sentences:  He was elected president of the college's Islamic Society, and staged protests against the secular nature of the college as well as inviting Islamist speakers onto campus.Unconvinced by the YMO response to the Bosnian genocide, Husain joined the British faction of Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamist group which called for a Caliphate, in whose activities he participated for around five years.It was during his studies at Newham College in 1995 that he decided to leave the group, after witnessing the stabbing of a Christian student.