UK Government to ask police why no action was taken over 'Jihad' chant video
22.10.2023 - 12:05
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
The Government will speak to the Metropolitan Police about its decision not to act over a video showing protesters chanting “Jihad” on the streets of London.
Police said no offences were identified in a video of a Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain protest showing a man chanting “Jihad”. However, Minister for Immigration Robert Jenrick has said “a lot of people” will find the Met’s analysis “surprising”.
He added: “That’s something that we intend to raise with them and to discuss this incident with them.”
A video posted on social media shows a man speaking into a microphone in front of a banner reading “Muslim Armies! Rescue the People of Palestine”, with the name of the group “Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain” on it.
The main speaker asks: “What is the solution to liberate people from the concentration camp called Palestine?”
A man standing to the side of the speaker, but neither on a platform nor speaking into the microphone, can then be heard chanting words including “Jihad”, as can some others attending the protest. The Met responded to the post on social media, saying the word “Jihad” has “a number of meanings”, and that specialist counter-terrorism officers had not identified any offences arising from the specific clip filmed in central London.
Other clips posted on social media from the same protest show speakers using the microphone to speak about a “solution” of “Jihad”. Mr Jenrick was asked about the incident and wider concerns around protests related to the Israel-Hamas conflict on Sky’s Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips.
He told the programme: “Chanting ‘Jihad’ on the streets of London is completely reprehensible and I never want to see scenes like that. It is inciting terrorist violence and it needs to be tackled with the full force
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