British Prime Minister Starmer has invited the Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa to visit the UK for talks.

Formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, al-Sharaa used to be the leader of the Al-Qaeda and ISIS terror groups.

It was his terrorist coalition that, with assistance from the US, UK and Israel, ousted the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. He is also responsible for the slaughter of thousands of Christians in Syria.

The Skwawkbox reports: Since he took power, UK establishment and media figures have claimed that Al-Jolani’s positions with terror groups ISIS and al-Qaeda are now ‘former’ roles and that he is a rehabilitated ex-terrorist. However, Jolani’s forces are largely current ISIS fighters who have been beheading and shooting large numbers of Syria’s Druze, Alawite and Christian minorities since al-Jolani took power, groups they consider ‘apostate’ – and recently issued a video warning that they were coming to drink the blood of Druze and Alawites. These atrocities have been whitewashed by UK ‘mainstream’ media.

Al-Jolani’s ‘HTS’ group remains, at the time of writing, on the UK government’s list of proscribed terror groups:

The al-Qa’ida/HTS proscription entry at the time of writing

Starmer’s invite exposes the fundamental and cynical hypocrisy of his regime. He and his agents are engaged in a ‘lawfare’ war on journalists and others who expose and oppose Israel’s genocide in Gaza, misusing the Terrorism Act against them and prosecuting them – many of them Jewish – for supposedly supporting Hamas, which they claim is a crime because they are on the proscribed list.

Yet he is inviting and certainly granting immunity to the leader of a group that is torturing and beheading minority groups it doesn’t like, all while saying it wants relations with a genocidal Israeli regime that has bombed its facilities and troops and has invaded a large part of Syria – no doubt the reason that Starmer is interested in meeting and rehabilitating the al-Qaeda sub-group.