[facebook] Unable to download embed Facebook videos (on other websites than Facebook)

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$ youtube-dl -v http://5pillarsuk.com/2017/06/07/tariq-ramadan-disagrees-with-pr-exercise-by-imams-refusing-funeral-prayers-for-london-attackers/
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://5pillarsuk.com/2017/06/07/tariq-ramadan-disagrees-with-pr-exercise-by-imams-refusing-funeral-prayers-for-london-attackers/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.06.25
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Linux-4.4.0-72-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, ffprobe 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] tariq-ramadan-disagrees-with-pr-exercise-by-imams-refusing-funeral-prayers-for-london-attackers: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] tariq-ramadan-disagrees-with-pr-exercise-by-imams-refusing-funeral-prayers-for-london-attackers: Downloading webpage
[generic] tariq-ramadan-disagrees-with-pr-exercise-by-imams-refusing-funeral-prayers-for-london-attackers: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://5pillarsuk.com/2017/06/07/tariq-ramadan-disagrees-with-pr-exercise-by-imams-refusing-funeral-prayers-for-london-attackers/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 1971, in _real_extract
    doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2539, in compat_etree_fromstring
    doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=_TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2528, in _XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1653, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1517, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: syntax error: line 1, column 0
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 762, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 433, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2796, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: http://5pillarsuk.com/2017/06/07/tariq-ramadan-disagrees-with-pr-exercise-by-imams-refusing-funeral-prayers-for-london-attackers/
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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

I am able to download the video on Facebook website itself but when the video is embedded inside another website it doesn't work.