A Cage Fighter With a Soft Touch for Hard-Core Jihadists<br />Mr. Raja met with Mr. Beheshti five days a week for a year<br />and a half, trained him in fighting and eventually brought him out to the gym to spar with a white British soldier.<br />"That is my legitimacy in the prisons." Over the last eight years, Mr. Raja<br />and his group, the Unity Initiative, have helped reintegrate more than 50 released prisoners convicted of terrorism offenses.<br />" Mr. Raja said. that He is still street-respect oriented in that respect,<br />" Mr. Raja said, struggling to his feet and catching his breath. that Make sure you note that Lyubo is a wrestling master,<br />29, 2017<br />Usman Raja, a burly 40-year-old and one-time pioneer of bare-knuckled mixed martial arts fighting,<br />was back for a few rounds of sparring at his home gym in a town south of London.<br />By the mid-1990s, Mr. Raja was making a name for himself as a fighter<br />and trainer in the gyms of East London, and young British Muslims hoping to join the jihad against the Bosnian Serbs sought out his coaching.<br />"The biggest things these extremists get from it is community," Mr. Raja was saying,<br />ticking off the names of the convicted terrorists now working with him.
