The UK is in an election period. So, you'd expect politicians from all Parties to say & do whatever it took to gain votes for their respective Parties.
Where Corbyn is concerned, though, he has a long history for sympathy of 'dodgy' causes, people and organisations. He's not been above showing support for the likes of the IRA and Hamas, and his Party is embroiled in a scandal where many instances of anti-Semitic prejudice have come from Party members.
When Al-Baghdadi was killed, Corbyn stayed silent about it. No congratulations for taking him out, came from Corbyn. Now, we learn that Corbyn has spoken out against his death.
https://order-order.com/2019/10/28/p...g-al-baghdadi/
Today, Corbyn was heckled about being 'a terrorist sympathiser'.The biggest international news of the weekend was undoubtedly the killing of ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, however the Labour Party seemed surprising quiet over the news, without a single press release or Tweet from Jeremy Corbyn or Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry. Labour strangely silent on this…
The reason for the radio silence may be Jeremy Corbyn”s ambiguity on whether he would authorise a strike on the ISIS leader if he became PM.
Interviewing Corbyn in 2017, Andrew Marr [BBC Political / Current Affairs interviewer] posited:
“the gentlemen in suits walk in and say ‘Prime Minister Corbyn, we’ve got good news for you: al-Baghdadi the leader of ISIS, we know where he is, we can take him out with a drone strike – can we have your permission?’ What do you tell them?”.
Corbyn then spent a minute skirting round the answer, refusing to say he would.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...t-Glasgow.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...t-Glasgow.htmlJeremy Corbyn today insisted that mass-murdering ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi should have been arrested - despite the fact that the terrorist leader blew himself and two of his children up as US soldiers approached.
The anti-war Labour leader questioned the US operation last month that led to the death of the cornered Islamist warlord, whose victims included innocent Britons.
'If we want to live in a world of peace and justice we should practice it as well', Mr Corbyn said in an interview with LBC on the election campaign trail.
The comments came hours after Mr Corbyn's two-day general election tour of Scotland got off to a disastrous start as he was heckled and labelled a 'terrorist sympathiser' when he arrived at an event in Glasgow.
Asked about al-Baghdadi's death by LBC, Mr Corbyn said that 'him being removed from the scene is a very good thing.'.
But he added: 'If it would have been possible to arrest him, I don't know the details of the circumstances at the time.
'I have only seen various statements put out by the US about it, surely that would have been the right thing to do.'
Tory Security Minister Brandon Lewis said: 'Corbyn's comments are yet more proof of his flawed judgement and inability to stand up to people who reject our values.
Every time he is given the opportunity to take the side of this country's enemies he does so.
In one month, Britain could wake up to find him standing on the steps of Downing Street as our Prime Minister.'
Tory election candidate Michael Fabricant added: 'So easy. ''Well, Mr al-Baghdadi, we understand you are the military leader of ISIS. Please accompany me to the nearest police station.'' What planet is Jeremy Corbyn on?'
Responding to Mr Corbyn's suggestion al-Baghdadi should have been detained, Conservative candidate Andrew Bridgen told MailOnline: 'Doing that may have put the lives of the soldiers in danger.
'He is responsible for some of the most heinous crimes committed by Islamic State, many of which against UK citizens.
'This is reinforcing what we already know about Mr Corbyn. He has an inexplicable friendly attitude to terrorists and a history of it.'
Mr Corbyn defended his remarks about Bin Laden, adding: 'If we preach international law and international legal process through the International Court of Justice in The Hague then we should carry it out.