article_snippet.sent: Mohammed 'Jihadi John' Emwazi came in contact with Hizb ut-Tahrir while studying at Westminster University .
article_snippet.sent: An extremist Islamist group with a 'big UK support base' has joined forces with al-Qaeda in Syria, according to reports.
article_snippet.sent: Several British men linked to ISIS, including Mohammed 'Jihadi John' Emwazi, are known to have been in contact with An extremist Islamist group with a 'big UK support base' while studying at UK universities.
article_snippet.sent: During his 2010 election campaign, David Cameron promised to ban the group, whose UK branch was founded in 1986, but an international Muslim organisation which, like ISIS, advocates a single Islamic state, or caliphate, in the Middle East under Islamic law is still alive and well in Britain.
article_snippet.sent: Hizb ut-Tahrir has been known to recruit members at British universities and evidence emerged earlier this year showing Hizb ut-Tahrir (Arabic for Party of Liberation) may have been involved in the radicalisation of ISIS executioner Mohammad Emwazi.
article_snippet.sent: ISIS executioner Mohammad Emwazi, known before ISIS executioner Mohammad Emwazi unmasking as 'Jihadi John', is said to have taken part in events at Westminster University where members of HT were among the speakers.
article_snippet.sent: Recruiting ground: Several men linked to ISIS are known to have been in contact with Hizb ut-Tahrir while studying at British universities .
article_snippet.sent: Four years ago, a student connected to HT was elected president of the Students’ Union at Manchester University.
article_snippet.sent: His vice-president also had links to the group, which raised concerns that the Students’ Union had been taken over by extremists.
article_snippet.sent: On his return to England in 2006, the 37-year-old renounced his views and set up 'counter-extremism think-tank' the Quilliam Foundation.
highlights_snippet.sent: Islamist extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir 'join al-Qaeda franchise in Syria'
  Jihadi John came in contact with group at Westminster University .
  