RABBLE ROUSE RS WHO WANT TO MARCH TO REVOLUTION
The Left-wing lawyer
AN outspoken lawyer who once said no Muslim should ever cooperate with British police joined demonstrators outside Kensington Town Hall.
Mohammed Tasnime Akunjee was responsible for a series of toxic slurs online in the days following the Grenfell Tower inferno.
He is at the centre of a tightknit circle of Left-wing community activists, including other lawyers and campaigners.
Writing online beside footage of the burning building, he said: ‘I bet you some Tories look at that video and see a solution to benefits claims... sick people.’
Claiming the tragedy will ultimately reveal ‘criminal profiteering and neglect for life’, Mr Akunjee also called for ‘some Tories’ to be wrapped in the cladding said to be partly responsible for the blaze.
He said: ‘Ask them if they trust in fire safety regs for council housing... people need to go to jail for a long time on this one.’
Mr Akunjee once represented Ibrahim Hassan, a close friend of Lee Rigby’s killers who was arrested after giving a TV interview.
Hassan, also known as Abu Nusaybah, accused MI5 of being complicit in his torture in Kenya and driving him towards extremism.
Mr Akunjee, a graduate of the University of Sussex, has gone on to specialise in representing Muslim families, in particular those accused of terrorist offences.
He said no Muslim should cooperate with the British police because the Government’s Prevent counter-terror policy is ‘straightforward, paid-for spying on the community’.
The lawyer lists controversial campaign group Cage – dubbed ‘apologists for terror’ – among his ‘likes’ on his Facebook page and includes its founder Moazzam Begg as a friend.
He follows its controversial research director Asim Qureshi on Twitter. Mr Qureshi sparked a firestorm of controversy by describing Islamic State butcher Mohammed Emwazi, known as Jihadi John, as a ‘beautiful young man’.
Student agitator
A STUDENT union organiser is a major voice behind the calls to ‘bring down the Government’ through protests on Wednesday.
Antonia Bright is responsible for the Movement for Justice By Any Means Necessary. Within hours of the Grenfell fire’s scale becoming clear, she switched the campaign’s focus from fighting Brexit and immigration policies.
Now, the group – provocatively named to echo a Malcom X speech – is calling for thousands to march on London.
‘This government has presided over thousands of deaths from seven years of austerity and anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant racism and bigotry. They need to go. Now,’ a poster urges.
In one online profile, Miss Bright says she is responsible for supporting student reps at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.
Asked about the march, she said: ‘You have to ask what does it take to make this Government stand up and listen?
‘This is about justice for everyone and I would expect people from all strands to be there.’
Miss Bright is close friends with Trotskyist Tony Gard, 76, who has been at the centre of violent protests, including at the State Opening of Parliament in 1995.
Veteran activist
A VETERAN rabble-rouser was at the centre of stirring up dissent from the anger provoked by the Grenfell fire.
A video of Ishmahil Blagrove ranting at a reporter in the shadow of the gutted building has gone viral on Facebook. In the clip, he says ‘f*** the media’ and calls for a revolution.
He said ‘sometimes all it takes is a spark’ as he highlighted the 2011 riots that swept Britain.
‘I’m already hearing messages of people mobilising, of police intercepting messages on Facebook,’ he said. ‘We saw what could happen in this country in 2011, over the shooting of Mark Duggan.
‘There are real issues in the underbelly of society that frustrate people.’
Mr Blagrove, a key figure behind the Notting Hill Carnival, is a veteran activist and professional controversialist.
Once a regular of Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park, he describes himself as a ‘bona fide hood rat’ who suffered police brutality as a young man.
Friends joke the popular figure in pro-Corbyn circles could even join Labour’s shadow cabinet.
Protest leader
ONE of the leading figures behind the Left- wing uprising is a tech businessman turned outspoken Corbynista political activist.
Mustafa al-Mansur, 39, rallied protesters outside Kensington Town Hall after learning a family friend had died in Grenfell Tower. As he appealed for calm, protesters forced their way inside and surrounded staff.
Last night it was revealed he has been spokesman for Finsbury Park Mosque for more than a decade – although after the time of notorious hate preacher Abu Hamza.
Mr al-Mansur was once arrested on suspicion of terrorist offences after his fingerprints were found on a book about improvised explosive devices.
Mr al-Mansur, who lives in Tottenham with his wife, said he faced no further action.
At Friday’s protest in Kensington, he said the Grenfell tragedy highlighted lingering issues of inequality, adding: ‘People are calling it a corporate manslaughter.’
Mr al- Mansur has praised Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn recently, writing: ‘Conservative supporters wish and dream that their leaders had an ounce of [his] impeccable character, dignity and principled politics.’