A trainee lawyer has caused controversy after posting a twenty-minute rant online encouraging Muslims to stop apologising for the attacks by extremists which left 17 people dead in France.

Aysh Chaudhry, 22, is an employee of one of the world’s biggest law firms, Clifford Chance, and has since apologised.

The Walthamstow man claimed any Muslims apologising for the atrocities have adopted western values, urging them instead to stand up for Islam.

He refers repeatedly to non-Muslim people as kuffar, stating that UK Muslims have no need to be grateful for their benefits of permission to build mosques as their ancestors’ land was pillaged and colonised.

During the YouTube video, posted on January 11, which has had thousands of hits, Mr Chaudhry a member of a group called 'Call to Dawah' in Leyton hits out at ‘apologetic’ Muslims.

He said: “We would not be here had it not been for the fact that the kuffar had gone to our lands and killed out people and raped and pillaged our businesses.

“We need to move away from this apologetic tone and understand and have confidence in Islam. We are enslaved otherwise.

“There are things we do not take and indeed we do not need to take from the kuffah.

 

Full video posted by 'Call to Dawah'

 

“We have become infatuated with the civilization and the kuffar and their beliefs and their values and indeed we have latched on to these.

“You see some brothers are grateful to the kuffar and are willing to apologise, just because the kuffar has built them some masjid and given them some grants.

“We need to remove the Western cultural lense by which we are viewing and responding to attacks in Islam.”

The video, which is titled ‘IAmCharlie and NotInMyName vs IamMuslim #MuslimsRejectLiberalValues’ appears to hit directly at Leyton-based counter extremism charity Active Change Foundation.

ACF began the #Notinmyname campaign last year.

Videos of young people condemning the acts of Isis in the name of their religion went global.

Mr Chaudhry said he is not supporting terrorism, but trying to encourage intellectual debate after apologising for the video.

However, it can still be found online.

In the rant, he claims he is addressing the events in Paris.

He calls on Muslims to move away from British values, including freedom of speech.

He said: “You are trying to argue from a basis which in itself is alien to Islam.

“This concept of freedom of speech that you are talking, this ideal concept about which you are talking doesn’t exist in reality.

“This is a value stemming from secular, liberal beliefs.

“In reality, freedom of speech translates as being civil and regulated speech towards everyone but an absolute freedom to insult Muslims.”