DARK SIDE OF EXECUTIONER’S UNIVERSITY

WESTMINSTER University has educated two notorious terrorists.

Islamic State executioner Mohammed Emwazi, known as Jihadi John, graduated with a degree in computer programming in 2009.

He later left for Syria where he became an IS poster boy appearing in sick propaganda videos beheading captives including British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning. Emwazi, pictured, is believed to have been killed by a joint US-British missile strike in Raqqa, Syria, in 2015.

Another former student at the university, Muhammad Jakir Ali, dropped out of his law degree and volunteered as an IS suicide bomber. He was killed January 2014 after taking part in ‘martyrdom operation’ in Syria. After Emwazi’s identity emerged, fellow former student Avinash Tharoor, said he ‘wasn’t surprised he had attended my alma mater’.

‘The university has a dark side to its campus culture,’ he wrote in the Washington Post. ‘The ideological climate feels conducive for radicalisation … a place where extremism can fester.’