Earlier today Asim Qureshi was branded an ISIS sympathiser as he appeared to launch a defence of Emwazi and his barbaric crimes. In the wake of Emwazi's unmasking as the world's most wanted man, CAGE yesterday released a statement entitled 'Jihadi John: 'Radicalised' By Britain'. The release stated that Emwazi 'desperately wanted to use the system to change his situation, but the system ultimately rejected him,' a view later echoed on CAGE's press conference, which was broadcast live on both BBC and Sky News. Qureshi then used the statement to criticise the British security services, arguing that counter-terror measures turned young Muslims into extremists. Other videos have emerged of the London School of Economics graduate suggesting he is a jihadi apologist, including one at an anti-US rally in London at which he is filmed urging protesters to 'support the jihad of our brothers and sisters' in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and Chechnya. Qureshi can be seen speaking through a microphone at the the pan-Islamic Hizb ut-Tahrir movement rally. In the guise of Jihadi John, Emwazi has apparently been responsible for the beheadings of US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, British aid worker David Haines and taxi driver Alan Henning, and American aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig, also known as Peter. The gruesome murders were filmed, expertly edited and distributed in the name of Islamic State. Jihadi John's trademark black hood can be seen covering the faces of the four executioners in the latest pictures, thought to have been taken in Salahuddin province in Iraq. These despicable images show four men about to be put to death by ISIS in Iraq, apparently because they are spies. The shocking pictures emerged just hours after campaign group CAGE defended Jihadi John, today unmasked as west London student Mohammed Emwazi, as 'beautiful' and a man who 'wouldn't hurt a fly'. The scarcely believable comments about Emwazi were made by CAGE leader Asim Qureshi at a press conference in which he blamed MI5 for radicalising the University of Westminster graduate.
