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Thursday 14 August 2014 - 08:32

ISIL supporters pass out leaflets in London

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Takfiri elements in the UK hand out flyers promoting ISIL terrorist rule in Central London’s Oxford Street, Monday, August 11, 2014.
Takfiri elements in the UK hand out flyers promoting ISIL terrorist rule in Central London’s Oxford Street, Monday, August 11, 2014.
One flyer circulated by the Takfiri elements in the British capital on Monday reportedly urges Muslims to help “spread the Khalifah (caliphate) across the world,” RT website reported Wednesday.
 
According to the report, a young British-Iraqi student identified as Asma Al-Kufaishi tweeted photographs of the incident, which occurred near London’s busy Oxford Circus shopping district.
 
The photos show the supporters of the Takfiri group displaying posters promoting a pro-ISIL version of a caliphate establishment.
 
Al-Kufaishi further underlined that the men who were “promoting ISIL on Oxford Street” were racially abusive when she encountered them on Monday.
 
The development comes in the wake of extreme atrocities committed by the ISIL terrorists in the areas that they have captured in Syria and Iraq.
 
The Takfiri terrorists also recently clashed with forces in Lebanon following their attempts to annex a border town in the Arab country. The effort, however, was thwarted by Lebanese Army forces.
 
Meanwhile, the director of the Quilliam Foundation, a counter-extremism London think tank, says the men passing out the pro-ISIL flyers came from Luton in Bedfordshire and were likely linked to a UK-based sect of al-Muhajiroun fundamentalists.
 
Ghaffar Hussain, whose research at the think tank analyzes extremist trends in Western societies, expressed concern over the  pro-ISIL propaganda effort in London.
 
    “This is a very disturbing development but one that should not come as a surprise, since we are aware that around 500 British nationals have joined up with ISIS already,” he said. “We need to have a zero tolerance policy towards ISIS supporters and recruiters in the UK.”
 
This is while a Metropolitan Police spokesman said on Wednesday that the force was aware of the incident, but that no arrests had been made at this stage.
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