'Jihadi John' killed by US air strike

The West’s public enemy number one, Mohammed Emwazi aka. 'Jihadi John' has reportedly been killed in an overnight airstrike in Syria by US forces.

Emwazi became chillingly nortorious for his public beheading of British and American citizens. The world was shocked by his brutality, the UK, and in particularly British Muslims were deeply saddened and angry that he called himself a British Muslim.

Many now will rejoice that this murderous ideologue is no more, but many too will be deeply uneasy about the extra-judicial way this was carried out.

Head of the Ramadhan Foundation, Mohammed Shafiq commented,

“It is a significant moment in the fight to get justice for David Haines, Alan Henning and all the victims of this evil man.

The Ramadhan Foundation joins the victims of Isis and their families in preferring him to have being captured alive so he would have seen justice in a court of law, but understand why this wasn’t possible. Extra judicial killing over justice in a court of law should not become the norm in the fight against terrorism.

Mohammed Emwazi manifested the evil and barbaric nature of this terrorist entity called Daesh which has killed thousands of Muslims, Christians, Yazidis. There is nothing he said or stood for which would justify his barbaric crimes and actions.”

Let us not forget that the extra judicial killing of Osama Bin Laden did not stop murderous extremism in the name of Islam. In fact many more Europeans including Briton’s have joined extremist organisations since the death of Bin Laden.

In many ways the war here in the UK is really fto capture the hearts and minds of those who could be easily corrupted by extremist propaganda.

As Shafiq from the Ramadhan Foundation said, "this is a significant moment, one in which we should reflect upon how we help solve the bigger problem of justice, and fairness around the world, and closer to home, how we give young men and women from diverse backgrounds a genuine sense of British belonging".

Simon Woolley