Apologists and Murderers
I watched the press conference given by CAGE yesterday, a self-styled advocacy organisation which has had a long association with Mohammed Emwazi who has been unmasked as 'Jihadi John', a sadist and murderer.
The chap at CAGE doing most of the talking was Asim Qureshi who appears on its web site as the group's Research Director, but for the most part he was really just a terrible apologist for Emwazi, arguing that the UK's security services had helped to radicalise this young man.
Which is an old story, of course, the same one used by the murderers of Drummer Lee Rigby who argued 'offences against Islam' drove them to kill and butcher an off-duty young solider who was walking in a London street.
So CAGE is to be believed the alleged 'harassment' and interference by security services is to blame for Emwazi's actions rather than the young man himself or the choices he made by joining up with the detestable death cult of IS which has been committing appalling acts of murder in Syria, Iraq, Paris and Copenhagen - against other Muslims, Christians, Yazidis, Jews and non-believers.
Here's a mealy-mouthed statement from the CAGE web site which is attributed to the group's editor and I hope the organisation now comes under a lot more scrutiny and criticism because the activities of CAGE seem to be encouraging and giving succour and to the Islamists instead of challenging their behaviour, at home and abroad.
Thursday 26 February 2015 - Written By: Editor
Mohammed Emwazi first came to CAGE in 2009 after being detained, interrogated and recruited by Mi5 on what was meant to be a safari holiday to Tanzania. Thereafter, the harassment continued and intensified which led to him losing two fiancée's, his job and new life in Kuwait. The harassment and abuse he suffered, was all without criminal charges ever being brought against him, with the legal remedies available to him failing, he attempted to start a new life abroad in Kuwait only to be blocked by the UK security agencies continually. A Washington Post investigation recently alleged he was the British IS member known as “Jihadi John”.
