Hateful sermons from an extremist preacher who tried to whip up tensions in Birmingham are still online - despite being ‘flagged’ to YouTube more than a year ago. Abu Haleema called members of Small Heath’s Muslim community “cowards” in one of the web videos, which also featured in a Channel 4 documentary.
Internet giants including YouTube, Facebook and Twitter were criticised by MPs this week over extremist content on their sites, often run alongside adverts. And an investigation last Friday found hate preachers were sharing screens with household names.
Haleema is still using YouTube to air his poisonous views through his own channel, which features dozens of videos, despite the site being made aware of the content in February 2016.
A clip of the video was shown in the Channel 4 documentary The Jihadis Next Door.
Haleema was unsuccessful in his attempt to stoke tensions in Birmingham.
The documentary cast a light on Haleema’s radical views and close association to terrorists who have travelled to join ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
In the documentary Haleema was shown walking through Ealing describing how public executions would be carried out in a park under his brutal version of Sharia law.
The preacher, who had his passport seized in 2014 to stop him leaving the country, was also shown eating and smiling while watching gruesome ISIS execution videos but did not explicitly say he supported the group on camera.