Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn | Andy Rain/EPA Security policy expert slams Jeremy Corbyn’s terror speech Rohullah Yakobi, who fled the Taliban aged 12, said Corbyn ‘ignores the role of Islamic extremism and its world view.’

LONDON — Jeremy Corbyn’s speech linking wars abroad to domestic terrorism was "anti-British" and gives Islamic State “a major propaganda boost,” according to a former refugee and fellow of a security think tank.

Rohullah Yakobi, who fled Afghanistan aged 12 after being held captive and tortured by the Taliban, claimed the Labour leader “ignores the role Islamic extremists play and their world view.”

In a speech Friday, the first since the campaign restarted, Corbyn pledged “change at home and change abroad.”

He cited experts who have “pointed to the connections between wars our government has supported or fought in other countries and terrorism at home.”

"That assessment in no way reduces the guilt of those who attack our children. Those terrorists will forever be reviled and held to account for their actions,” he said.

"But an informed understanding of the causes of terrorism is an essential part of an effective response that will protect the security of our people that fights rather than fuels terrorism."

Yakobi, a Labour Party member and associate fellow at the Human Security Centre, where he researches democracy, human rights and terrorism, moved to Britain in 2004. He said that while he respected those who wanted to debate Britain’s foreign policy, he could not accept Corbyn’s argument.

"Removing or shifting the blame from terrorists and passing it on to the British people at a time when they have just suffered one of the most horrible and barbaric atrocities is just grotesque and disrespectful to the victims, the families, and so this for me is really really really difficult to accept,” he said.

Yakobi, who was born in Afghanistan, said his community was mercilessly attacked by Islamic terrorists in Pakistan, one of the countries where he lived before arriving in Britain.

"So as long as we continue to stand by our values we will be their target, regardless of what we do in terms of foreign policy, in terms of any other things that we do," said Yakobi.

Yakobi said he would stay on in Labour and vote for his local party candidate because the party was “much bigger" than Jeremy Corbyn.

“It will be in Britain’s national interest to have a viable Labour Party post-Jeremy Corbyn,” he said.

“There are still many many people [in the Labour Party] who are still struggling to keep the party sane and keep the party British, not anti-British that Corbyn and his acolytes are trying to turn it into,” he said.