VICE News Meets Abdul-Haqq: The Islamist Boxer

Former professional boxer Anthony Small, has been cleared of plotting to leave Britain to join Islamic State militants in Syria. Small’s flourishing boxing career came to an end when he converted to Islam at the age of 24. Now known as Abdul-Haqq, he decided the sport’s lifestyle was incompatible with his hardline practice of the religion and took up preaching instead. An associate of the infamous Islamic preacher Anjem Choudary and his banned organization Al-Muhajiroun, Haqq used social media to share hi