- Campaign group Cage described Jihadi John as 'beautiful' person
- Lord Carlile, a former reviewer of anti-terror legislation said there are 'serious concerns' surrounding the group
- Added that he would never advise donating money to organisation
- Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust has given £305,000 to Cage
Charities were last night urged to stop funding a ‘warped’ human rights group that supports Islamic State killer Jihadi John.
Politicians said Cage had acted reprehensibly in describing knife-wielding fanatic Mohammed Emwazi as a ‘beautiful young man’.
The group, led by former Guantanamo Bay inmate Moazzam Begg, has been propped up largely by grants of £305,000 from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.
Another charity, set up in memory of Body Shop tycoon Anita Roddick, has handed over £120,000 to Cage. Much of the rest of the group’s income comes from cash donations from Muslims.
Lord Carlile, a former independent reviewer of anti-terror legislation, said he had serious concerns about Cage and would never advise giving it money.
‘Cage is an organisation with a warped view,’ he said. ‘No sensible person should be funding it.’
As questions were being asked as to how Emwazi was allowed to reach Syria, it also emerged that:
The fall-out from the extraordinary Cage press briefing about Emwazi – carried live on the BBC and Sky – continued to reverberate around Westminster yesterday.
On Thursday, Mr Qureshi, the group’s research director, who lives in a £530,000 semi-detached house in Surrey, wiped away tears as he described Emwazi, a 26-year-old Kuwaiti who grew up in London, as ‘extremely gentle’ and ‘the most humble young person that I ever knew’.
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