YouTube has said it will not remove videos by a hate preacher and associate of a London Bridge terrorist who said he wants to see the “black flag of Sharia over Windsor castle”.
Abu Haleema – who appeared in Channel 4 documentary The Jihadis Next Door – has called for homosexuals to be publicly executed and Britain to shun democracy in favour of Sharia Law.
The self-styled cleric, who was born and grew up in South Kilburn, North West London, has been banned from Facebook and Twitter.
But YouTube has said it will not remove videos where Haleema calls for ‘Muslims to dominate the world’, for adulterers to be stoned to death and labels democracy a “cancer”.
The Google-owned web giant said videos which ‘contain controversial religious or supremacist content’ but do not violate its policies on hate speech and extremism will not be removed.
But the company added it has introduced new ‘tougher’ measures including removing advertising, related video links and comments from the clips.
In four videos flagged to YouTube, Haleema calls for Islam and Sharia Law to “dominate the world” and for barbaric punishments against ‘kuffar’ – or non-believers.
In one, he states: “Allah says the truth against the falsehood until it breaks it, until it smashes it to pieces. Who are these people of falsehood? People who call for freedom and democracy.
“Democracy is cancer. Islam is the answer. Sharia will dominate the world.
“We follow the Sharia. From the Sharia is to cut the hands of the thief, from the Sharia is to stone the adulterer.”
Haleema appeared in the same documentary as London Bridge attacker Khuram Butt and has also appeared alongside hate preacher and convicted ISIS supporter Anjem Choudhary.
In the Channel 4 documentary, he was shown calling for homosexuals to be publicly executed and laughing at videos of prisoners being drowned by Islamic State.
The Londoner was arrested on suspicion of encouragement of terrorism in 2015, but was never charged. It is believed his Twitter account was closed on the orders of the British security services.
A YouTube spokeswoman said: “In the last year, we’ve been taking actions to protect our community against violent or extremist content, testing new systems to combat emerging and evolving threats.
“We’ve tightened our policies on what content can appear on our platform, or earn revenue for creators.
“We are increasing our enforcement teams and we are investing in powerful new machine learning technology to scale the efforts of our human moderators to take down videos and comments that violate our policies.”
YouTube has previously terminated Haleema’s accounts of people they have reasonable belief are involved in terrorist activity.