article_snippet: (CNN)Two U.K. charities have stopped funding a Muslim advocacy group that had earlier helped ISIS's masked murderer "Jihadi John," now identified as Mohammed Emwazi, before Mohammed Emwazi radicalization, a Muslim advocacy group that had earlier helped ISIS's masked murderer "Jihadi John said.
article_snippet: Emwazi felt Emwazi was being harassed by authorities and tried to seek legal help to stop it, according to CAGE.
article_snippet: Emwazi, a Kuwaiti-born Londoner, was a "polite" and "beautiful young man" who would drop into the CAGE office with treats to thank the group for helping Emwazi, the group said.
article_snippet: Emwazi came to CAGE in 2009 looking for support when Emwazi felt that British authorities were -- in the words of Asim Qureshi, CAGE's research director -- "harassing" Emwazi.
article_snippet: But Emwazi has now been identified by U.S. officials as the masked man in ISIS videos showing beheadings of Western hostages.
article_snippet: More than a dozen British administrative court documents obtained by CNN reveal British security services initially believed Emwazi was part of a radical West London recruitment network for terrorist groups in East Africa.
article_snippet: This is just another manifestation of their objective of pursuing a Cold War on British Islam," Thomas-Johnson said.