A convicted terrorist who once called for British troops to be slaughtered is using TikTok to spread extremist views to teenagers from a three-bedroom council flat in north London, Our News Outlet can reveal.
Mohammed Mizanur Rahman, 43, was a close associate of hate preacher Anjem Choudary. He was jailed in 2007 after demanding that British soldiers return from Iraq in body bags and declaring: “We want to see their blood running in the streets of Baghdad.”
Rahman was convicted again in 2016 alongside Choudary after the pair pledged allegiance to Islamic State. Both received five-and-a-half-year sentences, while Choudary is now serving life for directing the proscribed terrorist organisation al-Muhajiroun.
Since his release, Rahman has been given heavily subsidised accommodation in a £300,000 council-owned property in north London, a short distance from several primary schools.
The father of four has previously described Britain as part of an “axis of evil” alongside the United States and Israel, called Muslim police officers “greedy sinners” and urged Muslims not to vote. He has now used his base in Enfield to deliver what security experts describe as “highly toxic” anti-British messages to impressionable TikTok users.
Rahman, an accountant who runs a consultancy focused on cultural education, writes books under the name Abu Baraa. Several of his titles were recently removed from Waterstones and TikTok’s online shop, although they remain available through Amazon.
One book, What Is Known From Islam By Necessity, includes passages urging readers to train for jihad, instructing that women should not leave home without their husbands’ permission and describing Jews as “disbelievers” destined for hellfire.
Mohammed Mizanur Rahman, 43, is living in a three-bedroom council flat in north London despite his terrorism convictions
Rahman and hate preacher Anjem Choudary were sentenced to five-and-a-half years in 2016 after pledging allegiance to Islamic State
The former prisoner appears in videos praising Islamist militants, including Boko Haram, the jihadist group based in north-east Nigeria
The book draws on lectures by Choudary and Omar Bakri Mohammed, a self-styled radical cleric whose teachings have been linked to the killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby, murdered by two radicalised Islamists in 2013.
It claims that armed struggle against non-believers is an obligation for every able-bodied Muslim because, it says, Muslim homelands are under occupation.
An entire chapter tells readers they have a religious duty to train for combat, including learning to shoot and drive vehicles in preparation for what it calls holy war.
The book also sets out how religious donations should be spent, arguing that funds should support fighting non-believers rather than schools or places of worship.
Another title, The Muslim Teachers Handbook, is presented as a guide to Islamic education for children as young as four.
It describes Jews and Christians as “corrupted”, calls diplomatic relations with Israel blasphemous and encourages children to embrace what it terms “jihad of the sword”.
Security specialists have warned Our News Outlet that Rahman may pose a “national security threat” because of his alleged efforts to promote radical Islamist views to vulnerable young people.
A longtime associate of Choudary, described as one of Britain’s most prolific Islamist terrorist recruiters, Rahman is also an internet specialist who created private online chatrooms for the preacher’s followers.
He was seen leaving his flat last Friday to attend afternoon prayers at a nearby mosque.
Wearing a white Adidas shirt, an off-white jacket and navy jogging bottoms, he carried a bin bag, took a phone call and then drove away.
When questioned about the sale of his books and his terrorist convictions, Rahman accused Our News Outlet reporters of being “extremists” and denied that he was one himself.
He has also sought to minimise the offences of imprisoned Islamic extremists, saying some were jailed merely for “reading magazines and holding placards”.
Rahman was first arrested in 2007 after being filmed using a loudspeaker at a rally and calling for British soldiers in Iraq to be killed.
He said: “We want to see their blood running in the streets of Baghdad.
“We want to see the Mujahideen shoot down their planes the way we shoot down birds. We want to see their tanks burn in the way we burn their flags.”
Some of Rahman’s TikTok videos cover less contentious subjects, including whether donkey meat is halal
Rahman was seen leaving his flat last Friday as he headed to a local mosque for afternoon prayers
He was imprisoned in 2016 and released in 2018. While in custody, he received £1,300 in compensation after complaining about being strip-searched at Belmarsh prison.
Since his release, the former al-Muhajiroun member has used TikTok to broadcast his views to thousands of followers.
TikTok banned his accounts and seller shop after media inquiries revealed that he was using the platform to promote radical ideology, sell extremist books and urge British Muslims not to vote.
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Rahman nevertheless vowed to open another account, saying the ban “is not going to stop me”.
In a video posted last month under the headline “The Truth About Terrorism Convictions”, Rahman appeared to target a younger audience while playing down the seriousness of terrorism offences.
He claimed that between 99 per cent and almost 100 per cent of people convicted of terrorism offences had cases involving no violence. “I can’t think of a single terrorism case that involves a person who has killed another person,” he said.
“I said this to a bunch of journalists. Initially, they all started laughing and saying, ‘What are you talking about?’ I said, ‘Well, show me, tell me?’”
He said one journalist raised the case of Michael Adebolajo, who was convicted of murdering Lee Rigby.
Rahman replied: “He is not convicted of terrorism; he was convicted of murder.”
He continued: “The people convicted of terrorism, they are convicted of reading a magazine, the majority of them; others for protesting. Hundreds were arrested in protests against the genocide in Gaza — men, women, elderly people, grey-haired people and disabled people — because they put up a placard saying ‘from the river to the sea’ or something like that.
“That’s terrorism — you understand.”
In another video posted last month, Rahman criticised Muslims who become police officers.
Speaking about an acquaintance whose friend was “obsessed with joining the Met Police”, he said: “Sometimes people’s greed and their hunger for money leads them to make compromises.
“Those compromises can sometimes make you a sinner, and sometimes they make you kafir — a non-believer or infidel.
“If you are in a state where you don’t care what you do as long as you get the money, then that’s what’s going to happen.”
He also attacked Britain’s role in the War on Terror in a video titled “False narratives of Islam are nothing new — War on Terror post-September 11th”.
Rahman said: “To borrow a term from Bush, there was this ‘axis of evil’, this triangle of three major players: America, Britain and Israel.
“These are the ones that have the most to benefit from keeping Islamophobia alive.
“They claim we are jealous of their way of life and that is why we are attacking them. It hasn’t anything to do with the genocides they are committing or the wars they are fighting; it is all to do with ideology.
“It is failed war propaganda that has failed over time.”
He went on to claim that most people convicted of terrorism in the UK were simply “curious teenagers” who had downloaded a magazine before being labelled terrorists.
Rahman, right, is pictured with hate preacher Anjem Choudary in a photograph released by police in 2016
Other videos feature less controversial subjects, including whether donkey meat can be considered halal.
Professor Anthony Glees, a security expert at the University of Buckingham, told the Mail: “He represents a serious national security threat. Many people will be surprised that he is not locked up again.
“Here you have someone who glorifies Islamist beliefs and appears to target a particularly vulnerable younger audience, seemingly grooming them into the Islamist fold, while feeling safe enough to sell his books through Waterstones.”
He added: “His mission is to persuade impressionable Muslims that Islamist jihadists are not terrorists or killers, potentially encouraging them to commit violence against non-Muslims.
“It is highly toxic nonsense. Yet Rahman exploits a bizarre logic that can easily appeal to TikTok’s young audience.
“Let us hope counter-terrorism officers act to stop Rahman before it is too late.”
Rahman was previously one of three men jailed for six years in 2007 after being convicted of soliciting the murder of Western troops in Iraq.
The terrorist, who was then living in Palmers Green, north London, had been filmed addressing a rally through a loudspeaker and demanding that British soldiers return from Iraq in body bags.
He said: “We want to see their blood running in the streets of Baghdad.
“We want to see the Mujahideen shoot down their planes the way we shoot down birds. We want to see their tanks burn in the way we burn their flags.”
