He was invited by Britain’s largest Islamic group. (Yet the British authorities still think jihadis constitute a Tiny Minority of Extremists.) The seeds for what is happening now in Britain were planted long ago.
“Deobandi scholar accused of ‘preaching hatred towards non-Muslims’ toured mosques in 1993,” Asian Image, April 5, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A Muslim cleric was allowed to tour the UK through Britain’s largest Islamic group to preach jihad, it has claimed.
The Deobandi sect, which controls almost half of the UK’s 1,600 mosques, is said to have allowed Masood Azhar to teach young Muslims that the Quran encouraged murder and urge them to undergo terror training in Pakistan.
Azhar, a former associate of Osama bin Laden who has links to al Qaida and runs a terrorist organisation in Pakistan, was allowed to tour 42 mosques during his month-long tour in 1993.
Shortly before his arrival in Britain he provided bin Laden with jihadi fighters to carry out terror attacks in Somalia.
His UK tour is reported to have acted as a recruitment drive and raised large amounts of money for his cause.
Among those at his sermons were Omar Saeed Sheikh, who went on to behead American journalist Daniel Pearl in Afghanistan, and Rashid Rauf, who helped organise the 2005 London bombings.
Hosted by the Deobandis, an apparently moderate movement that teaches an orthodox view of Islam, Azhar, then 25, preached in London, Birmingham, Lancashire and Yorkshire during his tour.
Details of the trip were recorded at the time by a British Deobandi scholar and published in a magazine in Pakistan, which has since been uncovered by the BBC and shared with The Times.
The claims bring into question arguments that mainstream Islam in the UK has had little to do with radicalisation and creating extremists.
According to the newspaper, Azhar promoted hatred for Christians, Hindus and Jews and glorified murders “for the sake of Allah”.
At a Deobandi boarding school near Bury in Greater Manchester he taught children in a talk entitled “O my dear Prophet, do murders”, that large parts of the Quran urged “murders for the sake of Allah”.
During one seminar in London he told Muslims that “if seeking glory for the name of Allah is fundamentalism and terrorism, then we were fundamentalists and terrorists yesterday, we are fundamentalists and terrorists today and will be… tomorrow”.
Among those who met Azhar – who is now in protective custody in Pakistan – in 1993 was Yusuf Motala, who founded the school in Bury. Asked why Azhar was allowed to teach violence, Mr Motala told The Times they “weren’t able to save themselves from these terrorists”.
The Deobandi movement was founded in India in the 19th century.
A Deobandi spokesman told the newspaper: “We strongly condemn the activities of Masood Azhar and do not agree with his views.” A two-part documentary, The Deobandis, will air on BBC Radio 4 at 9am on Tuesday and on April 12….

Baucent says
The full story on Massod Azhar’s lecture tour of Britain in on the BBC News website. Well worth a read. quite amazing the Jihadist cancer began in Britain so long ago and sympathizers are still holding key positions in British mosques (like Glasgow central mosque)
Bob says
Yet de Wilde, the Dutch anti-Islamist politician wasn’t allowed into the UK!
Cunamarra says
“an apparently moderate movement that teaches an orthodox view of Islam”
The quote is written in the English language but it reminds me that the writer speaks a different language than I do, though English could possibly be the writer’s only tongue. I wish I could cure it, but somewhere along the way educated people have divorced their minds and their language from reality. “Severed from reality with a rabid hostility toward reality” might be a more accurate way of putting it than the term divorce.
Jay Boo says
His — Pretty little hat matches his hijab and Islamic man-dress quite well.
Jack Holan says
Dr Spenser and Pamela the Politicians like George Galloway, Jeremy Corbyn, Marcus Miliband and faceless bureaucrats allow someone such as this into Britain without compunction, teaching those who can effect his teachings and those of the next generation but the two of YOU trying to bring factual truth to the public about demagogues like Masood Azhar and his Quran teachings are denied entry into the Country. Once you arrive; not before you board the Jet and pay your fare but afterwards the tell you that YOU are barred from Entry, not welcome and to go home. The punishment (not that I want to see it) is that with all the Muslim ‘Refugees’ entering England, it will soon become a Muslim Country. I pray the 300,000 British Jews recognize it and make Aliyah or emigrate to other Commonwealth Countries or America.
Angemon says
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight…
Jon says
This story appears on the BBC website. What is fascinating is that even the BBC is almost at the stage where it can join the dots and declare the obvious. It even seems to invite the reader to join the dots and answer that hanging question, ‘Why’. But then of course it does no such thing, and muddies everything up, and the camel in the room is ignored again. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35959202
rlf says
You idiot liberals in Europe are completing the task via stealth that Suleiman wasn’t able to do with the
sword.
Adrian says
Look at a FaceBook group called Unreported Migrant News.