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Islamic State’s key financier was director of Muslim school in UK

Aug 31, 2014 5:24 pm By Robert Spencer

al-AwadiHow far gone is Britain? Practically every day there are new revelations that boggle the mind. As that unhappy land collapses into chaos, civil war, and jihad violence in the streets, its intelligentsia can settle into their bunkers secure in the knowledge that they were never “racist” or “Islamophobic.”

“Revealed: Islamic State’s ‘banker’ was director of a private Muslim primary school in Birmingham,” by Leon Watson, Daily Mail, August 31, 2014:

One of the Islamic State terror group’s key financier was director of a Muslim faith school in Birmingham, it emerged today.

Prominent Islamic cleric Dr Nabil al-Awadi, a naturalised Kuwaiti, was partly resident in the UK until last year, living in Brixton, south London.

Until February 2013, the Sunni was a director of the independent Al-Birr school in Nechells, Birmingham, which was founded in seven years ago.

Now he is president of the Kuwait Scholars’ Union, which has reportedly channelled tens of millions of dollars to the Islamic State and other jihadi groups in Iraq and Syra.

“Kuwait Scholars’ Union”? Islamic scholars? But…but…the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam!

Earlier this month Dr al-Awadi was stripped of his Kuwaiti citizenship along with nine other Kuwaitis, after the state cited ‘security reasons’.

He has also been accused by other prominent clerics in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia of using donations to fund the Islamic State.

Dr al-Awadi, who is also reportedly close to the Muslim Brotherhood, claims he is part of a collective fundraising campaign for Syria by Kuwaiti charities

In June he said: ‘Pressure has been put on me to stop collecting aid to Syria,’ adding that directives from the Kuwaiti government ‘were clear: Syria is over’.

But he said money is still finding its way through back channels.

The £1,500-a-year mixed school he was a director of has also been accused of having close links to the radical Al-Muntada Trust, the Sunday Telegraph reported.

The London-based trust has attracted controversy in the past for giving a platform to radical clerics.

It also attracted scrutiny when it was alleged some of its funds have ended up in the hands of Boko Haram, the militant Islamist group in Nigeria.

The trust said it has never had any connection with Boko Haram and that it condemns terrorism in all its forms.

In July 2012, it ran a conference with al-Awadi and another jihadi cleric, Muhammad al-Arifi, who has now been banned from Britain.

Al-Arifi is banned now only as a face-saving gesture: the week before Pamela Geller and I were banned from Britain, he was let in again.

Al-Arifi allegedly groomed Nasser Muthana and Reyaad Khan, two young Cardiff men who became the first Britons to appear in an IS propaganda video.

The trust has said it has no links to terror organisations and says it is ‘delivering much needed aid to refugees in bordering countries’.

Khalid Mahmood, MP for Birmingham Perry Barr, the Sunday Telegraph: ‘For too long this country has tolerated in its midst people who are actively working to destroy us and everything we stand for.

‘With the rise in the threat level, we can simply no longer allow it.’

Indeed. But to oppose it would be “Islamophobic.”

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  1. Neil Jennison says

    Aug 31, 2014 at 5:51 pm

    I agree with the thrust of the article but we in the UK are not quite at “chaos and civil war” yet !

    At the moment we appear to be exporting most of our Jihadis to Syria.

    • Islamisdeath says

      Aug 31, 2014 at 6:57 pm

      Yeah but they are coming back trained to kill you dear Neil and last I heard Anjem Choudray et al were still in the UK preaching jihad on the streets and the TV. How bout the estimated 1400 girls being used as sex slaves in Rotham? No there is no fighting on the streets in the UK right now but can it be far away?

      • Godfrey Kemal says

        Sep 1, 2014 at 8:15 am

        Well said. Just a matter of time really. Tick tock.

        UK has arbuably the most fertile cesspool in Western Civilization for growing Radical Jihadis.

      • Neil Jennison says

        Sep 1, 2014 at 11:15 am

        Political correctness was the cause of the Rotherham tragedy. Actually, Rotherham is the tip of the iceberg, it has happened all over here in England. Oxford, Blackburn, Birmingham…….

        The social workers involved were so terrified of identifying the perpetrators as Muslims of Pakistani extraction, because they would be labelled “racist” and lose their jobs. The whole culture of the UK police and government is like that now.

        Tony Blair made it immeasurably worse by bringing in what he liked to call “hate crimes”. Whereby any offence is made more serious if anyone involved thinks it was done for racial motives.

        The UK is no longer a free country.

    • tom says

      Aug 31, 2014 at 7:31 pm

      Hi Neil, wake up dude. Check the papers or the internet every now and than. It hurts me to say but people lIke you really don’t know what’s going on and unfortunately there are way too many people like you and that is the biggest danger there is; THEY LIVE AMONGST YOU. You are nothing, you are an infidel, all you are allowed to believe in is evil Allah. You are the enemy to them and you don’t know

      • JFKAR says

        Sep 1, 2014 at 4:08 am

        I am an American who has been married to an Englishwoman for 33 years and who has lived in England (mostly in SW suburban London), and I am sick of reading all these snide comments and ridiculous caricatures about the situation over here vis a vis Islamists from ignoramuses who live in the country that elected Obama to office twice.

        Not everyone here is involved in operation Head in the Sand. Many, many of us know exactly what’s been going on in the UK, and to those of us who live here don’t need your patronizing warnings.

        So STFU!

      • Will says

        Sep 1, 2014 at 6:18 am

        Tom – Neil said “…we in the UK are not quite at ‘chaos and civil war’ yet” which doesn’t indicate that he’s unaware of what is going on in the UK. If you think the UK actually is in chaos and civil war or even close to it, then I suggest that you are the one who needs to wake up and become informed.

        And what do you expect us infidels here in Britain to do? Go out and buy hand guns?!

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 31, 2014 at 7:31 pm

      Neil, what will you do when these Jihadists come flooding back in to Britain?

      I say this not to taunt—it is a deadly serious concern.

      • Neil jennison says

        Sep 1, 2014 at 11:08 am

        Don’t misunderstand me, I am fully aware of the threat of Islam and I do my best to warn people that Islam is a dangerous, evil ideology which is incompatible with western values.

        I just don’t think hyperbole that is manifestly untrue helps the cause.

        I would also suggest that verbal abuse of Muslims is unhelpful too, the attacks should be on Islam, the faith and the ideology.

        • Will says

          Sep 1, 2014 at 11:22 am

          I agree with every word you’ve written here, Neil. But keep in mind that hyperbole by definition is not to be taken literally. And hyperbole is standard ‘Americanese’. Few Americans speak or listen as literally as most English people do.

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 1, 2014 at 6:56 pm

          I would also suggest that verbal abuse of Muslims is unhelpful too
          …………………………

          Does that mean that we should not say anything negative about Nabil al-Awadi?

          I love Britain—my mother was English, and my aunt and cousins still live in England.

          I also recognize Britain as the mother of the anglophone world—together, the most advanced countries in history.

          I am heartbroken at what is happening there—which is *very* different from gloating over it.

          I am also distressed that we in the US—and the rest of the West—seem to be heading down that same path.

  2. gravenimage says

    Aug 31, 2014 at 7:58 pm

    Islamic State’s key financier was director of Muslim school in UK

    How far gone is Britain? Practically every day there are new revelations that boggle the mind.
    …………………………….

    God help me—at this point I am dismayed and disturbed by stories like this, but no longer shocked.

    More:

    Until February 2013, the Sunni was a director of the independent Al-Birr school in Nechells, Birmingham, which was founded in seven years ago.
    …………………………….

    What do we know about this school? Who runs it now? What has it taught over the past seven years?

    Is it breeding the next generation of Jihadists?

    I’ve checked the school’s web site and reviews, but there is very little information about it—even about its official status.

    “Al-Birr” translates as piety, righteousness, and obedience to Allah”. We all know what *that* means…

    • Bamaguje says

      Sep 1, 2014 at 3:51 am

      Just think about all those little Jihadis he must have brainwashed and nurtured in his Madrassa… future terrorists?

  3. cliffface says

    Aug 31, 2014 at 8:33 pm

    Lucky the USA saved Kuwait’s ass when Saddam was trying to say ” look i might be bad but my neighbours are extreme !.
    You swapped Saddam for ISIS and Gaddafi for extremists which has now opened the gates to Europe for extremists.
    Obviously nothing left to do but give the Saud’s an award for their contribution to humanity.

    • Godfrey Kemal says

      Sep 1, 2014 at 8:16 am

      Yes, and do not forget Saudi Arabia is a permanent member of the UN’s Human Rights Council. How’s that for credibility?

  4. GWhizz says

    Aug 31, 2014 at 8:53 pm

    This is like the France/Britain/US period between Sept 1939 and the invasion of Belgium and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. No body knew what to do until their backs were against the wall. Luckily Roosevelt had started LendLease and was just waiting for a trigger to side up the with Brits. Remember prior to WW2 there were many who believed in the German cause. I believe Joe Kennedy was recalled from England based on his pro-Nazi sentiments. Remember he was Irish and had to love for the Brits. We are just waiting for a major blow from the jihadi scum. The Saudis will fund that blow and promptly declare they need help from the free world so they don’t get overthrown by other Islamic scum. Either Obama is a genius for letting them kill one another or he is a sunni pawn. It will be interesting to see who lives through this mess. I just don’t want to lose any american kids to these worthless jihadists.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 1, 2014 at 7:01 pm

      We already have lost American kids to these worthless Jihadists.

      The only question—as it was in the 1930s—is whether we are going to oppose this evil, or just roll over for it.

  5. David says

    Sep 1, 2014 at 5:29 am

    Please remove from this
    “As that unhappy land collapses into chaos, civil war, and jihad violence in the streets,”
    the words chaos and civil war.
    It is not that bad yet. I say this as a friend who really wants everyone in the UK to listen to you, don’t give the useful idiots ammunition to ignore you.
    Of course no one knows what will happen in the future, 10 years ago I didn’t think British citizens would be cutting off heads in Syria in 2014.

    • Neil jennison says

      Sep 2, 2014 at 2:29 am

      That is exactly it David.

  6. tpellow says

    Sep 1, 2014 at 6:07 am

    Yes, there is an Islamic continuum between the Trojan Horse Muslims working for the Islamic State within the West, and outside the West.

  7. Neil Jennison says

    Sep 2, 2014 at 2:27 am

    Gravenimage,

    No, I was talking in general. If a particular Muslim has said something that deserves to be criticised then of course, we should say what we think and point it out to everyone.

    What I meant was it is unhelpful to criticise Muslims in general for two reasons. Firstly, it is obvious that many people who identify themselves as Muslims are NOT nasty, unpleasant people who wish us harm or subjugation even though that is what their religion teaches.
    Secondly, a blanket criticism of Muslims (rather than Islam) makes people just ignore the message – they cry “racist ” if you like.

  8. Brazooka says

    Sep 2, 2014 at 1:03 pm

    Britons had better clean up their house or they will choke on the filth. Let there not be one left.

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