“Shoebomber Richard Reid and 7/7 bombers Mohammed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer were members.”
“Islamic group ‘with links to Al Qaeda’ wants to open school near Olympic village,” from the Daily Mail (thanks to all who sent this in):
An Islamic group accused of having links to al Qaeda wants to open a school near the 2012 Olympic village.
Tablighi Jamaat wants the school for 500 boys to form part of an 18-acre complex which would include Britain’s biggest mosque for 19,000 worshippers.
The group, which already runs a school in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, has always denied being linked to terror groups.
But the FBI has described it as “a recruiting ground” for al Qaeda.
Shoebomber Richard Reid and 7/7 bombers Mohammed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer were members.
The proposal for the West Ham site has yet to be submitted to Newham Council for planning approval.
At its institute in Dewsbury, teenage boys devote six mornings a week to Islamic history, theology, law, Qur’an recitation and Arabic. Afternoons are set aside for the national curriculum.