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The religious phrase, which in Arabic means \u2018Allah is Great\u2019, has become infamous due to its use by extremists, who are known to cry it out ahead of performing terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n The Tuesday rally, organized by a grassroots group called Youth4Aleppo, included speeches from charity CAGE, which has been criticized for its dealings with Muslim fundamentalists<\/a>\u00a0and its sympathetic comments on Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS\/ISIL) executioner \u2018Jihadi John\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cNever forget who is the problem here,\u201d<\/em> the group\u2019s director, Asim Qureshi, told the crowds. \u201cWhen they come and say, \u2018Look, America is the one who is going to come and help you in this\u2019, then we have to remind them.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cGo back to the beginning of the war on terror when we were investigating cases of individuals being put on rendition flights to Syria where they had the soles of their feet beaten by the Syrian regime the moment they arrived in prison. And who sent them there? The Americans, the CIA sent them there.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n His words fired up the demonstrators, who had come to the Belgrave Square embassy to show their frustration with the British government\u2019s failure to halt \u201cmass murder\u201d<\/em> in Syria.<\/p>\n Last year, Qureshi found himself in the middle of a scandal<\/a>\u00a0after describing Jihadi John, real name Mohammed Emwazi, as \u201cextremely kind, gentle and soft-spoken, the most humble young person I knew.\u201d<\/em> Qureshi argued contacts with the British security services had led Emwazi to radicalization.<\/p>\n Former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg also spoke at the protest, saying Syrian President Bashar Assad and the US government had long worked together.<\/p>\n \u201cIn 2002, in the beginning of the War on Terror, that means the Americans were working close, hand in hand, hand in glove, with the regime of Bashar al-Assad,”<\/em>\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hundreds of people attending a demonstration outside the Syrian embassy in London chanted \u201cAllahu Akbar\u201d after listening to speakers from a controversial Muslim advocacy group. Read more The religious phrase, which in Arabic means \u2018Allah is Great\u2019, has become infamous due to its use by extremists, who are known to cry it out ahead of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":284878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-284876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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