The Metropolitan Police said no offences were identified in a video of a Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain protest showing people chanting ‘Jihad’.
Immigration minister Robert Jenrick said chanting ‘Jihad’ on the streets of London is ‘completely reprehensible’
Immigration minister Robert Jenrick said “a lot of people” will find the Met’s analysis “surprising”, adding: “That’s something that we intend to raise with them and to discuss this incident with them.” A man standing to the side of the speaker, but neither on a platform nor speaking into the microphone, can then be heard chanting words including “Jihad”, as can some others attending the protest.
He told the programme: “Chanting ‘Jihad’ on the streets of London is completely reprehensible and I never want to see scenes like that. It is inciting terrorist violence and it needs to be tackled with the full force of the law.He added: “Arrests have been made… There have been arrests since the beginning of this situation… There have been arrests under terrorist legislation. And we want to do everything that we can to protect British Jews.
“They have reviewed a video from the Hizb ut-Tahrir protest in which a man can be seen to chant ‘Jihad, jihad’.
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