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The head of the UK sect of an extremist Islamist group who led a 'jihad' chant at an anti-Israel rally last month has labeled Hamas terrorists 'freedom fighters' in an explosive interview with Piers Morgan.
Abdul Wahid - real name Dr Wahid Asif Shaida - is an NHS doctor and the head of the British wing of Hizb ut-Tahrir, an international Islamic fundamentalist group that calls for the worldwide implementation of sharia law under an Islamic caliphate.
Dr. Shaida has denied that his group is extremist - but previously labeled the October 7 attacks on Israel that killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, a 'very welcome punch on the nose'.
The doctor, a privately educated mentor and trainer for newly qualified doctors at his surgery in the London suburb of Harrow, said: 'I will defend the right of the Palestinians to resist an occupation.
'(What happened on October 7) is a resistance. Resistance is a right in Islam, it's a right in international law, a right that Churchill said in his History of the English-Speaking Peoples, he wrote in that book it is a primary right of men to kill and die for the land they live in.'