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Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens
ALEXANDER MELEAGROU-HITCHENS In yesterday's Sunday Times, CagePrisoners (CP) was criticised for promoting al-Qaeda preacher Anwar al-Awlaki on their site. The group's head, Moazzam Begg, responded by saying that ‘I don't consider anybody a terrorist until they have been charged and convicted of terrorism.' The only problem with this is that his organisation's website is replete with profiles and sympathetic interviews with convicted terrorists. Rightly, Begg follows the ‘innocent until proven guilty' line, but when they are convicted, CP seem to give the terrorists a lot of sympathy. Read more
ALEXANDER MELEAGROU-HITCHENS In yesterday's Sunday Times, CagePrisoners (CP) was criticised for promoting al-Qaeda preacher Anwar al-Awlaki on their site. The group's head, Moazzam Begg, responded by saying that ‘I don't consider anybody a terrorist until they have been charged and convicted of terrorism.' The only problem with this is that his organisation's website is replete with profiles and sympathetic interviews with convicted terrorists. Rightly, Begg follows the ‘innocent until proven guilty' line, but when they are convicted, CP seem to give the terrorists a lot of sympathy. Read more
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