Sharmeena Begum was apparently “radicalised at a women’s charity based at one of Britain’s biggest mosque.” Western authorities are paying insufficient attention to mosques and Islamic charities, assuming that they’re “moderate” on the basis of wishful thinking more than anything else. And whenever an Islamic jihadist is discovered to have attended a particular mosque, mosque officials insist that they barely knew him or that they opposed his “radicalism” — and law enforcement authorities accept it all credulously.
“Britain’s jihadi bride groomer: Schoolgirl radicalised in London mosque recruited her three classmates to join ISIS in Syria,” by Omar Wahid, The Mail On Sunday, August 1, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A teenage jihadi bride who groomed three of her school friends to join her in Syria to fight for Islamic State was radicalised at a women’s charity based at one of Britain’s biggest mosques, it has been claimed.
Sharmeena Begum became one of the youngest British teenagers to join the murderous IS terror group when she fled from her home in East London and travelled to Syria last December aged 15.
Three months later, three of her closest school friends – Amira Abase, 16, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Shamima Begum, 15 – also fled to Syria, triggering an international search to rescue them.
Islamic leaders and some of their family members blamed the internet for grooming the four schoolgirls, who were all pupils at Bethnal Green Academy in Tower Hamlets, East London.
But now it is claimed that Sharmeena was first radicalised inside the East London Mosque, Whitechapel, allegedly by women from a group called Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE). She then allegedly groomed three friends to join her at the meetings.
The IFE previously attracted controversy because one of its founders is a suspected Muslim extremist accused of 18 murders and war crimes in his native Bangladesh.
Family members and relatives of the teenager broke their silence and told The Mail on Sunday that they suspect rogue individuals within the IFE’s women’s wing, known as the Sisters Forum or Muslimaat, advised her to travel to Syria in the wake of her mother’s death. The IFE has denied the claims….