Asim Quareshi, above, is research director for CAGE which is described as a ‘human rights group’ but defines themselves as “campaigning AGAINST the war on terror for more than a decade”. Their purpose? To help the poor folks like Mohammed Emwazi who are being investigated.
Via Daily Mail
The group who helped name Mohammed Emwazi as ISIS executioner Jihadi John caused outrage today after blaming MI5 for pushing him towards his killing spree in Syria.
Asim Qureshi, research director at the rights group CAGE, described the world’s most wanted man as ‘extremely kind, extremely gentle and the most humble young person that I ever knew’.
At a press conference today Mr Qureshi was close to tears as he said Emwazi, who is linked to a string of executions of ISIS prisoners, ‘was such a beautiful man’.
Mr Qureshi said he was radicalised after the security services harassed him and alienated him because ‘the man I knew would never hurt a single person.’
He said: ‘When are we going to finally learn that when we treat people as if they’re outsiders, they are going to feel like outsiders and they will look for belonging elsewhere.’
Mr Qureshi was asked if he had failed to report him to the authorities if had suspicions that Emwazi was Jihadi John, but he said he had no idea until approached by journalists.
The assertion that MI5 ‘alienated’ Emwazi caused fury online, accusing CAGE of being apologists for ‘barbarism’.
Well said, Brits!