Jihadi Runaways
One of the best news stories of the past week exposed the brazen behaviour of Abase Hussen who had the bare-faced cheek to blame the police for his daughter's decision to run away and join the Islamic State (IS).
Various newspapers covered the story, but not the BBC or other TV channels which is a real shame if you ask me, because the allegations against the police were given lots of publicity after the family's appearance before a group of MPs at the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee.
Yet all the while the father had taken part in an Islamist demonstration organised by the notorious and now banned Al-Mahajiroun terror group.
Dad of runaway Jihadi bride who ‘blamed everyone else’ caught at banned terror group rally
THE FATHER of a jihadi bride schoolgirl who blamed police after his teenage daughter absconded to join ISIS has been unmasked as an apparent radical who marched at an Islamist rally alongside hate preacher Anjem Choudary and Lee Rigby killer Michael Adebolajo.
By ALIX CULBERTSON - The Daily Mail
GETTY • PA Abase pleaded for his daughter Amira to come back from Syria
Astonishing video footage has emerged of Abase Hussen, father of 15-year-old Amira Abase, demonstrating with a banned terror group in London in September 2012 with the two Islamist radicals behind a banner reading: "The followers of Mohammed will conquer America."
Standing next to him is a man burning an American flag as Mr Hussen chants "Allahu Akbar" (God is great).
He is now accused of rank hypocrisy after he publicly blamed THE POLICE for not flagging up his daughter's radicalisation. The police even issued an apology.
The rally was part of a wave of demonstrations involving thousands of people protesting against a little-known film called Innocence of Muslims, which was criticised for ridiculing Islam.
Mr Hussen is clearly seen in the video of the London rally - organised by banned terrorist group Al-Muhajiroun - where more than 150 protestors clashed with police outside the US Embassy in Mayfair as they chanted "burn, burn USA" and "Allahu Akbar".
The revelation comes after Mr Hussen made an emotional video plea clutching a teddy bear for his daughter to return to the UK after fleeing with her two best friends, Kadiza Sultana and Sahima Begum, to join Islamic State in Syria last month.
They are thought to have gone there to marry IS fighters.
The east London father, originally from Ethiopia, addressed MPs at the Home Affairs Select Committee earlier this month and told them he had no inkling, "not at all", his daughter was involved in radicalisation or had been radicalised.
Mr Hussen, along with the families of the two other girls, has blamed the police for "misinformation" and not handing letters directly to the parents warning them of a fourth school friend who had gone to Syria to join Islamic State in December 2014.
Astonishing video footage has emerged of Abase Hussen, father of 15-year-old Amira Abase, demonstrating with a banned terror group in London in September 2012 with the two Islamist radicals behind a banner reading: "The followers of Mohammed will conquer America."
Standing next to him is a man burning an American flag as Mr Hussen chants "Allahu Akbar" (God is great).
He is now accused of rank hypocrisy after he publicly blamed THE POLICE for not flagging up his daughter's radicalisation. The police even issued an apology.
The rally was part of a wave of demonstrations involving thousands of people protesting against a little-known film called Innocence of Muslims, which was criticised for ridiculing Islam.
Mr Hussen is clearly seen in the video of the London rally - organised by banned terrorist group Al-Muhajiroun - where more than 150 protestors clashed with police outside the US Embassy in Mayfair as they chanted "burn, burn USA" and "Allahu Akbar".
The revelation comes after Mr Hussen made an emotional video plea clutching a teddy bear for his daughter to return to the UK after fleeing with her two best friends, Kadiza Sultana and Sahima Begum, to join Islamic State in Syria last month.
They are thought to have gone there to marry IS fighters.
The east London father, originally from Ethiopia, addressed MPs at the Home Affairs Select Committee earlier this month and told them he had no inkling, "not at all", his daughter was involved in radicalisation or had been radicalised.
Mr Hussen, along with the families of the two other girls, has blamed the police for "misinformation" and not handing letters directly to the parents warning them of a fourth school friend who had gone to Syria to join Islamic State in December 2014.
APThe three Jihadi schoolgirls fled the UK to join Islamic State in Syria last month
Hannah Stuart, an expert in domestic extremism and radicalisation at the Henry Jackson Society think tank, said: "He said he couldn't recognise the symptoms of extremism but he's clearly seen in the rally organised by Al-Mahajiroun - a proscribed terrorist organisation.
"Mr Hussen put himself in the limelight and criticised the authorities and has blamed everybody else including the internet but it's highly likely being the daughter of a man who attended this rally she didn't need to go online to be radicalised."
Ms Stuart added that the families' lawyer Tasnime Akunjee has blamed the authorities.
Hannah Stuart, an expert in domestic extremism and radicalisation at the Henry Jackson Society think tank, said: "He said he couldn't recognise the symptoms of extremism but he's clearly seen in the rally organised by Al-Mahajiroun - a proscribed terrorist organisation.
"Mr Hussen put himself in the limelight and criticised the authorities and has blamed everybody else including the internet but it's highly likely being the daughter of a man who attended this rally she didn't need to go online to be radicalised."
Ms Stuart added that the families' lawyer Tasnime Akunjee has blamed the authorities.
PAHate preacher Anjem Choudary led the rally in London
Mr Hussen told MPs: "I know my daughter. She is the kind of girl who, if it is sunset, she will call me to pick her up. How on earth she travelled abroad to join ISIS, is a very difficult question for us to answer."
He added: "I don't know the symptoms [of radicalisation] even - what radicalisation is."
Earlier this week Mr Hussen travelled to Turkey with the families of the other two girls and has since returned to the UK.
Mr Hussen told MPs: "I know my daughter. She is the kind of girl who, if it is sunset, she will call me to pick her up. How on earth she travelled abroad to join ISIS, is a very difficult question for us to answer."
He added: "I don't know the symptoms [of radicalisation] even - what radicalisation is."
Earlier this week Mr Hussen travelled to Turkey with the families of the other two girls and has since returned to the UK.
