Jeremy Corbyn blamed Britain for beheading of Alan Henning by ISIS killer ‘Jihadi John’
Labour leader spoke at Stop the War rally day after video of Salford taxi driver's gruesome killing was released
JEREMY Corbyn reportedly blamed Britain for the beheading of Alan Henning by the ISIS killer “Jihadi John”.
The Labour leader told a Stop the War Coalition rally a day after the video of the gruesome killing of the Salford taxi driver his murder was “the price of jingoism” by the West.
The said Mr Corbyn also claimed the rise of the Islamic death cult was “payback” for western “arrogance”.
His comments in 2014 have emerged just two days after the veteran leftie was forced to say he did not blame government policy for the Manchester bombing, where 22 people died were killed on Monday night.
Theresa May accused him of making “an excuse for terrorism” after he sparked a day of outrage with his rant that Labour would “change what we do abroad” to make the UK safer.
In October 2014, the day after ISIS hostage Mr Henning’s death was published online, Mr Corbyn addressed a Stop the War rally.
The Sunday Times said he told attendees: “I’m pleased that we started with a period of silence for Alan Henning . . . because we have to remember that the price of war, the price of intervention, the price of jingoism, is somebody else’s son, and somebody else’s daughter, being killed.”
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The newspaper also revealed he attended a wreath-laying at the grave of a Palestinian terrorist involved in the massacre of 11 athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972.
And three days after the 7/7 terror attack in London in 2005 Mr Corbyn said: “We have to recognise that the security of this country is at risk . . . because of the way we inflict an insecurity on so many other people around the world.”
The comments will spark further anger over the 68-year-old’s attitude towards terror groups, after he was attacked for saying he had never met any IRA members.
But it later emerged he hooked up with members at least seven times between 1984 and 2009, and just two weeks after the Brighton bombing in 1984 invited two members of the Provisional IRA, Linda Quigley and Gerard McLoughlin, to parliament.
And after making the ludicrous claim his key ally Diane Abbott blew a massive hole in it by admitting he did spend time with them – but only in their “capacity as activists in Sinn Fein”.
Appearing on LBC, the Shadow Home Secretary was asked if Mr Corbyn’s denial was a “deliberate lie”, replying: “I think we have to distinguish from being on a platform with people and conducting private meetings.”