Asim Qureshi

PreacherRadicaliserRecruiterTerrorism Funder

Nov 16

**DOB:** 1982

**Nationality:** Pakistani-British

**Location:** London, United Kingdom
**Ideology/Affiliation:** Islamist Extremism/Jihadism/Radicalism

**Type of Leader:** Author/Speaker/Director at CAGE

Current Status: Author and Director of Research at CA GE UK

Biography

Asim Qureshi is the research director at CAGE, a UK-based Islamist advocacy group dedicated to empowering communities affected by the War on Terror. He studied International Law and is the author of “Rules of the Game” and “A Virtue of Disobedience.” Qureshi studied law at London Guildhall University.

Aafia Siddiqui, known as Lady Al-Qaeda, was Qureshi’s first case after he joined CAGE in 2004. Qureshi ran a three-year campaign on her behalf but did not manage to make a breakthrough in her case — with Siddiqui being sentenced by U.S. judges to 86 years.

According to the Daily Mail, CAGE and Qureshi kept in touch with Mohammed Emwazi — a British Daesh terrorist known as “Jihadi John” that appeared in videos decapitating hostages held by Daesh in 2015. Qureshi stated that Emzawi was a kind and gentle young man, whom he had maintained contact for four years or more. Qureshi also admitted to having had a ‘pastoral’ role with Michael Adebolajo, one of the killers of Woolwich Fusilier Lee Rigby, prior to the murder outside his barracks in Woolwich, South-East London in May 2013.

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Evidence of Hate Speech/Incitement:

November 2021: Asim Qureshi and CAGE held an open discussion organised for Islamophobia Awareness Month in collaboration with three organisations – OSCH (Our Shared Cultural Heritage), Decolonise UoM (University of Manchester) and Manchester University Press Radical Readers. The event has been condemned by MPs. Khalid Mahmood, the Labour MP for Perry Barr and a Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange stating that Asim Qureshi and CAGE have consistently shown themselves to be some of the worst to promote cultural understanding and reflect a positive view of Muslims to showcase the best of Britain.

February 2015: In an interview conducted with Channel 4 News, Qureshi praised Mohammed Emwazi, known as ‘Jihadi John’ - one of UK’s most dangerous terrorists who joined Daesh in Syria. Qureshi described Emzawi, known for his videos where he beheads hostages on camera as an “extremely kind, gentle, beautiful young man” and blamed the British security service and MI5 for his radicalisation. He further claimed that “Emwazi desperately wanted to use the system to change his situation, but the system ultimately rejected him.”

May 2012: In an interview conducted with Asim Qureshi by Julian Assange on RT, he states that he is in favor of stoning and death penalty. He also revealed that he’d been in regular contact with Emwazi before he left to Syria.

2006: In a recorded speech in front of the U.S. embassy in London, Qureshi openly urges protestors to ‘support the jihad of our brothers and sisters’ in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and Chechnya against the oppression of the West.’ “We know that it is incumbent upon all of us, to support the Jihad of our brothers and sisters,” he said.

Video Links:

Asim Qureshi describes Mohammed Emwazi - the Daesh terrorist known as “Jihadi John” as a “beautiful man” who was radicalised partly due to his treatment by British security services.

When asked about the Sharia law, Asim Qureshi said that he is in favor of stoning and death penalty.

Extremist Individuals - Islam