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UK: Mosque officials allowed jihad recruiter to indoctrinate students for three years, obstructed investigation

Sep 8, 2019 9:00 am By Robert Spencer

“Michelle Russell, the director of investigators at the UK’s charity regulator, said it was the worst case of exposure to terrorist material that it had seen because of the trustees’ failure to supervise and manage Haque. They initially claimed to have references for Haque, had done no due diligence on his background, and had not signed a contract – despite claims that they had done. ‘In this case, the children who were in their care, and the people that trusted them to do so, were let down.'”

Were they really? Or is this what they wanted all along? Does anyone know? Does anyone care? Or would investigating such questions be “Islamophobic”?

“London mosque officials failed to halt ISIS child recruiter,” by Paul Peachey, The National, September 6, 2019 (thanks to Henry):

Five senior mosque officials have been banned from office after management failures gave an extremist the opportunity to recruit a ‘children’s army’ of terrorists.

Umar Haque was jailed for life last year after using his position as a school administrator to show beheading videos to children as young as 11 as he tried to groom recruit them into a mini militia.

Haque, 25, worked at an Islamic private school and a mosque in east London, where he staged training exercises during Islamic studies classes to prepare children for ISIS-inspired attacks in London.

An inquiry into the charity that runs Ripple Road mosque in Barking, east London, found that the trustees failed to carry out proper background checks on Haque and then obstructed an inquiry by investigators.

Haque was taken on as an administrator but eventually led classes during his three years at the mosque – posting students as lookouts while he showed them the most extreme violence. He told his students that they should follow ISIS because one day the group would rule Europe.

Some 35 children have required long-term supervision as a result of the attempted indoctrination by Haque at the school and mosque, according to police. It emerged that he was working daily with children aged five to 15.

The grooming only came to light after Haque’s passport was revoked after he attempted to board a flight to Istanbul, with the apparent aim of joining ISIS. After his failure to fly to Syria, he turned his attentions to targets in the UK, including Heathrow Airport and mowing down pedestrians outside the UK parliament.

“We are a death squad sent by Allah and his messengers to avenge my brothers’ blood,” he told an accomplice during a conversation secretly recorded by police.

Michelle Russell, the director of investigators at the UK’s charity regulator, said it was the worst case of exposure to terrorist material that it had seen because of the trustees’ failure to supervise and manage Haque.

They initially claimed to have references for Haque, had done no due diligence on his background, and had not signed a contract – despite claims that they had done.

“In this case, the children who were in their care, and the people that trusted them to do so, were let down….

A second man, Abuthaher Mamun, 19, helped Haque with his classes and was jailed for 12 years for his role in the terrorist plot. Charity regulators only found about Mamun’s role because of the trial and the charity trustees never told them about the role of Mamun at the school.

“It is not known why the former trustees failed to disclose this information to the inquiry,” it said…

Yeah, it’s a real head-scratcher.

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  1. R Russell says

    Sep 8, 2019 at 9:08 am

    Of course it would be Islamophobia for the kufr to interfere

    • mortimer says

      Sep 8, 2019 at 9:39 am

      Response to RR: The authorities get around the accusation of intolerance by renaming ‘jihad’ as ‘terrorism’ or ‘extremism’. Mosques cooperate because they don’t want to be closed for being complicit in terrorism, an illegal activity. Jihad is not ‘extreme’, but every Muslim’s duty.

      This charity that runs Ripple Road mosque in Barking was engaged in a conspiracy and should be forensically audited.

      • R Russell says

        Sep 9, 2019 at 4:57 pm

        Mortimer, It sounds like it is being forensically audited – by the charities commission. I will of course be astonished if the mosque loses its charity status. We need to pay the jizya even if it is in taxes returned.

  2. mortimer says

    Sep 8, 2019 at 9:33 am

    Clueless Paul Peachey of The National concludes that Omar Haque is ‘extreme’. However, according to Sharia law, conducting jihad is a normative duty for all Muslims, one way or another. Haque made the Muslim children aware of their supremacist duty and showed them the techniques that would be required.

    Unfortunately for ‘good’ Muslims like Haque, jihad is virtually illegal in most countries around the world, including in Muslim countries. In other words, Muslims are legally forbidden even in Muslim countries from conducting jihad. The persecution of minorities in Muslim countries (a form of jihad) is also under scrutiny.

    Meanwhile, the globalist press runs interference for the jihadists with articles like this by clueless Paul Peachey who tries to give the impression that anyone who conducts jihad is ‘extreme’.

    Jihad is *not* extreme, but normative, although it is being suppressed because jihad is bad for international business.

  3. Trick_or_Treat says

    Sep 8, 2019 at 10:20 am

    WHY IS IT that just about all of the steely-stone-dead-eyed mugsots you feature here of these deranged looking mothers look like they’ve never ever had one clue about how to properly trim and groom a beard in a civilised manner? It annoys the f**king poo out of me!
    Wankers who wear f**kin’ bow-ties have nearly the same effect on me.
    Don’t feel inclined to engage on any deeper comment tonight, think I’ll just open and knock off one more cold ‘long-neck’ of Coopers Pale and go to bed.

    • abad says

      Sep 8, 2019 at 11:16 am

      Because they are progeny of goats, that’s why.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 8, 2019 at 9:53 pm

      Trick_or_Treat, Anti-Jihadist Bill Warner wears a bow tie–and he’s a good guy, if a bit of a dorky dresser.

  4. Tom says

    Sep 8, 2019 at 10:45 am

    It seems that each and every time that Mosques are found to be the staging grounds for this type of hateful indoctrination that somehow those involved become the victims when it is apparent that, just as in this case, no one challenges or objects to the indoctrination until it is discovered by an outside entity and reported.

    Only then does the Takyya kick in and every single person who attends the Mosque become a saintly victim of Islamophobia.

    This has happened so many times that one would think that the every day person on the street would become wise to the con job that is perpetually being played on them.

  5. Michael Copeland says

    Sep 8, 2019 at 12:36 pm

    The mosque has charity status, which entitles it to tax advantages.
    That status should be revoked. Those actions were not charitable in the slightest.

  6. James Lincoln says

    Sep 8, 2019 at 8:22 pm

    London has been permanently removed from my list of places to visit.

    Tourism will suffer greatly…

  7. gravenimage says

    Sep 8, 2019 at 9:54 pm

    UK: Mosque officials allowed jihad recruiter to indoctrinate students for three years, obstructed investigation
    …………..

    This kind of denial amounts to child abuse.

  8. Angemon says

    Sep 9, 2019 at 12:37 pm

    Umar Haque was jailed for life last year after using his position as a school administrator to show beheading videos to children as young as 11 as he tried to groom recruit them into a mini militia.

    I see what you did there…

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 9, 2019 at 5:02 pm

      Imprisonment for life in the UK seldom actually means for life. I hope his is deported after serving his term.

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