He has been convicted twice and described by an expert as a threat to national security.
Mohammed Mizanur Rahman is living in London (Image: Amer Ghazzal/REX Shutterstock)
A former ISIS terrorist is reportedly living in a £300,000 three-bedroom flat in London. Mohammed Mizanur Rahman, 43, used to be at the side of hat preacher Anjem Choudary. Rahman was sent to prison for four years in 2007 after saying British soldiers should come back from Iraq in body bags, saying he wanted “to see their blood running in the streets of Baghdad”. In 2016, he was convicted for a second time convicted for a second time, with Choudary, after pledging allegiance to Islamic State. Both were issued with five-and-a-half year prison sentences, and Choudary is serving a life sentence for being in charge of the proscribed terrorist group al-Muhajiroun — a Salafi-jihadist and Islamist network based primarily in the UK.
Now, the Daily Mail has discovered that Rahman is living in a “heavily subsidised” £300,000 home in north London near primary schools. This while claiming that Britain is part of an “axis of evil” with the US and Israel.
He is now delivering “highly toxic” rants to teenagers on TikTok. He has also written books under the pseudonym Abu Baraa, which have been removed from Waterstones and TikTok’s online shop. But they are still available to buy on Amazon.
One of them, entitled What Is Known From Islam By Necessity, incites readers to train for jihad. It also says women are not allowed to go outside without their husbands’ permission. Jews are called “disbelievers” and are “destined for hellfire”, he wrote.
Rahman works as an accountant, while also running a “consultancy” specialising in cultural education. Security expert Professor Anthony Glees said Rahman is a “serious national security threat”.
“Here you’ve got somebody who glorifies Islamist tenets and appeals in particular to a highly vulnerable younger age group and seems to me to be grooming them into the Islamist fold, and yet feels entirely safe flogging his books at Waterstones,” he added. “His mission is to sweet talk impressionable Muslims into committing acts of violence against non-Muslims by insisting that Islamist jihadists are not terrorists or killers.”
Rahman said Britain was part of an ‘axis of evil’ (Image: PA)
Prof. Glees hopes counter-terror police “act to stop Rahman now before it is too late”.