don't have a
solution foreign society
the jews don't have a suicide squad the
muslims do i'm proud to live in england
or london i've been living in here for
15 years
and i've been learned the way you live
that's a matter of an explanation
i cannot put my law on my way of living
in here i cannot do that instead muslim
people they do
it's our country always and you coming
to
enjoy your ways not to change
that's how it goes in it whenever you're
running with something that is
truthful or you're running with
something that's powerful
the masses don't want to don't want to
give it time
so the point of it is i'm not a
radicalist why am i purist i take islam
in the pure form
and if the people want to be angry with
me and related to it i don't really care
because my
purpose of my life is with one allah the
pleasure of allah
it wasn't long till we heard from abdul
again when his flat was raided
he had also been arrested as part of a
wide operation
this is my new front door okay why's
that they've broken
your fund all down yeah obviously i'm
not sure the international deals of what
took place
but um my neighbors in for me that
uh they come about four o'clock in the
morning and was ram ready in the door
for about half an hour for what reason i
don't know because
there's no crime you committed and as we
see this is the result
we can see the damage they've done to
the door even on the inside i mean
that's cool
competing laughing there's a proper job
they've done on there
through this way in a nutshell
really nothing for them to take but also
what the neighbors were informing me
is that outside they had metal detectors
all around
did they interrogate you yes yes so now
we come to interview
what kind of questions do they ask
literally what color box of shorts have
i got on
it was just pathetic but where i did
start to get
to get concerned is when i started to
say basically when we arrested you you
had camping gear with you
uh new camping bag where were you off to
syria
i said i mean what's he trying to imply
so anyway uh
cut alongside that night there was
really rocky for me i literally
literally no word of a lie prepared
myself to be reminded in custody because
i'm thinking they're trying to put two
and two together and cut number 22
rather than put two to give a cup number
four
what happened there was i came out of
this cell walked around my sister went
in the room he goes
they're baiting you i was like
do they take anything new this time
around yeah this is a thing like
now we've come number comes to the
warriors they've taken these things
here for me a long bowl now i am an
archery instructor i've been an archery
instructor for past two years
i teach arch to children in the primary
school i was taking my tools of work
yeah for what reason why take my ball
and like what's in here really i mean
what would you want to find
substantial any substantial amounts of
money financial documentation including
bank statements
and receipts linked to prescribed
organizations
and that organization is al muhajiroun
from what i know
they dis continued activity and were
prescribed
before i even embraced islam so if
you're going to
link me and say a member of around my
heart jerome why aren't you so rescued
for 9 11 as well
what do you think they might base that
one you tell me you told me you told me
although abdul haq denies being a member
of al muhajiroun
the banned islamist group previously led
by andrew choudary
he is closely associated with many of
his former members
and he has joined them on demos such as
in this footage where he threatens to
burn the poppy
written symbol of military remembrance
muslims don't care
next year we'll get a bigger puppy
whether you like it or you hate it
how has this um raid left you feeling
though it
shows me you made people say oh your
videos who cares you just make videos
online
you can't change the world many people
say you can't change the world i'll show
i'll show you my equipment
yeah which they didn't take away they
didn't take my equipment this is my
equipment
one man
one can with this equipment here
i'm able to shake the the the the leader
of the second power for his country in
the world
to the point that when he wants to
implement a policy and a unjust policy
um in the slack of his henchmen of
people to round up
and arrest so i say in the words of abu
hamza
this is the path we chose
two months after this interview abdel
haq was arrested and held on terror
charges including trying to join is
he was kept on remand for eight months
on july 28th the jury returned a verdict
we just heard news after nine days of
deliberating the jury has cleared
anthony smalls abdul haq of trying to
join the islamic state in syria
we're just at the old bailey now we're
going to see if we can catch him when he
comes out
and how are you feeling i'm obviously
it's it's a bit surreal to be outside
often causing there for like eight
months now and it's the 16th of
december until whatever day it is now it
took the jury in nine days to decide
yeah what do you think worked in your
favor yeah i mean it's just
it's the truth more than anything isn't
it it's the truth more than anything the
truth obviously will prevail there was
no contact between me and syria or
missouri or anything like that
your mom's very keen to get you home
yeah of course i can imagine she went
she always told me she's always told me
i can't change the world
yeah they'll lock me up in the end they
told me
and they did lock me up bye
so
see me when you see me
you