Posted on 02/26/2015 7:37:42 AM PST by Wiz-Nerd
Since 2001, the British authorities have systematically shifted the spotlight away from its foreign policy and its security agencies by placing blame for violence at home and abroad solely on Muslims.
British security services have systematically engaged in the harassment of young Muslims, rendering their lives impossible and leaving them with no legal avenue to redress their situation.
A Washington Post correspondent contacted CAGE regarding a story she was working on. CAGE Research Director, Asim Qureshi met with the journalist, where she inquired about the name Mohammad Emwazi. Qureshi went away with that information and checked CAGEs files, revealing that Emwazi was a case that he had worked on due to security service harassment. The following day, the journalist revealed to Qureshi that she knew from her own sources, that the man known as Jihadi John was Mohammad Emwazi. The journalist showed Qureshi a video of Jihadi John in order to identify him. Qureshi clarified that while there were some striking similarities, that due to the hood, there was no way he could be 100% certain.
In 2010 Muhammad Emwazi, a Briton who, according to reports in the Washington Post, has been identified as 'Jihadi John', had been planning a trip back to the country of his birth, Kuwait. What ensued, was two years of communications with CAGE, highlighting interference by the UK security agencies as he sought to find redress within the system. He told CAGE at the time:
"I never got onto the flight, what was the point, I said to myself; Ill just get rejected. I had a job waiting for me and marriage to get started. But now I feel like a prisoner, only not in a cage, in London. A person imprisoned and controlled by security service men, stopping me from living my new life in my birthplace and my country, Kuwait."
Mr Emwazi went on to say: "I have been trying to find out the reason for my refused Visa issue from my home country Kuwait, and a way to solve the issue. So through my friends in Kuwait, it has been said to me that Kuwait has no problem with me entering, and the reason for my refusal is simply because the UK agents have told them to not let me in!!"
Asim Qureshi, Research Director of CAGE, said: "Like Michael Adebolajo, suffocating domestic policies aimed at turning a person into an informant but which prevent a person from fulfilling their basic life needs would have left a lasting impression on Emwazi. He desperately wanted to use the system to change his situation, but the system ultimately rejected him."
The culture of abuse now runs so deep in the UK that there are virtually entire communities which, due to security services acting outside of the rule of law, no longer have access to due process. Individuals are prevented from travelling, placed under house arrest and in the worst cases tortured, rendered or killed, seemingly on the whim of security agents.
Meanwhile, the United Kingdom has also multiplied its military intervention in Muslim countries, only leading to more resentment and calls by fighting groups for retaliation. Groups such as IS did not express the will to strike British interests before the coalitions bombing campaign in Syria and Iraq.
Asim Qureshi continued: "We now have evidence that there are several young Britons whose lives were not only ruined by security agencies, but who became disenfranchised and turned to violence because of British counter-terrorism policies coupled with long standing grievances over Western foreign policy.
"This case should trigger thinking about British domestic and foreign policy. What risk assessments, if any, have been made about British counter-terrorism policy and the key part it plays in radicalising individuals? How have the security services been allowed to get away with abusing British citizens without redress? Why are the long-standing grievances over Western interventions in the Muslim world been ignored?
"All parties genuinely interested in achieving peace and safety ought to realise that revising British foreign and domestic policy is the only way forward. Acting otherwise would be irresponsible."
More details on press conference to follow.
I’m sympathetic for him. I suggest we put him out of his misery.
Hmmm, I don’t hear of any support for the non-muslims who are harassed in the Middle East.
After Saddam was toppled, the Left was angry about Western Christian organizations stepping into Iraq to help. It was ‘imperialism’ and ‘wrong’.
There were Christians there who needed assistance. There were muslims who never had a freedom of choice in their faith.
Yet the only “struggle” is for the billion muslims in this world. They seem to be engaged in most of the world’s current armed conflicts (even against each other). is for the billion muslims in this world. They seem to be engaged in most of the world
“He just needed a good job....”
Marie Harf
I guess we have a new acronym......BINOs....Britons in Name Only.
We wouldn’t be forced to put troops in Muslim countries if a large number of the practitioners of the religion of “peace” weren’t going on murdering rampages. Ask the Assyrians, the Kurds, and the Coptic Christians if they feel sympathy and have compassion for radical Islamists.
The solution to STOP 'harassment' is to STOP allowing Muslims to immigrate to England. Obviously the mix isn't working... oil and water so to speak.
Besides Muslims are soooooo kind to each other in the ME... why would they ever want to leave paradise for some backward place like London?/s
Tune up the shofar. The battle is at hand.
I remember watching a talk show right after 9/11 (no link, just my memory, sorry)
A young actor who had played a terrorist in “True Lies” was telling of the experience he had when he first came to Hollywood, years earlier.
Being a muslim, he sought out a mosque in the area where he could attend Friday prayers.
Within two weeks of his joining the mosque, there were repeated attempts to recruit him for jihad. There was even talk of an expense paid trip to a training camp in Afghanistan.
He was so spooked by the experience that he quit the mosque and pursued his career as a backsliden agnostic.
He reported his experience to the police at the time, but nothing was done.
I have not seen this actor in anything since that talk show episode.
CAGE is an independent advocacy organisation working to empower communities impacted by the War on Terror. The organisation highlights and campaigns against state policies, striving for a world free from oppression and injustice.
CAGE has been campaigning against the War on Terror for more than a decade. Its work has focused on working with survivors of abuse and mistreatment across the globe. Its website is one of the leading resources documenting the abuse of due process and the erosion of the rule of law in the context of the War on Terror. CAGE has delivered more than 750 lectures across the UK, produced cutting edge reports and provided a voice to survivors of the War on Terror through its media work.
Sound like a Radical Muslim front group to me.
There is truth in it.
They are fish out of water in Britain. Assimilation they dont do.
If they want to go home to Arabia, by all means. Go.
But Mr. John is done though. He’s a cruel murderer, and needs to be dead.
Too late for him.
Sounds like a Muslim to me.
Just found this also. Its Director, Moazzam Begg, is a former Guantánamo Bay detainee who was released without charge in 2005 by President Bush
That's outrageous! Muslims aren't the ONLY problem. Why, I'd wager a full 0.10% of domestic terrorism is perpetrated by non-muslims.
There should be NONE in any civilized country. Expel them!
Fixed.
Find Jihad John, lift up his hood, and place a well-deserved bullet betwixt his British brows.
No mournful bell shall ring his burial...
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“”The culture of abuse now runs so deep in the UK that there are virtually entire communities which, due to security services acting outside of the rule of law, no longer have access to due process. Individuals are prevented from travelling, placed under house arrest and in the worst cases tortured, rendered or killed, seemingly on the whim of security agents.””
Here we go again. It’s someone else’s fault. I don’t understand not letting these people leave the country. They have it backward. Usher them to a plane or a boat, who cares? The smart thing to do is:
PREVENT THEM FROM RETURNING!! Keep them out as “undesirables” and take your country back, for crying out loud!
“”Its work has focused on working with survivors of abuse and mistreatment across the globe.””
Everyone has an angle..anything to make a buck. Look how well it’s worked for the Clintons.
“I want to work for WORLD PEACE and help the disadvantaged.” RIGHT!
This is crazy upside down.
Obviously the security apparatus did not do enough with regard to him.
And this, “2010 Muhammad Emwazi, a Briton” is a distortion. He’s not a Briton. He is a British subject, or UK citizen, but he was born in Kuwait.
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