Student left for Syria days after watching speech by head of notorious rights group in which he said Muslims were 'feared and hated' in the West

A British student who was arrested in Turkey on suspicion of planning to joinISIS, attended an event at his university featuring a speaker who said Muslims were 'feared and hated' in the West.

 Mohammed Amoudi sat at the front of the event, organised by the controversial rights group CAGE, which shot to the public's attention after describing Jihadi John as a 'beautiful young man.' Moazzam Begg, director of CAGE, told the audience that the manner in which the position of Muslims today was 'almost identical' to the discrimination and hate faced by Jews during the Holocaust. Mr Begg spoke about his time in Guantanamo Bay before saying how the West's decision to invade and bomb Muslim countries was the reason for the emergence of ISIS. He described how ISIS and al-Qaeda were 'born in the torture dungeons of Egypt and Syria and Britain'.  Another speaker at the event was preacher Haitham al-Haddad, who has previously received criticism for suggesting that apostates from Islam should be sentenced to death by stoning. Amoudi was studying physics at the time when he was at Queen Mary University of London last year and was laos a member of Striving Muslims, a small evangelical Islamic group. He was stopped in Turkey along with two young north west London schoolboys over concerns they were intending to cross the border into Syria.  It was later revealed that one of the 'naive and impressionable' teenage boys who was stopped in Turkey had written jibes about the murder of soldier Lee Rigby on social media.  The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, made comments on social media criticising the 'eruption' of public grief over the murder of solder Rigby, who was brutally killed near the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, south east London in May 2013. One of the teenagers attended Preston Manor School in Wembley, where students were recently told that weekly prayer sessions must be taken only in English amid fears of radicalisation.  CCTV footage showed how an immigration officer checked the passports of each of the teenage boys before telling them they will not be able to proceed to the arrivals hall. They are then escorted to a 'risk and analysis centre' in the airport by officials. All three teenagers were later put on a return flight to London and taken into custody at a high-security police station for questioning.   Officials swooped on the group within minutes of their flight touching down in Istanbul and the trio were brought back to Britain where they were questioned at a high-security London police station on suspicion of preparing acts of terrorism. Sources in Turkey said there is some evidence the three communicated with terrorists about how best to evade the authorities but none of them are believed to be connected to any high-profile ISIS terrorists.