Bakri's involvement in "Hizb ut-Tahrir" ended on 16 January 1996 when he was dismissed by the group's global leadership; following this he reinstated "Al-Muhajiroun" in early 1996. In the eyes of the Middle Eastern leadership of "Hizb ut-Tahrir", Omar Bakri had become a liability to their organisation due to various extravagant statements he had made; justifying the assassination of Prime Minister John Major, stating that Queen Elizabeth II would convert to Islam and telling Bosniaks to reject American food aid during the Yugoslav Wars and to "eat Serbs" instead. Omar Bakri Muhammad and his group was the subject of a "Channel 4" documentary entitled the "Tottenham Ayatollah" in 1997, in which Jon Ronson, an investigative journalist of Jewish-background followed Omar Bakri and "Al-Muhajiroun" around for a year. A young Anjem Choudary also featured as the group's Deputy. The documentary mentions mainstream Muslim groups (who felt that their activities were leading to a demonisation of all Muslims), Conservative MP Rupert Allason, the Board of Deputies of British Jews and even Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt criticising the group. The sitting Foreign Secretary in the Conservative Party government; Malcolm Rifkind; responded to international concerns by saying as "Al-Muhajiroun" had not broken any specific laws they could not be prosecuted. Omar Bakri openly discussed living on Jobseeker's Allowance and the group publicly protested in favour of the Sharia, against homosexuality and other aspects in contemporary British society that it considered to be immoral. The group claimed that they were collecting donations for groups in conflict with the State of Israel, such as Hamas, Hezbollah and Egyptian Islamic Jihad, but none of these groups have ever confirmed connections or if any money came to them. Yotam Feldner of the "Middle East Media Research Institute", a pro-Israeli group, cites reports from Egyptian newspaper "Al-Ahram Weekly" in November 1998, whereby Omar Bakri is alleged to have presented himself as a spokesman for Osama bin Laden's "International Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders."