British Islamic Scholar Asrar Rashid at Birmingham March for Palestine: We Are Not Ashamed of Armed Struggle – We Have the Concept of Jihad in the Quran; Palestinians Are Justified in Fighting the 'Ba
He said there have been attempts to 'malign' Jihad by equating 'real Jihad' groups with terrorists, explaining that this has existed since 9/11 through Al-Qaeda, 'which was formulated by the West' for this purpose. Rashid called on the British government to arrest those in the Israeli embassy in the UK, but he said they will not do so because 'they control your capital, they control your finance, they write down the policies for you.'
Other speakers at the march included former British MP George Galloway, musician Lowkey, and sociologist David Miller.
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