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UK: Olympic legend’s foundation linked to charity run by jihad cleric

May 4, 2014 3:42 pm By Robert Spencer

Queen and Muhammad HusseinMo Farah’s charity is backed by Bono, Sir Bob Geldof, Richard Curtis and Paula Radcliffe. Yet “the body originally charged with delivering Mo’s mission on the ground in the country is headed by Dr ­Musharaf Hussain, an Islamic ­ scholar with anti-West views.” Hussain has exhorted Muslims to wage jihad against the kuffar. Were Bono, Sir Bob Geldof, Richard Curtis and Paula Radcliffe aware of this connection between Farah’s foundation and Hussain? Would they have cared if they had known?

“Say It Ain’t So, Mo – Olympic legend’s foundation is linked to charity run by jihad cleric,” by Dominic Lemanski, Daily Star, May 4, 2014:

OLYMPIC hero Mo Farah’s charity has been linked to a controversial Islamic cleric who has urged British ­Muslims to wage holy war.

The double gold medallist set up the Mo Farah Foundation with his wife Tania in 2011 to help people affected by drought in the Horn of Africa.

So far the charity – which is backed by Bono, Sir Bob Geldof, Richard Curtis and Paula Radcliffe – has raised more than £900,000 for poor ­communities in Somalia.

But the body originally charged with delivering Mo’s mission on the ground in the country is headed by Dr ­Musharaf Hussain, an Islamic ­ scholar with anti-West views.

The Nottingham cleric features in a number of videos on YouTube ­including one in which he uses the offensive ­Arabic term “kuffar” to describe non- Muslims.

He goes on to justify the use of jihad by Muslims against non-believers.

In a 2010 sermon, he said it was a “wise cause” to fight non-believers “because they are tyrants”.

He added: “This is why the Koran says get out and go whether you are lightly armed or heavily armed, whether you have all the means or not, you must take part in this jihad.”

The cleric, awarded an OBE in 2009 for services to community relations, then ranted about Britain and ­America’s involvement in conflicts in Muslim lands.

He is the head of Muslim Hands, a charity that raised an income of more than £13million last year alone.

In accounts posted on the Charity Commission website for the financial year ending March 31, 2013, trustees of the Mo Farah Foundation boasted of their close relationship with Muslim Hands.

They said they helped feed 20,000 people, sunk 50 wells, restored three canals and set up a clinic with Dr Hussain’s help.

Mo Farah, Runner, Olympics, Medal, London 2012, Marathon, Sprint, Usain Bolt, Hussain, Charity, AWARD: Controversial Hussain meets Her Majesty the Queen in 2009 [PA]

Mo’s charity also lists controversial Islamic organisation Tauheedul Relief Trust as a ­ partner on its website. In February the Trust donated £20,000 to the Mo Farah Foundation.

But it later emerged that a school run by the Blackburn-based group forced pupils to wear a hijab in and out of class.

Rules at Tauheedul Islam Girls’ High School also require its 800 pupils to “not bring stationery to school that contains un-Islamic images”. In 2011 Sheikh Abdul Rahman al-Sudais, a Saudi cleric alleged to have referred to Jews as “pigs” and “scum”, visited the school.

Last night Diana Nell – Mo Farah’s sister-in-law, inset, and spokeswoman for the Mo Farah Foundation – claimed the partnership with Muslim Hands was now defunct.

She initially denied any link, saying: “I can categorically tell you we are not partnered with Muslim Hands.”

But when asked why the partnership is mentioned in the most recent report of the trustees, she said: “When we established in 2011 they helped us with ­delivering programmes into Somalia.

“We do not use them now and won’t be doing so in the future.”

Oh, well, that makes it okay. Doesn’t it?

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  1. Mirren10 says

    May 5, 2014 at 7:59 am

    **Anything** that mohammedans are involved in turns out to be nefarious and murky, and enables jihad in some way.

    Just because Farah is an Olympic gold medallist, doesn’t make him any less of a mohammedan. His first allegiance is to the ummah.

  2. Linda Rivera says

    May 5, 2014 at 4:46 pm

    British and European ruling elites are utterly ruthless. They have criminally colonized our little nations with many millions of muslims from huge muslim countries. Population replacement is FORBIDDEN by international law!

    Paul Weston the leader of counter-jihad political party Liberty GB was arrested and can receive 2 years in jail because he quoted in public what Winston Churchill said about Islam.

    Muslims are ALLOWED to call in mosques and in the streets for our murders!

    THERE IS NO ONE TO HELP THE CHILDREN! That is why we desperately need Britain’s Paul Weston’s counter-jihad, political party, Liberty GB! http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/

    Join in the fight for Britain and Western civilization! It is a battle we dare not lose! Or the longest, darkest night the world has ever known will descend on our nations! Help LIBERTY GB’s courageous Paul Weston get elected!
    Join, donate, share, pass out flyers!

    British Schoolgirl’s Testimony – Muslims Threaten Children With Violence & Rape Outside School Daily

  3. chris says

    May 7, 2014 at 3:09 pm

    Why do the general public see the pattern of islam/Muslim = violence crime evil hatred lies …… oh dear I could go on yet that clown Cameron keeps telling me islam is such a peaceful religion and if I do not agree the police may arrest me — bas”rd politicians

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