The obvious question: Who is in charge of vetting "charities" on the BBC's behalf? Worse yet, this is not the first time the BBC has drawn criticism for associated personnel "innocently" aiding jihadists. If nobler sentiments like patriotism are lacking, at the very least a desire to avoid further embarrassment should motivate the Beeb to ensure its left hand does know what its right hand is doing.
By Ben Quinn for the Times Online, August 20:
The BBC’s Children in Need charity donated £20,000 to an organisation that funded the propaganda activities of the July 7 bombers, it has emerged.
The financial support was provided between 1999 and 2002 to the Leeds Community School, which funded and shared premises with an Islamic bookshop where the suicide bombers Mohammed Siddique Khan and Shezhad Tanweer regularly met. Siddique Khan attempted to radicalise youths by showing propaganda films at the bookshop, a focal point at the time for young Muslims.
The school in Beeston also paid for adventure weekends, such as a rafting trip to North Wales a month before the London attacks. Tanweer and Siddique Khan went on the trip, along with Khalid Khaliq, who this year was jailed for terrorism offences.
The disclosure that the school received Children in Need funding was made by the BBC Two programme Newsnight, which was told by a former employee of the school that it received hundreds of thousands of pounds from Leeds City Council and other sources.
Martin Gilbertson, an IT technician who worked at the school and the Iqra centre next door, said that he had been concerned about the activities of Tanweer and Siddique Khan. “It was like living with jihad on a daily basis,” he said of the Iqra centre, which was raided by police investigating the July 7 bombings.
David Ramsden, chief executive of Children in Need, said: “I’m
David Ramsden, chief executive of Children in Need, said:
“I can reassure the public that we are very careful in who we fund and this allegation is a very rare one.”
1. It has just been demonstrated that David Ramsden and Children in Need are not "very careful in who [sic] we fund."
2. Noting that "this allegation is a very rare one" is not an answer. It is simply silly.
Here is what David Ramsden, chief executive of Children in Need, ought to have said:
"I am horrified at the revelation that at least 20,000 pounds supplied by trusting donors to our organization went to the Leeds Community School which, in turn, not only funded the bookstore on the same premises where violent jihad was taught, but, as others have noted, 'where the suicide bombers Mohammed Siddique Khan and Shezhad Tanweer regularly met' and where 'Siddique Khan attempted to radicalise youths by showing propaganda films at the bookshop. As well know, both Khan brothers were among those who took part in the murderous July 7, 2005 terrorist attack in the middle of London that was intended to terrorize, through mass-murder, Infidels. What makes this even more horrifying is that, according to an IT technician who worked at the school, the atmosphere was obviously suspicious --but apparently that eluded those who, on our staff -- and on the Leeds Community Council -- who helped to fund this school, and the bookstore, with hundreds of thousands of pounds. Clearly, something is terribly wrong and I will get to the bottom of this at the BBC's Children in Need, and others, no doubt, will wish to investigate the Leeds Community Council and how it directs its funding."
There.
That's better.
This does not come as a surprise I am sorry to say.
I have boycotted the BBC for a few years now based on thier biast coverage.
http://www.actforamerica.org.
Why are these "charities" necessary in the first place? Isn't it enough that we pay an arm and a leg for gas on top of all the aid our wonderful governments hand out to most members of Cesspoolia?
Without infidels financing Koranism it would be indeed finished.
No big deal. I pay my taxes, and by so doing, inadventently have funded terrorists a few times myself.
That's the BBC for you. So hysterically left wing that they think anyone from any other culture than our own is "oppressed" and so cannot possible be guilty of anything.
Watch out for the new BBC charity show JIHAD IN NEED. With Mohammed bear.
The beeb is not embarrassed by the continual stream of damning exposures of their bias, negligence and general malfeasance.
They don't care.
They don't even think about it till their funding is questioned, which is far too infrequent.
They're too superior to the rest of us mere mortals, and too satisfied with themselves to bother about such things.
It will take a lot more to get those bastards' attention than what the rest of us would regard as an embarrassing exposure.