Shaker Aamer, a UK resident's last Guantanamo Bay detainee, who returned home in October 2015 after 14 years in captivity, has been interviewed by The Daily Mail (who campaigned for his release), with my emphasis:And to those who claim he still has 'questions to answer' about his supposed support for terrorism, he produced the strongest possible riposte – an unequivocal denunciation of terror attacks on the streets of British cities, such as the 2013 murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby and last week's stabbing at Leytonstone Tube station.Link:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...s-release.htmlMr Aamer said: 'How can you give yourself the right to be living here in this country, and living with the people and acting like you are a normal person, and then you just walk in the street and try to kill people?'
'According to my knowledge of Islam, it's not allowed. Even if there is a war you cannot kill just anybody, you cannot kill kids, you cannot kill chaplains, you cannot just go in the street and get a knife and start stabbing people. If you are that angry about this country, you can get the hell out.
In a BBC commentary:Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35085957Shaker Aamer's denunciation of modern-day jihadists is a hugely important moment in the fight for hearts and minds.
Extremists have long used the imprisonment of Mr Aamer - and others like him - as part of their recruitment drive.mHis public demolition of their claimed justifications might just be the words that some on the cusp of violent extremism need to hear.
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