If there is one thing that characterises the operation of Islamic charities in Britain then it would be a willingness to engage in dodginess or associate with people who are either of questionable morals or who are extremists. To give a couple of examples: We’ve recently had an Islamic charity in Sheffield exposed for appointing a Trustee who has a conviction for handling stolen mobile phones and a high profile mosque in London’s Finsbury Park allegedly connected to the genocidal nutters of Hamas. There has also been an incident of an Islamic school in East London that had a terror fan on its staff who was radicalising children, among other worrying incidents in Muslim run organisations.

Now we can add to the growing list of questionable and dangerous behaviour by Britain’s mosques, ‘Islamic community centres’ and schools, the hosting and employing of Imams who preach sedition against Britain and support for ISIS. According to The National, a publication from the United Arab Emirates (h/t ROP), a mosque in Stoke on Trent has had its management temporarily suspended by the UK Charity Commission following the conviction of their Imam on terror related charges. Personally I think that this is a good move on the part of the Commission but it may not be enough to deal with this particular dodgy Islamic charity. This organisation should have been completely closed down as it is possible that the problems with this organisation go far deeper than having management failures,

Here’s part of The National article on one of the latest mosque scandals to hit the United Kingdom

A UK Muslim charity has had its management temporarily replaced after an inquiry found it failed to stop an extremist preaching at its mosque.

The interim manager will run the administration of the Fazal Ellahi Charitable Trust, excluding trustees, after the UK Charity Commission said it failed to comply with UK laws.

The regulator opened an inquiry on 16 April 2018 over concerns the charity’s Stoke-on-Trent premises were used to condone or support terrorism. On 22 September 2017 its Imam, 40-year-old Kamran Hussain was convicted on six counts of encouragement of terrorism and two counts of encouraging support for a proscribed organisation – ISIS.

The trust ran a mosque and religious classes but was investigated over concerns it was propagating terrorism.

Hussain was sentenced to six and half years in jail after telling children as young as three that martyrdom was better than school. Often he would deliver his speeches in front an ISIS flag and laud the values of terrorist groups.

“Inshallah…we will see the black flag rise over Big Ben and Downing Street,” he told a congregation.

The preacher supported the virtues of killing, martyrdom and violent jihad and endorsed the efforts of those who had undertaken such acts, West Midlands Police said at the time.

The article went on to explain how Hussain was busted by undercover police from the West Midlands force who recorded Hussain’s sermons and gathered evidence that Hussain was openly supporting ISIS. The report also indicates that Hussain was inciting Muslims to commit acts of violence or embrace a violent mindset by making false claims to mosque attendees that ‘far right’ groups were being funded by the Government to attack Muslims. The Nation added that since 2014 the Charity Commission had opened investigations into 35 mosques and other Islamic organisations following suspicions of promoting Islamic extremism or engaging in activities connected to terrorism such as funnelling funds to Syrian terrorists.

Although I welcome the Charity Commission finally taking action against Islamic terror charities, in this case the action they are taking is not nearly enough to deal with the possible scale of the problem at this Stoke mosque. It should have been immediately closed because of the nature of the Imam’s crime and what it says about the mosque itself. The toleration of an ISIS supporting Imam may be an indication of failures that are not merely the fault of senior management, but may be more to do with the culture of the mosque itself, after all the ordinary mosque goers seemed to put up with this. There is the worry here that changing the management will not solve the problem of extremism at this mosque if the problem is in the mosque’s core culture itself. The ordinary Muslims who attended this mosque seemed to have little problem with this Imam giving sermons or running Islam classes at the mosque and we should ask ourselves how much of Hussain’s ranting did they support?

This is just one mosque among many Islamic organisations that have been either proven or allegedly involved in some form of dodginess. These Islamic entities are involved in activities that go far beyond that which should be permitted on the grounds of freedom of religion and are straying into areas that could reasonably be called ‘Sedition’ by calling for the support of ISIS and promoting Jihad. On this occasion West Midlands Police got it right and arrested this ISIS promoter and overt inciter of violence which is to be praised. But, and this should worry us all, there must be hundreds more Imams like Hussain who have not been caught and who may well be being shielded from the law by Islamic communities who to a greater or lesser degree agree with these Imams views. I don’t think Hussain is a ‘one off’, I think he’s just one jihad promoter among many that seem to be all too easily tolerated in the pulpits of Britain’s mosques.