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waterpark bans bikinis and orders visitors to wear 'Islamically appropriate' clothes

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A BRITISH waterpark has sparked fury by banning bikinis and ordering visitors to cover up in "Islamically appropriate" clothing.

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Staff will guard the entrance to the waterpark (not pictured) to make sure no men come in
WaterWorld in Stoke-on-Trent plans to black out windows and provide a prayer room during a women-only night aimed at Muslims.
Only female lifeguards will patrol the park during the event, which has triggered a flood of complaints.
Staff will also "guard" the front entrance to "make sure that no males enter the facility".
In a statement on its Facebook page, a spokesman for WaterWorld said the Sisters Only event would “attract ladies of all religions/beliefs as we invite you to visit our facility and enjoy its features whilst having the option of wearing attire that our normal operating procedures prevent”.
Conservative MP Philip Hollobone said: "I imagine there would be a lot of outrage if the boot was on the other foot and swimmers were told they had to dress appropriately in respect of Christians. I don’t see how this is different."
One invitation to the "Sisters Only Funday" advises attendees to cover their "awrah" (nudity) by wearing full-length jogging bottoms and a dark-coloured t-shirt.
An advert for the Sisters Only Funday at WaterWorld in Stoke on Trent
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This advert advises attendees to wear full-length clothing
Protesters are now planning to demonstrate outside the event.
WaterWorld owner Mo Chaudry said: "I'm astonished that we have been targeted. We feel we've been victimised for offering something that we feel there is a demand for."
A WaterWorld spokesman told Breitbart London: "We pride ourselves in having the adaptability and diversity to cater to demands of our guests.
"This is a female-only event and is not specific to any ethnic or religious group."
The session is scheduled to take place outside the centre’s normal opening hours, meaning it would not restrict access to the facilities for those who did not want to comply with the additional dress requirements, the statement added.
Burkini swimwear would be approriate
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Burkini swimwear would be 'approriate'

School head who banned pupils from putting up Christmas tree is struck off

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 Jahangir Akbar, 38, has been banned from teaching for at least five years after investigators found he "failed to uphold public trust in the profession and maintain high standards of ethics and behaviours"
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Banned from teadching: Jahangir Akbar
A school principal caught up in the so-called Trojan Horse scandal in which staff with hardline Muslim views allegedly sought to promote Islam over other faiths has been struck off.
Jahangir Akbar has been banned from teaching for at least five years after investigators found he "failed to uphold public trust in the profession and maintain high standards of ethics and behaviours".
His actions and inactions also "undermined fundamental British values of mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs", the National College for Teaching and Leadership panel found.
Mr Akbar, 38, acting principal at Oldknow Academy in Birmingham, was found to have decreased the diversity of religious education for pupils - aged seven to 11 - and banned the school from holding Christmas performances or putting up a Christmas tree "in order to have more time to focus on teaching and learning".
In a ruling published by the Government, the panel said that "by decreasing the diversity of religious education and eliminating a diverse range of cultural events, there was a failure (by Akbar) to promote the spiritual, moral, cultural and mental development of pupils at the school".
NewsteamOldknow Academy in Small Heath, Birmingham
'Trojan Horse' school: Oldknow Academy, Birmingham
Mr Akbar also "reacted inappropriately" by shouting at a parent when challenged about his daughter's education, and said he was "glad" when a pupil was said to have been bullied.
He was said to have acted dishonestly and also put pressure on staff to countersign cheques for expenditure which had not been properly authorised.
The acting principal also allowed members of the school's parents' association to have unrestricted and/or unaccompanied access to the school, without them having undergone police checks - a safeguarding risk, the panel found.
Oldknow was inspected by the Education Funding Agency (EFA) and Ofsted when the Trojan Horse scandal broke, with an explosive and anonymous letter alleging hardline Muslims were involved in a co-ordinated plot to take over some schools in Birmingham.
The previously outstanding school was rated as "failing", with "inadequate" ratings for behaviour and safety, after the inspections in April 2014.
It converted to an academy two years earlier, meaning it was not required to teach religious education from an agreed syllabus.
Oldknow Academy has subsequently been renamed as Ark Chamberlain Primary Academy.

Tunnel walker asylum win is a threat to national security

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Mike_Hookem.jpegUKIP MEP, Mike Hookem has slammed British immigration authorities that granted asylum to a migrant who walked through the Channel Tunnel from Calais, calling the decision a “nonsensical threat to national security” and “a come on” to others migrants who would risk their lives walking through the tunnel to reach England.

Mr Hookem, who spent the summer examining the migrant crisis in Northern France said, “This man broke numerous laws in both France and the UK to access and then walk through the Channel Tunnel; as well as risking both his own and the lives of others.”

“Now, instead of prosecuting him and holding his case up as an example of what will happen to those who break the law, UK immigration authorities have seen fit to reward him with the ultimate prize of granting asylum.”
“This decision does nothing more than suggest to the thousands of migrants currently waiting in Calais that if you survive the walk you can expect a warm welcome from the UK government and all the benefits of asylum in the UK.”

“As this man is now officially classed as an asylum seeker, it is more than likely any criminal charges he faces will be dropped; sending the message that asylum takes precedence over any of the laws that the citizens of this country must abide by.”

“This decision is nonsensical and will act as a ‘come on’ to every migrant in Calais who is willing to put their life at risk to reach the UK.”
“The fact is what he did was dangerous in the extreme and could have resulted not only in his own death, but the deaths of passengers and staff in the Euro Tunnel. If you or I did anything like this, we could expect nothing more than a hefty prison sentence.”

“This man’s actions also expose serious security flaws in the Channel Tunnel operation which must be addressed as a matter of urgency. This incursion could have had disastrous consequences if this man had of had terrorist intentions.”

Tory Zac Goldsmith accuses mayoral rival Sadiq Khan of 'playing the race card'

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The Conservative candidate for mayor of :London has previously accused Labour's candidate of "radical politics"

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Tensions are rising between the two candidates
Tory Zac Goldsmith today accused his mayoral rival Sadiq Khan of "playing the race card", as the contest for London's top job grew increasingly bitter.
Before Christmas, Mr Goldsmith said Mr Khan's "divisive and radical politics" would mean fewer affordable homes, less reliable transport and divided communities.
In response, the Labour candidate's team suggested the Tory's choice of words could be seen as a "coded racist attack."
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Goldsmith said changes in the Labour Party in the last few months had been "extraordinarily radical".
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Zac Goldsmith accused Sadiq Khan of playing the race card
He added: "I think he is playing with fire. I don't think there is anything more divisive than playing the race card when clearly, unambiguously, it does not apply.
"It 's very obvious that what I was referring to when I described him as a radical candidate as part of a radical process that has enveloped the Labour Party and taken our politics in an extraordinary direction."
A spokesperson for Mr Khan's campaign said: "It was the Zac Goldsmith campaign which put out the infamous dog-whistle leaflet branding Sadiq as "radical" just because he happens to be a Muslim.
ReutersLondon mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan gestures during an interview with Reuters during an interview with Reuters at Canary Wharf in London, Britain November 17, 2015.
In response, Sadiq Khan's team accused Goldsmith of dog-whistle politics
"And it was Zac Goldsmith's campaign which had to launch an investigation after alleged racist remarks from a Tory canvasser to a voter.
"Their campaign is already so desperate that they've resorted to [Tory election guru]Lynton Crosby's divisive dog-whistling because they simply have no answers to the challenges London faces like fixing the housing crisis and keeping fares down."
It's the latest in a string of bitter rows between the two main candidates in May's election.
Yesterday, Mr Khan accused Mr Goldsmith of never having had a "proper job".
Challenged to say whether he would be " Jeremy Corbyn 's man in London" if he takes office at City Hall, Mr Khan told the BBC: "I think I am my own man."
And he added: "Jeremy Corbyn isn't on the ballot paper in the May mayoral elections. Nor is David Cameron .
Nigel French/PA WireLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn with London mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan MP and fans protesting for workers to earn the living wage
Mr Khan maintains he is not "Jeremy Corbyn's man"
"I am. So I have got to set out over the course of the next 120 days who I am."
The Tooting MP said the windfall tax was one of a number of examples of areas where "it is important for me to be my own person".
But he added: "What I am not going to do is for the next three months differentiate myself from Jeremy Corbyn , because I will speak for my own policies and my own vision for this great city, and let Jeremy do the important job of being leader of the Labour Party."
He declined to comment on speculation of an upcoming reshuffle in the shadow cabinet.
Jeremy Corbyn is the leader of the party. That is a decision for Jeremy to take. My job is to tell Londoners why they should lend me their votes to make London an even greater city than it already is."

Europe's governments may be desperate to cover it up but Cologne proves that many Muslim men have NO respect for white women - or the cultures of the countries they are invading

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The moment when displaced people became so angered by their miserable migrant lives, they decided to take it out on the women of Cologne.

The head of police said there was a relaxed atmosphere, and the New Year’s Eve celebrations passed off peacefully.

Yet there were two rapes, 100 attacks on women, and gangs 1,000-strong harassing and thieving from others. And still we are not supposed to talk about it.

Attacks: Hundreds of people gathered in front of Cologne's main railway station on New Year's Eve (pictured) before disorder broke out and groups of 'Arab or North African' men attacked dozens of white women
Attacks: Hundreds of people gathered in front of Cologne's main railway station on New Year's Eve (pictured) before disorder broke out and groups of 'Arab or North African' men attacked dozens of white women

One of the victims, identified only as Katja L, told the Kölner Express: 'When we came out of the station, we were very surprised by the group we met, which was made up only of foreign men…We walked through the group of men, there was a tunnel through them, we walked through…I was groped everywhere.

'It was a nightmare. Although we shouted and hit them, the men didn’t stop. I was horrified and I think I was touched around 100 times over the 200 metres.' 


Eight days after all this happened, I am not allowed to say these were migrant gangs with no respect for white women.

The BBC will only say these were men of North African or Arab appearance, a line fed to them by the German authorities.

In time they will say race was not the issue. Just as the police did in Rochdale before the mass grooming of white kids was finally revealed. By nine Asian men.

We are still supposed to buy into the big multicultural ideal which dictates we should welcome migrants with open arms, blow whistles and applaud them as they descend from trains with their iPhones and expectations. 

'I'm scarred for life': Cologne victims speak out after ordeal

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Brave: One of the first victims to speak out about the Cologne New Year's Eve attacks, an 18-year-old named Michelle (pictured), described being surrounded by a group of 30 'angry' men who groped her
Another victim, known only as Jenny (pictured), was left with horrific burns after a firework was shoved into her hoodie
Brave: One of the first victims to speak out about the Cologne New Year's Eve attacks, an 18-year-old named Michelle (pictured left), described being surrounded by a group of 30 'angry' men who groped her. Another victim, known only as Jenny (right), was left with horrific burns after a firework was shoved into her hoodie
Young girl describes sexual assault in Cologne on NYE

We should offer our kitchens and bedrooms to these displaced peoples and cry at pictures of bodies washed ashore when they don't make it over winter seas they should never have crossed.

How about all those do-gooders who said they would welcome them into their homes?

 How is that going, Saint Geldof? Do you have a family in your second home?

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown? Do you have a family of fifteen in your spare room as you said you would when you wept live on radio? 

No, I thought not.

We need to face up to some hard truths.

Cologne is a small case study for scenarios playing out all over Europe. It is a story repeated at Calais, across Germany and into France. And in African and Arabic countries where sexual violence is the norm.

White women are nothing to some Islamic and Arabic men. It's the reason our girls were abused in Rochdale and Oxford and the reason white German women were raped in Cologne
White women are nothing to some Islamic and Arabic men. It's the reason our girls were abused in Rochdale and Oxford and the reason white German women were raped in Cologne.

They see us as white trash. And we are no longer safe. These migrants are a cultural time-bomb, brought up in a different era, Islamic Bernard Mannings — incompatible with modern life.

The Mayor of Cologne blames the women.

She says German women should cover up, keep men at arm’s length and think about wearing something over our heads. She may as well just say 'buy a burka' and be done with it.

The Guardian feminazis are caught in a monumentally difficult place, their usual outrage over victim-blaming for rape kicked quietly into touch so that they can tiptoe quietly around the issue of race and culture.

And in this difficult space, in the pressure cooker of Europe, things are on a knife edge. 
As borders are sealed, people are contained into ever-tighter spaces, news is suppressed and truths are locked down.

There is no air left for even the screams of assaulted German girls to be heard in their own country where the Merkel government has ruthlessly managed coverage of its catastrophic decision to let in a million migrants at a stroke. 
Fireworks thrown into crowd outside train station in Cologne

A group of men (not suspects in the attacks) set off fireworks during the New Year celebrations in Cologne
A group of men (not suspects in the attacks) set off fireworks during the New Year celebrations in Cologne

This could be the moment when everything simmering beneath the surface finally erupts into violence on an unprecedented scale.

This could be the day we say it all started: New Year’s Eve 2015.

Brussels cancelled their fireworks. Paris cancelled theirs, too. France deployed 60,000 troops nationwide and London cancelled all leave for armed personnel and deployed them on our streets.

And the police forces of Cologne lied about the violence in their city, said the night passed off peacefully and later blamed the women for their rape.

Europe turned on its own and the medieval instincts of a migrant culture won.

Perhaps we will look back in 2016 and acknowledge this was the moment when civil war in Europe became a real possibility.

Migrants will rise up from the jungle of filth and squalor, bolstered by evil extremists imported for the fight. And on other side patriots will defend whatever is left of their pride in the country they once loved.

I stand with the women of Cologne. And I will continue to fight to defend the country I used to call home.

Islamic hate preachers 'who were caught heading towards the Middle East' despite a travel ban are jailed for two years

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  • Simon Keeler and his friend Trevor Brooks, 40, were arrested in Hungary 
  • Pair were convicted in April 2008 of inciting terrorism and other charges
  • Men were required to notify police three days before any overseas travel
  • Admitted 'serious and deliberate' breach of counter-terrorism restrictions 
Two Islamic hate preachers who were told they were not allowed to leave the UK have been jailed after being caught 'heading towards the Middle East' just days after the Paris attacks.

Simon Keeler, 44, and his friend Trevor Brooks, 40, were arrested in Hungary on a train bound for Bucharest, Romania, in November last year.

The pair, who were both convicted in April 2008 for terrorism charges, had been required to notify police three days in advance of any overseas travel but failed to do so.

Trevor Brooks (left), and Simon Keeler (right) have been jailed after being caught 'heading towards the Middle East' just days after the Paris attacks despite a travel ban
Trevor Brooks (left), and Simon Keeler (right) have been jailed after being caught 'heading towards the Middle East' just days after the Paris attacks despite a travel ban

A spokesman for the Hungarian police said at the time of arrest it was possible the men were travelling to Syria - but the duo insisted they were going to visit family in Turkey.  

The pair today admitted a 'serious and deliberate' breach of counter-terrorism restrictions at the Old Bailey and were sentenced to two years in prison.

Karen Robinson, prosecuting, said it was clear the men intended to travel for some time.

The court heard the men were carrying nearly £8,000 in sterling, euros and Hungarian forint, and had 'tough weather' clothes and supplies.

Keeler also had nine pairs of socks on him along with toothpaste and toothbrushes. 

Brooks (centre) was arrested with Keeler in Hungary on a train bound for Bucharest, Romania, in November last year
Brooks (centre) was arrested with Keeler in Hungary on a train bound for Bucharest, Romania, in November last year
The pair, who were both convicted in April 2008 for terrorism charges, had been required to notify police three days in advance of any overseas travel but failed to do so. Above, Keeler is taken to a court room in Budapest on November 19
The pair, who were both convicted in April 2008 for terrorism charges, had been required to notify police three days in advance of any overseas travel but failed to do so. Above, Keeler is taken to a court room in Budapest on November 19

The men were said to have boarded a lorry in London in a bid to avoid border controls and travelled to the continent where they found their way to Hungary. 

It only emerged that they were subject to a European Arrest Warrant after they had been detained. 

Viktoria Csiszer-Kovacs, spokesman for the Hungarian police, said at the time it was unclear where the men were heading but speculated they may have been on their way to Syria.  

Ms Robinson added in court today: 'Both men... were well aware of the requirements upon them.

'The inference to be drawn from items in their possession is that they used covert means or clandestine means to leave the UK.

'Travelling under their own names, they would have both been stopped from travelling.' 

Tanveer Qureshi, defending, denied the claims the men were trying to travel to the Middle East or were trying to flee and said Keeler was attempting to find his wife and six children, who had been somewhere in Turkey since October 2014.

He said: 'He became very desperate, missed his family, wanted to know what was going on.
‘Brooks was going to help Keeler look for his family, knowing full well they were not able to leave the UK.’

Keeler, of Shadwell, east London, and Brooks, of Clapton, east London, were convicted in 2008 of fundraising for a terrorism purpose and inciting terrorism.

A spokesman for the Hungarian police said at the time of arrest it was possible the men were travelling to Syria. One of the men is pictured at Budapest's Ferenc Liszt Airport being deported back to the UK in November
A spokesman for the Hungarian police said at the time of arrest it was possible the men were travelling to Syria. One of the men is pictured at Budapest's Ferenc Liszt Airport being deported back to the UK in November

The charges related to speeches they had made in a London mosque four years earlier.

Following appeals, the defendants' sentences were set at three and a half years but the travel restrictions applied for a decade. Keeler has also been convicted previously of possessing false identification documents.

Mr Justice Saunders, sentencing, called the breach 'serious and deliberate' and stressed the importance of counter-terrorism restrictions.

He said: '[The restrictions] are particularly important at this time when there has been recent terrorism activity in several European countries and the fear of further terrorist attacks is intense. 

'Both of these defendants have been convicted of terrorist offences in the past and Parliament has decided that to protect the public, law enforcement agencies should know where convicted terrorists are when they travel abroad so that a check can be kept on their movements.'

He added that he accepted that neither defendant was planning a terrorist attack at the time and accepted their explanation for the trip.  

Brooks was born in Britain to Christian parents of Jamaican origin. He converted to Islam at the age of 17 with one of his brothers and changed his name to Abu Izzadeen.

Former builder Keeler became the first white British Muslim to be convicted of terrorism offences.

He was acquitted in July of planning to travel to Syria to join ISIS after being found in the back of a lorry at Dover. 

There is no indication that either man was involved in the Paris attacks.


Teenage student, 18, is fined £90 after lying that she was punched in the face because she wore a hijab in the days after the Paris terror attacks

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  • Miss Choudhury said she was attacked in Birmingham city centre
  • Police launched an investigation into the incident and trawled CCTV  
  • Their inquiry revealed that the student had completely made up the attack  
  • Miss Choudhury was fined £90 for wasting West Midlands Police's time 
Miss Choudray posed for pictures that would not identify her, two days after she reported the 'attack'
Miss Choudray posed for pictures that would not identify her, two days after she reported the 'attack'
A Muslim teenager has been fined after she lied about being punched in the face because she wore a hijab in the days after the Paris terror attacks.

Student Miss Choudhury, 18, said she was attacked on New Street in Birmingham because she was wearing Islamic headwear.

She told police that she was knocked to the floor in the racist attack and that other Muslims in the area were being targeted following the French massacre, which saw ISIS jihadists kill 130 people and injure 352 at various locations in Paris in November last year.

Speaking about the made-up attack on November 23, 2015, Miss Choudhury, who did not want her first name to be revealed, said she had been left too scared to walk through in the city alone.

She said: 'I feel shocked and really scared that someone could attack you for no reason. I don't feel safe at all now.

'I was walking to the train station to meet some friends when someone shoved me from behind.

'When I turned around he punched me in the face and then just went off.
'I was really upset afterwards. I can only think it was because he saw my hijab as he didn't take my bag or anything.

'I've lived in Birmingham all my life and I've never experienced something like this before. 

'It's made life harder for innocent Muslims. We don't want people to be killed, that's not our religion. Our religion is all about peace.

'My parents are so scared that they're telling me to take my hijab off. My mum's telling me to wear a hat instead.' 


Despite her claims, investigations by West Midlands Police revealed that Miss Choudhury had made up the attack.

Detectives trawled through CCTV footage in and around Birmingham's main shopping street in a bid to identify an offender from the November 23 'attack'.

They even accompanied Miss Choudhury on a walk through the city centre to help her pinpoint the exact location of the attack.

But after monitoring her movements on footage from that morning, officers found no evidence of the alleged assault.

West Midlands Police revealed she has now been fined £90 for wasting police time.

Student Miss Choudhury (pictured two days after she reported the 'attack'), 18, said she was attacked on New Street in Birmingham because she was wearing Islamic headwear 
Student Miss Choudhury (pictured two days after she reported the 'attack'), 18, said she was attacked on New Street in Birmingham because she was wearing Islamic headwear 
She told police that she was knocked to the floor in the racist attack and that other Muslims in the area were being targeted
She told police that she was knocked to the floor in the racist attack and that other Muslims in the area were being targeted
Speaking about the made-up attack on November 23, 2015, Miss Choudhury, who did not want her first name to be revealed, said she had been left too scared to walk through in the city alone
Speaking about the made-up attack on November 23, 2015, Miss Choudhury, who did not want her first name to be revealed, said she had been left too scared to walk through in the city alone

Superintendent Andy Parsons, from West Midlands Police, said: 'Detectives spent countless hours looking through footage from the network of city centre CCTV cameras in a bid to piece together what happened.

'The footage shows her walking normally along New Street and at no stage does she appear in distress or seen reacting to anything.

'There is no evidence she was physically assaulted and she was given a penalty notice for wasting police time.

'Hate crimes are taken very seriously.

Student Miss Choudhury, 18, said she was attacked on New Street (pictured) in Birmingham because she was wearing Islamic headwear
Student Miss Choudhury, 18, said she was attacked on New Street (pictured) in Birmingham because she was wearing Islamic headwear

'Birmingham is a multicultural city and everyone should be free to go about their lives without fear of being verbally or physically abused simply because of who they are.

'But lying to the police is a serious offence.

'It can divert crucial police resources away from investigating real crimes and helping true victims and will lead to a fine, caution or potentially a jail term for perverting the course of justice.'

MP Goading UK Govt Into Banning Donald Trump Is Muslim Socialist Who Campaigned For Obama

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Ms. Siddiq, whose job is to represent the interests of her constituents, has called Mr. Trump “corrosive” in a statement to the Telegraph newspaper, following the news that Mr. Trump would pull over £700m in investment in Scotland if UK MPs recommended to ban him from the country.
She said yesterday: “The United Kingdom should not be held to ransom by corrosive billionaire politicians. In our country, money doesn’t buy the right to sew discord and hatred in our communities.
“Donald Trump’s threats about withholding investment from the UK is another desperate attempt to get in the headlines and anyone seeing his comments should reject his bigotry.”
She hasn’t yet commented on how much foreign funding is ploughed into UK academic institutions, mosques, and communities by the likes of Saudi Arabia – with the express intent to “sew discord and hatred” in Britain.
Ms. Siddiq was elected to Parliament to represent the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency in May 2015. She beat her Liberal Democrat opponent, and radical Islam critic Maajid Nawaz, who has spent the better part of his life campaigning against Islamic extremism.
The ‘British Bangladeshi Who’s Who’ magazine listed Ms. Siddiq on page 110 of 120, stating: “She has campaigned for political parties internationally and in 2008, she campaigned for Barack Obama in the United States.”
The magazine also notes her involvement with Labour politicians Oona King and Sadiq Khan – the latter of whom is running for Mayor of London, and has been the lawyer for Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam, and former Guantanamo Bay detainees.
She was one of five out of nine Muslim, Labour Members of Parliament who helped elect Jeremy Corbyn to the leadership of the Labour Party by sponsoring his initial candidacy within the party.

Pupils taking GCSEs and A-levels face timetable shake-up to accommodate fasting Muslims

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  • Subjects such as English and maths could be set at start of exam season
  • Comes after Ramadan has gradually crossed over into summer exam block
  • Exam boards insist they listen to comments from a wide range of groups
  • Want pupils to 'observe Ramadan without detrimental impact on exams' 
Hundreds of thousands of teenagers will have to take key exams earlier than usual this year to help Muslim pupils fasting for Ramadan.

The GCSE and A-level schedule has been rearranged so that some exams in key subjects are clustered before the start of the Islamic holy month.

Where maths and English tests do fall during the festival, a larger number than usual are being held in the morning.

Changes: The GCSE and A-level schedule has been rearranged so that some exams in key subjects are clustered before the start of the Islamic holy month (file picture)
Changes: The GCSE and A-level schedule has been rearranged so that some exams in key subjects are clustered before the start of the Islamic holy month (file picture)

This is to avoid disadvantaging fasting pupils who can suffer low energy levels in the afternoon.
The Joint Council for Qualifications, which represents exam boards, said timetable allowances would be made where possible in subjects with large numbers of entries.

Several core maths exams appear to have been shifted to earlier dates than last year, meaning candidates will have fewer days to revise.
Similar measures are likely to be in place for at least five years, until Ramadan no longer clashes with the exam season.

The holy month, which runs from June 6 to July 5 this summer, moves backward through the calendar by around 11 days a year.

Q&A ON THE EXAMS SHAKE-UP 

What is happening to this summer’s exams and why?
Exam boards have scheduled some GCSEs and A-level examinations taken by most pupils – like English and maths – before the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
This year, the festival falls between June 6 and July 5, which overlaps with a significant proportion of exams. 
Muslims observe fasting during daylight hours and there are concerns it will have a detrimental impact on their results. 
Officials will also aim to timetable exams with ‘consideration’ – meaning earlier in the day – so Muslim pupils can concentrate better after their pre-dawn meal.
What will it mean for pupils?
Hundreds of thousands of pupils will take some exams up to a week earlier than in previous years – meaning they have less time to revise.
However, many subjects will be unaffected because they are less popular, while others were already scheduled before the start of Ramadan.
There will also be an increase in the number of important exams being held in the morning. 
Such measures are likely to be adopted by boards for at least the next five years, while the month of Ramadan continues to clash with exam season.
How have the different exam boards responded?
AQA appears to have shifted several key maths exams to earlier dates this year by comparison with last year’s timetable, and those remaining during Ramadan will be scheduled in the morning.
English examinations are unaffected as they were held early last year also.
OCR is holding all of its English and maths exams in the morning, and these exams appear to be clustered toward the beginning of the exam season.
Why is Ramadan an issue now?
Ramadan moves earlier by around 11 days in the calendar every year, and only comes full circle about every 33 years. 
Last year there was a smaller overlap between Ramadan and the exam season.
The last time this situation arose was in the early 1980s when Muslims made up only an estimated 1 per cent of the population compared with almost 5 per cent now.
Why have I not heard about this change before?
Similar arrangements were announced for last year’s exams, but there was less of an overlap so it did not make much difference. 
The issue was raised again in a Commons education committee session yesterday morning, when children’s commissioner Anne Longfield was questioned by MPs.
Tory MP Suella Fernandes asked how Muslim pupils could be accommodated over Ramadan.
The children’s commissioner said discussions were being held around revised arrangements. JCQ later said there would not be a ‘delay’ but confirmed that some exams would be reshuffled.
Muslims avoid food during daylight hours, eating before dawn and after dusk instead.
The exam boards said that the timetable would not see drastic changes but yesterday campaigners questioned whether special allowances should be made.

‘They should let things be,’ insisted Colin Hart, of the pressure group Christian Concern. ‘How can you start changing the rules for everybody just to accommodate those particular pupils who are Muslims, who are in a minority?

‘We don’t live in Saudi Arabia where they need to fit the exams around sharia principles. It’s wrong imposing this festival on everybody else.’

Keith Porteous Wood, of the National Secular Society, said: ‘If there are a significant number of Muslim students that are affected and calling for a change, they should be accommodated, but only if this can be achieved with no or minimal disruption.’

According to the latest census, 2.71million Muslims live in England and Wales – making up 4.8 per cent of the population.

Sir Iqbal Sacranie, founding secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said: ‘The decision is fair and just. But this is not a special privilege and it is within the JCQ policy, which is welcomed and appreciated.

‘People often accuse Muslims of demanding special rights and provisions. We don’t want them.
‘This is of particular relevance when it comes to accommodating faith communities for their religious festivals, particularly Muslim and Jewish communities, who follow the lunar calendar.

‘Religious communities need to be able to celebrate their festivities without being burdened by examinations on these special days.’

Similar plans to accommodate Muslim students were announced for last year’s exams, but the effect was minimal because Ramadan began on June 18. The exam season runs from late May through to the end of June.
The plans for this summer have been in place for up to 12 months, but emerged only during a Commons education committee session yesterday.
In a statement, the JCQ said it consulted on the timetable every year and considered comments from a wide range of groups, including schools, colleges and faith groups.
A JCQ spokesman added: 

‘The small window in which examinations can be taken, the large number of candidates taking examinations and the diverse range of subjects available to candidates, places significant limitations on the changes that can be accommodated for any one group.

‘However, JCQ meets the needs of various groups as far as possible. JCQ and the qualifications regulator Ofqual have previously met with Muslim groups to discuss the timetabling of examinations in light of Ramadan moving into the examination period.

‘Where possible, large entry GCSE and GCE subjects are timetabled prior to the commencement of Ramadan and consideration given to whether they are timetabled in the morning or afternoon.’

Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the union was meeting with Muslim faith leaders to discuss Ramadan, and plans to issue guidance to schools and colleges ahead of the exams.

He said: ‘The guidance will be non-prescriptive and will not advise families or students on how they should address the question of fasting. 

'School and college leaders are very keen to work with communities to ensure young people are able to observe Ramadan without any detrimental impact on their examinations.’

How can you start changing the rules for everybody just to accommodate those particular pupils who are Muslims, who are in a minority?
Colin Hart, Christian Concern
JCQ’s statement was issued after children’s commissioner Anne Longfield was asked by the education committee about the impact of Ramadan falling over the exams period.

In response, she said she was not aware of the detail but that she understood there were discussions under way around changing the timetable.

Teachers first raised concerns about the impact of Ramadan on Muslim teenagers two years ago, arguing that if students go into their exams hungry or thirsty it could affect their results.

Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said last night: ‘As educators we want all children to be able to achieve their best in exams that are so crucial to their future.’

Iraqi refugee 'who smuggled 3,000 migrants into UK as part of massive people-trafficking ring'

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  • Basak Ahmed Sleman, 33, helped sneak up to 3,000 asylum seekers to UK
  • Illegally smuggled 20 people a day into UK five days a week since May 2015
  • He is fighting extradition to Belgium and has been given leave to stay here
  • Has pledged to use human rights legislation to prevent being sent back
An Iraqi refugee helped sneak up to 3,000 asylum seekers into Britain as part of a massive people-smuggling ring, a court was told yesterday.

Basak Ahmed Sleman, 33, abused his permission to stay in the country by illegally smuggling 20 people a day into the UK five days a week since May 2015, it is alleged.

He is fighting extradition to Belgium, having been accused of being a linchpin in a gang running a major human-trafficking operation bringing entire families into Britain from the continent stowed away in lorries.   

An Iraqi refugee helped sneak up to 3,000 asylum seekers into Britain as part of a massive people-smuggling ring
An Iraqi refugee helped sneak up to 3,000 asylum seekers into Britain as part of a massive people-smuggling ring

Despite a string of previous convictions for using fraudulent identity documents, Sleman has been given leave to remain in the UK, the court heard.

Sleman, who has lived in the UK for 15 years, has pledged to use human rights legislation to fight extradition to Belgium, where he would stand trial and faces prison if convicted.

He argues that sending him to stand trial across the Channel would breach Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights which safeguards privacy and family life.

During a brief hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court yesterday, he refused to be extradited.

Sleman and Shamel Zorab, 37, are wanted by the authorities in Belgium for their connections to a Kurdish criminal network which exploited asylum seekers.

The ring is thought to have earned millions from migrants – many fleeing war and humanitarian disasters in the Middle East – who are desperate to be smuggled into the UK from Belgium.

During the hearing, Carl Kelvin, prosecuting, said Sleman had 'worked five days a week trafficking up to 20 people on each occasion, including whole families, for financial gain as part of a criminal network'. Urging magistrates to deny the Iraqi bail, he said: 'It is feared, if released, this person would fail to surrender.

 This person has a previous conviction for having false registration cards and possessing improperly obtained identity documents belonging to somebody else.'

Both alleged people-smugglers were detained on European Arrest Warrants on Thursday as part of an operation co-ordinated by the National Crime Agency.

 Sleman was arrested in Birmingham and Zorab in Eccles, Manchester. Ten suspected people-traffickers have already been arrested in Belgium and await trial there.

They are accused of taking money from migrants they brought across Britain's porous borders. The migrants, including Iraqis, Iranians, Afghans, Indians and Pakistanis, would be loaded into trucks at motorway service stations before crossing the Channel.

Euan Macmillan, for Sleman, said: 'He is a refugee in this country. He is an asylum seeker from Iraq who has been in this country for 15 years.

'He has never left the country for those 15 years because he has no identity documents.'

Zorab, also from Iraq, also refused to be extradited. He has several convictions in the UK, including a burglary in 2012, driving offences and community order breaches, the court heard. He has lived in Britain since at least 2003.

Deputy chief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot remanded both men in custody until Thursday.

Colin Williams, of the National Crime Agency, has previously said: 'We believe this crime group is involved in attempting to smuggle people into the UK on an almost daily basis, and our co-operation with the Belgian authorities continues.

 With our international partners we will continue to disrupt criminals involved in organised immigration crime, making it harder for them to operate across the UK border.'

'It's fine to hit a wife who doesn't please you': What Islamic cleric is telling students as he tours British universities unchallenged... and he's not alone

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  • Egyptian cleric Fadel Soliman told students to do the hitting with a stick
  • Preacher's one of many extremists permitted to voice views unchallenged
  • Universities are legally required to stop extremists radicalising students
  • Up to 19 universities could now face an inquiry by education watchdog  
An Islamic cleric who defends domestic violence is among a string of extremist speakers touring British universities unchallenged, the Mail Investigations Unit can reveal.

Egyptian cleric Fadel Soliman spoke at five such events last year, using them to refer Muslim students to an online lecture series in which he speaks in favour of hitting women and outlines the Islamic case for sex slavery and polygamy.

Mr Soliman told students at Sheffield University that watching his lectures could be ‘a turning point’ in their lives.

In his extraordinary videos, he advises physical punishment for wives who have displeased their husbands, saying ‘the hitting must be done with a small stick’.

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Egyptian cleric Fadel Soliman (pictured) spoke at five such events last year, using them to refer Muslim students to an online lecture series in which he speaks in favour of hitting women and outlines the Islamic case for sex slavery and polygamy
Egyptian cleric Fadel Soliman (pictured) spoke at five such events last year, using them to refer Muslim students to an online lecture series in which he speaks in favour of hitting women and outlines the Islamic case for sex slavery and polygamy

Explaining why it is necessary, he says that when a husband is unhappy with the behaviour of his wife, ‘after passing through two stages of non-physical interaction, the next stage must involve something physical, in order to escalate the intensity of the warning’.

The preacher is one of several extremists being permitted to espouse their views unchallenged at Britain’s universities – in a possible breach of the Government’s counter-extremism strategy, Prevent. Since September, universities and colleges are legally required to have policies to stop extremists radicalising students on campus. This includes an obligation to ‘ensure those espousing extremist views do not go unchallenged’.

The Mail revealed yesterday how CAGE – the notorious organisation which called Islamic State killer Jihadi John ‘a beautiful young man’ – has participated in at least 13 university events 
since September, calling on students to sabotage Prevent.
The true implication of the spanking is to sound an alarm that the husband has passed to a new stage of serious displeasure. 
Egyptian cleric Fadel Soliman 
Another group, MEND, an Islamist organisation whose director has condoned the killing of British troops, appeared in at least ten events on campuses across the country last term.

And a speaker from an organisation which mocked last year’s Charlie Hebdo terror attack in Paris spoke at a student event despite having being refused permission, using the platform to tell students the State was ‘fundamentally racist’ and they should oppose Prevent.
Home Secretary Theresa May said the revelations show universities need to do more to stop ‘damaging, extremist rhetoric’ going unchallenged on campuses.

Up to 19 universities where the Mail identified extremist-linked speakers or events could now face an inquiry by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, it is understood.

Lord Carlile, one of Britain’s top legal experts, said last night that universities that allowed Mr Soliman to speak unchallenged had ‘failed in their duty of care’. He said: ‘This is a person who has given at least tacit approval to what sounds like criminal behaviour. Universities really should not be permitting people like this on to their campuses.’

Mr Soliman is thought to have spoken at Nottingham, Leicester, Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield universities. He urged young Muslims to watch his disturbing 30-part video series endorsing violent and extreme practices.

In one, he suggests it is acceptable for a man to hit his wife, if she repeatedly ‘goes out and refuses to say where she’s going’. He says: ‘The hitting must be done with a small stick’ and ‘should not be painful’, adding: ‘The true implication of the spanking is to sound an alarm that the husband has passed to a new stage of serious displeasure.’

The preacher is one of several extremists being permitted to espouse their views unchallenged at Britain’s universities – in a possible breach of the Government’s counter-extremism strategy, Prevent. Mr Soliman explained the hitting of wives should be carried out with a small stick (pictured)
The preacher is one of several extremists being permitted to espouse their views unchallenged at Britain’s universities – in a possible breach of the Government’s counter-extremism strategy, Prevent. Mr Soliman explained the hitting of wives should be carried out with a small stick (pictured)

WHAT IS MUSLIM ENGAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT (MEND)?

It is the extremist-linked organisation known for its links with radical Islamists - including one who said ‘every Muslim should be a terrorist’.
And now Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND) is turning its attention towards universities.
The controversial group has taken part in no fewer than ten university events this term, the Mail can reveal.
MEND, previously called iEngage, was removed as administrative support to the all-party parliamentary group on Islamophobia in 2011, due to concerns that it was linked to extremism.
It has defended several extremists, including in 2010, radical preacher, Zakir Naik, who stated that ‘every Muslim should be a terrorist’.
The group’s then chief executive, Mohammed Asif, wrote to Theresa May, to protest against her ban on Naik.
And its outreach director Azad Ali has repeatedly drawn criticism for his extreme views, suggesting the killing of British troops is justified, questioning whether the Mumbai attacks were ‘terrorism’, and that ‘democracy, if it means at the expense of not implementing the Sharia - of course nobody agrees with that’.
At one MEND-linked event called Muslim Women in the West at SOAS on 25 November, speaker Zara Huda Faris told young women that Islamophobia is so bad in the UK it is comparable to the plight of Jews in Germany during the rise of the Nazis.
Also speaking was Sahar Al Faifi who suggested Islamic State is a creation of ‘power structures’ in the West ‘who it’s within their interest to fuel Islamophobia’.
MEND also took part in other university events in the North of England and the Midlands.
Last night MEND said there had ‘never been any substantiated links’ between its organisation and extremism ‘and all allegations to the contrary are false.’
The organisation denied it had any role in organising the ‘Muslim in the West’ event at SOAS. The spokesman added: ‘Universities are required to comply with the Prevent statutory duty. If you consider that a breach of this duty may have occurred, we suggest you put these concerns to the university directly.’
A SOAS spokesperson said: ‘As a university, we provide a forum for speakers who speak on a variety of subjects and represent different viewpoints. These events were legal and no concerns were raised with us by local police or Prevent officers.’
In another video he says it is forbidden for men and women to ‘engage in frivolous talk’, that ‘men and women should lower their gaze and avoid unnecessary eye contact, especially with lust’. He says Muslims should avoid interacting with members of the opposite sex, even at work, and women should not wear perfume as it ‘arouses men’. In other videos, he outlines the Islamic case for sex slavery and polygamy.
At an event at the University of Sheffield on December 3, Mr Soliman urged 120 Muslim students: ‘Put these videos on your Facebook pages, share it with people.’ He was also allowed to speak at the University of Manchester last month, despite concerns being raised by university staff. At the event, the cleric said: ‘They told me not to say anything controversial.’
Mr Soliman denies he supports domestic violence. He said: ‘I have provided the Mail with a detailed response to the allegations which are published in this article and informed them in detail why I am not guilty of the things which they allege against me. Once the paper is published, I will respond to the allegations on my own website.’
It’s within their interest to fuel Islamophobia. It’s within their interest to sell more weapons. It’s within their interest to make the Middle East unstable. 
 Speaker Sahar Al Faifi
He has a strong following among young female students. The Sheffield event – which was not formally segregated but at which men and women sat on opposite sides of the hall – had an audience of more than 100 students, mostly female.
Beforehand, groups of young women could be heard discussing how much they ‘love’ Mr Soliman – even making swooning gestures and fanning themselves. One woman in her early 20s, who travelled from London, told others how excited she was to see the cleric in person.
Debora Green, Head of Student Support and Wellbeing at the University of Sheffield, said: 'External speakers play a central role in university life and allow students to be exposed to a range of different beliefs, challenge other people’s views and develop their own opinions.
'Like all universities, the University of Sheffield adheres to UUK guidelines and we have our own protocols and procedures that have to be satisfied before external speakers are given the green light to speak at campus events. This event was no exception.
'The University takes its role in preventing people being drawn into terrorism extremely seriously and is committed to protecting the safety of our staff and students. We are actively involved in the Government's Prevent strategy and have had strong partnerships with the police and security services for a number of years.'
Another organisation allowed to speak unchallenged at recent university events is MEND – a radical Islamist group that has been associated with a number of extremist statements. MEND’s head of community development, Azad Ali, has suggested the killing of British troops can be justified.
He has also said that the 2008 Mumbai attacks, in which a gang of Islamist militants slaughtered more than 160, were ‘not terrorism’ and that implementing Sharia law was more important than democracy.
Last year MEND supported hardline Indian preacher Zakir Naik – who claims that ‘every Muslim should be a terrorist’ – calling on the Government to revoke a ban on him travelling to the UK. Despite this, it was permitted to host ten university events last term.

SUPPORTERS OF THE NOTORIOUS BLIND SHEIKH: WHAT IS THE ISLAMIC HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION?

The so-called Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) is best known for when - in an extraordinary insult to those murdered by terrorists - it bestowed ‘Islamophobes of the Year’ awards to the murdered staff of Paris magazine Charlie Hebdo.
But speakers from this controversial organisation were repeatedly welcomed onto university campuses last term, with no opposition presented to their views.
Like Cage and Mend, the IHRC has been involved in the Students not Suspects university movement, which campaigns against the government’s counter-extremism policy, PREVENT.
The group had speakers at two of such events and on both occasions their claims went unchallenged.
Lena Mohamed, an IHRC advocate, chaired a SOAS talk called ‘Preventing Prevent’ on 29 September, where she encouraged students to sabotage PREVENT.
At a similar event at the University of Manchester, Mrs Mohamed spoke on the panel even though she had been refused permission to do so.
She denied extremism was an issue at universities, and also described ‘the state’ as ‘fundamentally racist’.
The university said they had refused her permission to speak because they were not provided enough notice to make the necessary checks.
At the end of the event, when an audience member asked what can be done about extremism in universities, she appears to deny extremism is a problem on campuses. She says: ‘Islamic extremism…it’s pretty much stayed level for a number of years now. There has, however... exponential rise in far-right extremism.’
She adds: ‘I admire this idea that there is a problem with extremism, especially as the government defines it.’
The IHRC, claims to be a non-profit organisation, ‘working with different organisations from Muslim and non-Muslim backgrounds, to campaign for justice for all peoples’.
However, their main focus appears to be supporting Islamic extremists.
Individuals they have supported include the ‘Blind Sheikh’, Omar Abdel Rahman, who is currently serving a life sentence in the US for his part in the first blowing-up of the World Trade Centre in 1993.
The IHRC also provides a ‘resource’ page on its website directed at encouraging students – and even schoolchildren - to disrupt anti-extremism measures at schools and at university campuses.
The page provides a link to a ‘model motion’ for students’ unions to use to campaign against Prevent.
Under a section titled ‘How to fight back’, the web page states: ‘If you have been approached by a PREVENT officer or feel that you will be referred to one based on questions asked by your teacher / lecturer/ GP / social worker etc contact us for advice and support.
‘We can help you respond to their Islamophobic questions, explain your rights and explore options to challenge them if they try to refer you to Channel.’
A spokesman for the IHRC said: ‘Our opinion on the racism of the British state and the various institutions, including the media, can be found in various articles on our website.
‘Likewise, our opposition to PREVENT is well documented and our views are shared by many individuals and organisations, from unions, teachers, lecturers, students, lawyers and academics to some politicians,’ the spokesman added.
‘As a human rights organisation we support everyone’s rights, regardless of whether we agree with them.’
He said the resource page was ‘for organisations to share materials ideas and resources.’
They denied they had been involved in organising any of the events.
A SOAS spokesperson said: ‘As a university, we provide a forum for speakers who speak on a variety of subjects and represent different viewpoints. These events were legal and no concerns were raised with us by local police or Prevent officers.’
A University of Manchester spokesman said Lena Mohamed ‘was told she would not be able to join the panel at the Students not Suspects event because the request was made far too late.’
The spokesman added: ‘Our due diligence procedures cannot be completed in such a short space of time.
‘The University of Manchester is committed to Free speech within the law.’
At one MEND-linked event, at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, speakers suggested the treatment of Muslims was akin to Jews under the Nazis. They also suggested IS had been created by ‘power structures’ in the West. One speaker, Sahar Al Faifi, said: ‘It’s within their interest to fuel Islamophobia. It’s within their interest to sell more weapons. It’s within their interest to make the Middle East unstable.’ These views went unchallenged at the event, entitled Muslim Women In The West.
Another group given platforms at student events is the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC). It is notorious for bestowing an ‘Islamophobes of the Year’ award on the murdered staff of Paris magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Like CAGE and MEND, IHRC has been involved in the Students Not Suspects university movement, which campaigns against Prevent. An advocate of IHRC, Lena Mohamed, was invited to lead a talk at SOAS in September, where she encouraged students to sabotage counter-extremism measures at universities.
At an event in Manchester, Mrs Mohamed denied extremism was an issue at universities and said the State was ‘fundamentally racist’. Yesterday a SOAS spokesman said the school was confident it upheld its duties under Prevent, adding: ‘We provide a forum for speakers who ... represent different viewpoints. We encourage open debate and aim to create an atmosphere where all perspectives can be aired and challenged.’
MEND said there had ‘never been any substantiated links’ between it and extremism ‘and all allegations to the contrary are false’. It denied it had any role in organising the Muslim Women In The West event at SOAS.
IHRC said: ‘Our opposition to Prevent is well documented and our views are shared by many individuals and organisations, from unions, teachers, lecturers, students, lawyers and academics to some politicians. As a human rights organisation, we support everyone’s rights, regardless of whether we agree with them.’ 
 
Students are at greater risk of being radicalised by Islamic State as a result of CAGE’s campus campaign, warned former reviewer of UK terror legislation Lord Carlile (pictured)
Students are at greater risk of being radicalised by Islamic State as a result of CAGE’s campus campaign, warned former reviewer of UK terror legislation Lord Carlile (pictured)
Mail is praised for exposing how our students are at risk 

Students are at greater risk of being radicalised by Islamic State as a result of CAGE’s campus campaign, a former reviewer of UK terror legislation warned last night.
Lord Carlile said universities, including King’s College London, SOAS, Manchester and Birmingham, that allowed representatives from the controversial group to speak unopposed at student events last term had been irresponsible.
CAGE is ‘helping the propaganda’ put out by IS by misleading students into believing they were being spied on and victimised, he said.
He led a furious reaction yesterday to the Mail’s revelation that extremists have been allowed to spout their views unchallenged at UK universities. Students attending the talks would be more vulnerable to being radicalised as a result of such messages and CAGE was unwittingly helping the IS cause, Lord Carlile said.
‘Somebody convinced by CAGE that the West has it in for Muslims, and that it treats them in a seriously discriminatory and unjust way, will be low-hanging fruit when it comes to Islamist recruitment. Apologists for what happened in Paris – for example on the basis that no children were killed – are misleading students.’
He called on the universities involved to investigate the events concerned. ‘The universities revealed in the Daily Mail investigation are extremely reputable… I would expect them all to re-examine their policies as to what is permissible on their campuses,’ he said.
Other experts also criticised universities for not doing more to hold extremist views to account.
Terror expert Professor Anthony Glees said CAGE were ‘craven apologists for terrorism’ and exactly the kind of ‘non-violent extremists’ the new Prevent rules for universities were supposed to crack down on.
‘This is very disturbing. Universities are providing a safe space for CAGE to brainwash young people,’ he said.
‘I hope that the outcome will be the exclusion of CAGE from our campuses and particularly from Islamic student societies.
The universities revealed in the Daily Mail investigation are extremely reputable… I would expect them all to re-examine their policies as to what is permissible on their campuses. 
Lord Carlile 
‘The Mail is doing us a huge national service by exposing the activities of CAGE in such detail.’ Rupert Sutton, director of Student Rights – run by the Henry Jackson Society think-tank – said: ‘Extremism on university campuses remains a serious issue.
‘The sheer number of events logged last term where extreme or intolerant speakers spoke without challenge suggests too many universities are not properly enforcing their own speaker policies.
‘Groups like CAGE have sought to undermine counter-extremism work for years, so it is no surprise to see them now targeting students.
‘The toxic message of persecution and oppression spread at these events risks driving anger and misplaced grievance in students, while urging those best-placed to notice the signs of radicalisation in vulnerable individuals to boycott policies designed to ensure those people get help is disgraceful.’
Last night Birmingham University said CAGE ‘had not been referenced’ on the application or the promotional material for the event it hosted, adding it ‘takes the threat of extremism on campus very seriously’.
King’s College London said it had not been aware of all the speakers in advance of a CAGE event held there but added that it did not consider they had incited hatred or violence.
Manchester University said a senior representative was at the event it hosted and ‘we do not believe extremist views were espoused’. 

Mother who posed her toddler son with an ISIS balaclava and an AK47 is found GUILTY of fleeing with him to Syria to join the terror group

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  • 26-year-old fled UK for Syria because she wanted to live under sharia law
  • Mother took her toddler and both were later pictured in ISIS balaclavas
  • She was found guilty of joining ISIS and encouraging acts of terror
  • She's the first British woman to be convicted after returning from warzone
  • Shakil used to enjoy watching The Only Way is Essex and lived in Staffordshire before becoming radicalised and travelling to Syria
Tareena Shakil has been found guilty of taking her son and joining ISIS and encouraging terror on the internet
Tareena Shakil has been found guilty of taking her son and joining ISIS and encouraging terror on the internet
A British mother has been found guilty of taking her toddler son to Syria to join terror group ISIS.
Tareena Shakil fled to the war-torn region in October 2014 after telling her family she was going on holiday to Turkey.
She was found guilty of terror offences at Birmingham Crown Court today, becoming the first British woman to be convicted after returning from the extremist heartland.
The court heard the 26-year-old, who used to live in Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire and adored watching The Only Way is Essex, posed her boy for pictures wearing an ISIS-branded balaclava before returning home claiming she'd 'made a mistake'.
During a two-week trial at Birmingham Crown Court, Shakil had denied the charges, claiming she only travelled to Syria because of a wish to live under the rule of sharia law.
However, the jury did not believe her account after seeing tweets, messages and photographs, including images of the black flag of ISIS and passages calling on people to 'take up arms', and stating her wish to become a 'martyr'.
She was found guilty of being a member of ISIS and encouraging acts of terror, becoming the first British woman to be convicted after return from the terror heartland.
Judge Melbourne Inman QC told Shakil - who looked stunned by the verdicts - that she would be sentenced on Monday.

The Recorder of Birmingham said: 'You may go down and be remanded in custody until Monday's sentence.'
Shakil initially told police that she was kidnapped from a beach by a man she met on holiday in Turkey, taken to Syria and forced to send out propaganda Tweets for the organisation.

Shakil sent photographs of her son in Syria, including one image showing him sitting next to an AK-47 machinegun. The caption of the picture describes him as 'Abu Jihad al-Britani'
Shakil sent photographs of her son in Syria, including one image showing him sitting next to an AK-47 machinegun. The caption of the picture describes him as 'Abu Jihad al-Britani'
The 26-year-old also posed with her son wearing a black balaclava bearing the slogan of ISIS 
The 26-year-old also posed with her son wearing a black balaclava bearing the slogan of ISIS 
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But in court she admitted she had been in an abusive relationship with the boy's father and was seeking to start a new life.
Detectives believe she was married off to an ISIS fighter as a jihadi bride and that the marriage went sour within weeks.
Shakil, pictured at East Midlands Airport with her toddler before they boarded a flight to Turkey en route to Syria
Shakil, pictured at East Midlands Airport with her toddler before they boarded a flight to Turkey en route to Syria
In a conversation with her father on WhatsApp, in mid-December 2014 while living under ISIS rule, she told him: 'I want to die here as a martyr.'
She later claimed these messages were sent under duress by female ISIS minders.
Jurors heard that before going to Syria, Shakil had chatted online with 'prominent IS member' Fabio Pocas.
She was also in touch with Sally Ann Jones, the British widow of Birmingham jihadi Junaid Hussain who was killed in a drone strike in Syria last year.
There were further signs of growing radicalisation, including searches for videos of Anwar al Awlaki, an al-Qaeda-linked extremist who was killed in a US drone strike in Yemen in 2011.
The 26-year-old also changed the status of her Facebook page - emblazoned with the black flag of ISIS - to read: 'If you don't like the current events in Sham (Syria) take to arms and not the keyboard.'
After going to Turkey, she secretly fled across the border into Syria, where she was later taken to Raqqa, the de facto ISIS capital. 
Photographs of her in a flat in the city, suggest she had gone through a marriage ceremony and been allowed to move out of the house where single women without male guardians are forced to live in Raqqa.
Explaining her reason for wanting to return home, Shakil complained that the rules in the women's house were too strict and she had her mobile phone taken off her.
Shakil told Birmingham Crown Court: 'Your phone was taken off you and there was this evil Saudi woman' who ran the house for single women, known as a maqqa.

Shakil in her police interview. She claimed she was kidnapped but later admitted  wanting to start a new life
Shakil in her police interview. She claimed she was kidnapped but later admitted  wanting to start a new life
Shakil in her police interview. She claimed she was kidnapped but later admitted wanting to start a new life
A blurred photo posted online by  Shakil shows an unidentified woman wielding a Kalashnikov rifle
A blurred photo posted online by Shakil shows an unidentified woman wielding a Kalashnikov rifle

Shakil listed the rules: 'No phones, no ipads - if you get caught there are big problems – rules if you are not Syrian and not married, how she expected you to act, taking turns cooking and cleaning and womanly duties.'
In a message discovered on her phone, she advised another single woman thinking of joining ISIS: 'I'm married ukhti [sister]. Life is hard 4 single sisters, too many sisters run. Please don't come alone, u have to be married here ukhti. Trust me, u r young, look after ur parents and tell all single sisters, I said don't come alone.'
Speaking after the verdict, Assistant Chief Constable Marcus Beale, who leads on counter-terrorism across the West Midlands, said: 'Tareena Shakil had self-radicalised by viewing extremist material on the internet, before leaving the UK in October 2014.
'Our assessment is that she was not naive; she had absolutely clear intentions when she left the UK, sending tweets encouraging the public to commit acts of terrorism here and then taking her young child to join Daesh in Syria.'
Assistant Chief Constable Beale added: 'Photographs seized from her phone showed Ms Shakil posing with a firearm and wearing a Daesh balaclava. Another showed a rucksack with a Daesh logo and person holding a handgun. These were taken while she was in Syria.
'Ms Shakil had already incited others to commit terrorist acts on social media and having spent months living under Daesh, she no doubt presented a real threat on her return to the UK from the country early last year.
'Thanks to proactive counter-terrorism policing, we were able to intercept Shakil at the airport and put the necessary measures in place to protect her child from their mother's extremist ideology.'  

Photos shown to the jury showed Shakil posing in an ISIS balaclava and with a Kalashnikov rifle
Photos shown to the jury showed Shakil posing in an ISIS balaclava and with a Kalashnikov rifle
Photos shown to the jury showed Shakil posing in an ISIS balaclava and with a Kalashnikov rifle
Shakil's Facebook page under the name Tameena al Amirah where she started posting extremist messages
Shakil's Facebook page under the name Tameena al Amirah where she started posting extremist messages

'YOU ARE HANGING OVER THE GATES OF HELL': TAREENA SHAKIL'S TROUBLED ROUTE TO RADICAL ISLAM

Tareena Shakil's father was from Pakistan and her mother was white and from Australia, but only converted to Islam four years ago.
Her family were not religious but she was sent to the mosque for religious education between the ages of eight and 12.
She attended Victoria Primary School and then De Ferrers High School in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, where she passed eight GCSEs and went on to get two Bs in media and film and a D grade in psychology at Burton College where she did her A-levels.
While at college she also worked part-time for Morrisons supermarket and then for the New Look high street fashion chain.
Shakil went on to study counselling and psychology at Wolverhampton University from 2009 to 2010 but dropped out of the course after getting married.
Her new husband had become jealous of other men on the course and 'it became difficult with the accusations. My marriage was not too good and I decided it was not worth the headache,' she said.
After leaving university, she found a job as a rehabilitation support worker in Hinkley, Leicestershire, for a year, working with patients with burn injuries, however, Shakil was soon pregnant with her son and left work to become a fulltime parent.
Shakil's father was violent and often in trouble with police, she said, while her older brother followed his father in getting into trouble and was thrown out of school.
Her mother ran away from home on one occasion but Shakil added: 'He got her back, he found out where she was and turned up. She was in hospital due to injuries. I was 11 or 12.'
She had met her husband, Samim, on a night out with her friends in June 2010. He was married but she didn't find out for five months, when she also discovered that he had two children by two different women.
However he got a divorce in January 2011 and by February she had moved into his flat in Moseley Road, Balsall Heath in Birmingham.
'From the beginning it took a rapid downward spiral fuelled by alcohol – on his part not mine- within a week of moving in together,' she said.
Shakil was asked by Tim Moloney QC, defending, if the relationship was violent and said: 'There was a lot of violence. He's done various things - very serious and it got worse.'
They got married in July but in October 2011, police were called to the house they were sharing after an anonymous caller reported a disturbance.
Officers found broken furniture and smashed plates and found Shakil hiding in a cupboard in the bedroom 'visibly shaking and upset' after Samim had allegedly pulled her hair, slapped her and punched her.
At the end of 2012, she fell pregnant and the baby was born in August 2013.
'Samim used to kick me out and throw my clothes over the balcony. It wasn't secure to live in that situation so I got a place of my own,' she said.
'Samim's violence was fuelled by alcohol, he would come home paralytic drunk. He might pick up my son and drop him. I can't control him when he's sober, let alone when he's drunk.
'I gave him the option, I said, you need to stop and he said when the baby was born he wasn't going to drink but two weeks after he was back out partying. He'd been saying the same thing for four years.'
But even with her own place, her husband would turn up at her flat in Sparkhill, Birmingham.
'I didn't have a peaceful life in Birmingham, he would come knocking on my door,' she said, explaining that she spent much of her time back at home in Burton-on-Trent.
At the end of July 2014, her husband left for Yemen to go to his sister's daughter's wedding, with members of the family flying in from America.
'He would say he was getting married again and starting a new life out there and he didn't want to live in England any more.
'Because we had got a child together, I wouldn't want him to start a life there. I have been through a lot with this man.'
She said she was also upset that he had ruined her 'chance' of a better life by forcing her to drop out of university and turning down an opportunity to go and work with her grandfather in Australia.
'I thought, you are going to leave me here, broken, just leave me, lost,' Shakil said.
With her husband in Yemen, Shakil started to join the campaign to Free Palestine and re-started her Facebook account which she hadn't used since leaving university four years earlier.
'I was always interested in going to live in another country, for no other reason than I just wanted to,' Shakil said.
She said she was contacted by a man calling himself Abu T who said he was in 'Sham' she said.
'At the time, I didn't even know where Sham was,' she said.
'He explained what hijra [emigrating] was and staying in the land of the non-believers. He said you can't live where there is not shariah [Islamic law] its haram [forbidden].
'He said, 'Look sister, while you are in England, you are hanging over the gates of Jahannam [hell]. If you die, the gates will open, that's where you're going.'
Trial of runaway mother hears she is one of about SIXTY British women who have gone to join ISIS
The jury which convicted Tareena Shakil of travelling with her child to join ISIS was told that about 60 British females were thought to have gone to Syria.
During her trial at Birmingham Crown Court, Dr Florence Gaub an expert on the subject of conflicts in the Arab world estimated the latest figure for the number of British women who have joined the brutal terror group.
Dr Gaub said evidence suggested the total number of women from Europe, North America and Australia who had gone to the self-declared caliphate was about 600.
A senior analyst for the European Union Institute for Security Studies, Dr Gaub said it was thought that about 5,000 Western 'foreign fighters' - a number including women, although they cannot bear arms for IS - were now in Syria.
That figure makes up roughly a quarter of the 40,000-strong military force which IS was estimated to have, based on data from summer 2014.
She added that half of that figure were classed as foreign fighters, those who were neither Syrian nor Iraqi, and included those who had come from countries like Tunisia and Saudi Arabia.
Dr Gaub said all of the information had come from sources including Western military and domestic intelligence services data, and analysis of other sources like media reporting.
Turning to the subject of defections from ISIS, she said somewhere between a third and a half had left to either return home or depart ISIS-occupied territory.
She said: 'Between 1,500 and 2,500 individuals from the European Union, UK and North America are said to have left ISIS territory.'

She added the number of women defectors was thought to be between 80 or 90.
Separately, the Government has estimated 800 Britons have gone into Syria in the past four years, with half still believed to be in the country.
Speaking on a visit to Turkey earlier in January, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said the security services had stopped 600 British nationals from entering the war-torn Middle Eastern state trying to join ISIS and other jihadists.
Mr Hammond said an estimated 800 UK citizens had entered Syria in the past four years, with around half thought to still be in the country. 

How Somalian men are living by their own laws... and causing devastating repercussions in Britain

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  • Three Somali men jailed for raping a 16-year-old girl in Rusholme in 2013
  • Rapists were Mowled Omar Yussaf, Muhyadeen Osman and Bilal Ahmed
  • Yussaf gave victim's parents the middle finger as he was led from dock 
  • 'I stayed quiet because I thought they would kill me,' victim told the Mail
  • Her parents have received abuse and intimidation from rapists' families
The Victoria Park Hotel is a short walk from the bustling Manchester thoroughfare known locally as the 'Curry Mile.' The establishment offers budget accommodation at cheap prices (£45 for a single bed).
Standards at the hotel reflect the bargain-basement rates. Several ground-floor windows are boarded up. Guests have complained of mould in bathrooms, marks on walls and ceilings, and dirty bed linen.
Room 38 is on the first floor. It is also where, just before midday on August 9, 2013, a young girl found herself trapped and about to be subjected to the most degrading and terrifying ordeal imaginable. She was 16, an A-grade student from a middle-class family, who had just completed her GCSEs at a leading private school.
How she came to be in Room 38 of this squalid hotel in Rusholme, on the south side of the city, is not important for now. By the time she emerged 30 minutes later, she had been gang raped at least six times by three different men.

As ringleader Mowled Omar Yussaf (pictured) was led away from the dock, after being sentenced to ten years for raping a 16-year-old girl, he stuck his middle finger up at parents of the victim
As ringleader Mowled Omar Yussaf (pictured) was led away from the dock, after being sentenced to ten years for raping a 16-year-old girl, he stuck his middle finger up at parents of the victim
The mothers of Yussaf, and his fellow rapists Bilal Ahmed (left) and Muhyadeen Osman (right), showed their support for the trio by attending court
The mothers of Yussaf, and his fellow rapists Bilal Ahmed (left) and Muhyadeen Osman (right), showed their support for the trio by attending court
The mothers of Yussaf, and his fellow rapists Bilal Ahmed (left) and Muhyadeen Osman (right), showed their support for the trio by attending court

The trio, all aged 20, were jailed for a total of 29 years at Manchester Crown Court this week. But six others were present when she was passed around like a piece of meat. They regarded her as 'easy prey,' to quote the judge. Those who did not violate her were spectators. They watched and did nothing to help.
The visceral horror of what happened in Room 38 was conveyed in a single harrowing sentence by the victim — now 19 and a university undergraduate — when the Mail spoke to her exclusively this week. 'I just stayed quiet because I thought they would kill me if I screamed,' she said.
There is something else you should know about her attackers. It is this: they were all from Manchester's Somali community. The harrowing events that unfolded in court were also part of a much wider, and seemingly escalating, Somali crimewave taking place in many cities nationwide.
This is why the ethnic background of the rapists is central to this bigger picture.
Until recently, the culture of political correctness that undermined the investigations into the Asian sex grooming scandals in Rochdale, Rotherham and elsewhere, would have discouraged the reporting of this fact.
Mowled Omar Yussaf was the ring leader. As he was led away from the dock to begin his prison term, he stuck his middle finger up at the parents of his victim, not once but twice.
It was just one hate-filled example of the gauntlet of intimidation and abuse the couple have faced from the families and friends of the convicted men during the two-week trial.

That most of the guilty men's entourage, who crowded round the court house steps to declare their support for the rapists, were women in traditional Somali dress was yet another sickening twist.
Before passing sentence, the judge told them: 'You just assumed that you each could do with her as you chose . . . there is a lack of acknowledgment that what you did to this girl was wrong. There's no remorse expressed by any of you.'
Nor, shockingly, by their own families, who held banners aloft outside the court, proclaiming, 'No Justice For Somalis.'
The mothers of Mowled Yussaf, and his fellow rapists Muhyadeen Osman and Bilal Ahmed, and Yussaf's girlfriend showed their support for the trio by attending court. It was, perhaps, one of the most shameful aspects of this story that has devastated not only the life of a young woman — but that of her family, who have bravely decided to break their silence to talk exclusively to the Mail this week.
The victim in this case, who is white and whom we shall call Sarah, lives in Cheshire with her parents — who run a family business — and her brother, who, like her now, is at university. Both attended private school.
Back in 2013, she did not wear make-up and had never even been to a nightclub. A gifted musician, she had little experience of boys. Reserved is probably the best way to describe her, and she remains so today.
But for a twist of fate, Sarah would never have entered the world of Mowled Yussaf and his fellow Somalians.
'I only had a small group of friends at the time and my best girlfriend was going on holiday for a month so I asked her if she knew anyone I could talk to while she was away,' she told the Mail this week. 'I was bored, it was the summer holidays.'

Family members of the Somali trio convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl protest outside Manchester Crown Court
Family members of the Somali trio convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl protest outside Manchester Crown Court
H er friend was happy to oblige. Soon, Sarah began exchanging free Blackberry messages with a boy who had known her best friend for two years. She trusted him. Why wouldn't she?
On August 8, Sarah was contacted by the boy on her BlackBerry. 'Did she want to meet up in Manchester the next day?' he asked.
The next day he messaged her to ask if she was on her way, and Sarah, who was going to see another girlfriend in the city for lunch, agreed to see him ('for just a few minutes') en route.
Sarah got off at 'Curry Mile' in Rusholme as arranged. The boy was there to meet her. 'We started walking down the road and three of his mates came round the corner,' she said. Mowled Yussaf was among them. He told me his name was Alex. He seemed to be the ringleader.
'They kind of boxed me in, one behind me, one in front, and one to the side. I started to get frightened. I didn't know how old they were, but I knew they were older than me.' Moments later, they arrived on the steps of the seedy Victoria Park Hotel.
Yussaf's group had stayed at the hotel the previous night for Eid celebrations, the religious festival which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.
'I felt I had no choice but to go inside,' Sarah said. She was ushered into a room by Yussaf (Alex). 'He asked me for sex but I told him, 'No', I wasn't that type of girl. 'He said he had never been turned down before and I replied, 'Well, you have now.' He was very arrogant, the way he held himself. He just expected to get whatever he asked for.'
At that point the manager arrived and ordered the group to leave because they were past their check-out time.
Instead, after the manager had gone, Yussaf and his friends began trying handles of other rooms. Eventually, they did find one which was unlocked. It was Room 38.
There is no need to elaborate on what happened next. 'They helped themselves' is how Sarah chillingly described what happened in those 30 minutes she was trapped inside.
S he said: 'I just closed my eyes I didn't want to look at them. I couldn't look at them. I didn't scream because I thought they might kill me if I did.
'Any one of them could have had a knife. Nobody else knew I was there. I kept thinking they could kill me and nobody would know.'
When they had finished with her, they stole her phone and £40 from her purse. Eventually, Sarah managed to gather herself together and walk to nearby Manchester Metropolitan University where a security guard called police.
One ordeal had ended, but another was about to begin.
A few months later, Sarah's mother was in Manchester when a Somalian man, whom she later recognised as an associate of the rapists, called out to her in the street. 'Curry Mile,' he said, smirking.
It was the start of what can only be described a campaign of intimidation that continued until Yussaf, Osman and Ahmed were sent down.
At their trial, before Christmas, Sarah's parents, who are both in their late 40s, had to sit, surrounded by the accused men's supporters. They were blocked in court corridors and stared at. Outside, photos were taken.
'I felt we were being goaded all the time, but the police told us not to react,' Sarah's mother told the Mail.
As Yussaf passed them in court, he would make threatening comments out of earshot of court officials. 'What are you f****** looking at?', he asked Sarah's father on one occasion, and 'Have you got a problem, mate?' on another.
On the day of the demonstration, Sarah's parents were advised to come into court through a rear entrance.
Bilal Ahmed sarcastically blew a kiss at the couple shortly before sentence was delivered (he got nine years while Yussaf and Osman each got ten).
As they were led away, someone in the public gallery shouted: 'Hope your daughter enjoys the money.' It was an apparent reference to criminal compensation victims of crime are entitled to.
'Can they not understand what my daughter and ourselves have gone through?' Sarah's mother asked, her eyes welling up.
'By supporting them in this way, they are condoning what happened. No wonder so many people are too scared to go to court in rape cases if this is what you have to go through.'
Sarah is now receiving counselling.
'I've not told anyone at university what happened to me, she said. 'I was hoping to make a fresh start but I feel like I can't leave it behind. I keep trying to put it to the back of my mind, but it's always there. If I go home, I hardly ever go out. I don't like to think some of them are still out there. I'm frightened. I've even dyed my hair so no-one will recognise me.'
The ongoing terror for Sarah and her family cannot be understated. Yet it is Bilal Ahmed who sees himself and his friends as the real victims.
In the pre-sentence report on Ahmed, a student who lived with his mother and three brothers in a housing association property, he described his victim as a . . . 'slut . . .up for anything . . sexually promiscuous and available to be dominated' [all lies, for the record].
It wasn't clear, said his barrister, if the reason for his views was 'immaturity or cultural.'
We can only assume — from their unquestioning support outside the court house this week — that their mothers were happy to accept that narrative, too.
Their very public support for their sons — which the victim's parents, rightly, viewed as intimidating — is particularly difficult to comprehend because they were born in Somalia, where sexual violence is pervasive.
The title of a report by the Human Rights Watch organisation in 2014 sums up the reality of life for many women in the failed African state: 'Here, Rape Is Normal.'
In Britain, gang rape is not recorded as a separate crime category. But in 2009, a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary, Rape In The City, investigated 29 cases in London, from January 2006 to March 2009, in which a total of 92 young people were convicted of involvement in gang rape.
Of those convicted, 66 were black or mixed race, 13 were white and the remainder were from other countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.
Yet police insist it is not a race issue — but that most gang rapes take place in the most deprived boroughs, which have disproportionately high ethnic populations.
However, documentary-maker, Sorious Samura, himself black, was deeply alarmed by the figures. 'Clearly this is not a crime exclusive to black communities,' he said, 'but I found it impossible to ignore the fact that such a high proportion were committed by black and mixed-race young men.'
No statistics were given for the racial profile of victims in the programme. But figures obtained from Scotland Yard by this newspaper in 2008 for gang rapes in that year, and 2006-7, revealed that the majority — 60 per cent — were white and 28 per cent were black.
The overwhelming majority of Somalians living in this country will be as appalled as everyone else by what happened to Sarah in a back-street hotel in Manchester. But with an ever-growing Somali population — the most recent census in 2011 identified 101,370 people in England and Wales who were born in the East African country, making them Britain's largest refugee population at the time — an increase in crime rates in this demographic is, perhaps, inevitable.
That figure does not include second-generation Somalis, like the predators recently sent down for the gang rape, or Somalis who may live here illegally.
The migration began in the Nineties, when the territory was plunged into civil war. Where other immigrants have flourished, Somalis have traditionally been among the poorest, worst-educated and least-employed in Britain.
In this latest case, all the gang rape thugs were known to police.
Mowled Omar Yussaf had 12 previous convictions for 17 offences, mainly for violence, including an assault on a police officer for which he served time in a young offenders' institution.
M uhyadeen Osman was only 17 when he was a member of a gang that savagely mugged a man in an alleyway, leaving the victim needing 16 stitches to his head. Bilal Ahmed, meanwhile, had a caution for theft.
Somali gangs are now major players in the heroin and crack cocaine trade in London, Birmingham, Sheffield and on the South Coast, often replacing the established underworld order by being prepared to resort to the most extreme levels of violence.
In November, a Somalian gangster was locked up for 36 years for the 'cold-blooded' execution of a rival who was shot twice in the chest through the window of his 4x4 when his vehicle pulled up at traffic lights in Sheffield.
Earlier, in June, 15 members of a Somalian 'crew' from London were given 70 years for a conspiracy to supply controlled drugs in Devon.
The heart of the Somali community in Manchester itself is Moss Side and Greenheys, not far from the Victoria Park Hotel in Rusholme.
Two gun-toting Somali gangs, 'Dem Crazy Somalis' and 'Somalian Mandem' operate in south Manchester. Violent, degrading group sex, if not gang rape, is often a rite of passage for members or 'soldiers' as they style themselves.
The opposite sex is almost always treated as sexual prey.
Yussaf and his associates displayed the same mentality inside 'Room 38' of the Victoria Park Hotel.
And, as this case demonstrates, there is still a significant minority living by the 'laws' of Somalia, not Britain. The repercussions, for Sarah and who knows how many others, are devastating.

Moroccan woman with criminal record who can't be deported from UK because she is a mother is identified as Abu Hamza's daughter-in-law

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  • Woman, known as CS, jailed for a year for smuggling a sim card into prison
  • She was identified as the daughter-in-law of radical cleric Abu Hamza today
  • After her release she divorced British husband and got custody of their son
  • Government's plans to deport her derailed because she is child's sole carer
The Moroccan woman who cannot be deported because of a European court order has been identified as the daughter-in-law of radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza.

The woman, known only as CS in court papers, was due to be thrown out of the UK after serving a 12 month sentence for smuggling a sim card into a jail in 2012.

But Europe's highest court ruled the UK cannot deport foreign criminals if they are the sole carer of their British child - and Britain must also prove they are a threat to national security. 

The Moroccan woman who cannot be deported because of a European court order has been identified as the daughter-in-law of radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza (pictured)
The Moroccan woman who cannot be deported because of a European court order has been identified as the daughter-in-law of radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza (pictured)

Tory MP Philip Davies today identified the woman as Hamza's daughter, before later clarifying that he understood her to be his daughter-in-law. There is an order banning media from naming her.
In January, Hamza was jailed for life by a New York judge who told him he was 'barbaric' and showed no remorse or sympathy towards his victims.
He was found guilty of helping in a hostage taking in Yemen in 1988 that left three Britons and an Australian dead.
His other convictions related to inciting violent jihad in Afghanistan and trying to set up a terrorist training camp in Bly, Oregon.
It also emerged last month that one of the Paris attackers was a devotee of one of Hamza's former disciples at the Finsbury Park Mosque in North London. 
The judge said a life sentence was the only option as she could never conceive of a time when he would not be a danger to the public - even 20 years from now.
Raising a point of order in the House of Commons, he said: 'My understanding is that the person concerned is the daughter of Abu Hamza, which is a very, very serious matter for the security of this country.
'And surely this is something that should be raised in this House, that the Home Office minister should be making a statement about today. 

Tory MP Philip Davies today identified the woman as Hamza's (pictured) daughter, before later clarifying that he understood her to be his daughter-in-law
Tory MP Philip Davies today identified the woman as Hamza's (pictured) daughter, before later clarifying that he understood her to be his daughter-in-law

'Have you had any indication that the Home Office intend to make any kind of statement about this issue?' 
CS divorced her British husband and secured custody of their four-year-old son but claimed she could not be deported because there will be no-one else to care for the boy.
Home Secretary Theresa May wanted to deport her but the European Court of Justice's (ECJ) top legal adviser said non-EU offenders whose children have UK nationality could not be booted out 'simply' because they have committed a crime.
In a crumb of comfort for the Home Secretary, ECJ Advocate General Maciej Szpunar said expulsion should be allowed in 'exceptional circumstances'.
He said a foreign offender who was sole carer of a British child aged under 16 could be flown home if they presented a 'genuine, present and sufficiently serious' threat to society, including public security.
If the ECJ backs his preliminary opinion – and the judges rarely disagree – it potentially opens the door to hundreds of low-level foreign criminals to claiming the right to stay in Britain.
Under current immigration laws, Britain automatically serves a deportation order against all non-EU offenders who are sentenced to more than one year in prison, irrespective of their family circumstances.

In May 2012, CS was jailed after attempting to smuggle contraband – a mobile phone SIM card – into a high-security prison and sentenced to 12 months in jail.
After completing her sentence, she was handed a deportation notice. A subsequent request for asylum was rejected as there was no likelihood of persecution if she were to return to her native Morocco.
But immigration judges ruled that deportation amounted to 'constructive expulsion' of her son from the EU.
Theresa May was told that the UK cannot deport foreign criminals with British-born children after a key test case involving a jailed Moroccan mother of one
Theresa May was told that the UK cannot deport foreign criminals with British-born children after a key test case involving a jailed Moroccan mother of one
Because there were no other family members he could live with in the UK, sending him to Morocco would breach his human rights.
Mrs May appealed against that decision but the case was sent by the British courts for a ruling from the Luxembourg court.
Britain had argued that CS's 'serious criminal offence represented an obvious threat to the preservation of… social cohesion and of the values of its society'.
In his legal advice, which gives a strong guide to the court's eventual verdict, Advocate General Szpunar declared that 'in principle' it would violate EU laws to deport a non-EU criminal who had sole care of a British child.
But he said expelling parents such as CS was permissible in 'exceptional circumstances', after the government has examined the 'personal conduct' of the criminal and assessed whether they present a serious risk to 'public security'.
Last night Eurosceptic Tory MP Philip Hollobone said: 'This is yet another crazy judicial ruling and underlines the need for us to finally leave the EU and to abolish the Human Rights Act.
'By being a member of the EU and the human rights act we are effectively unable to decide which people we want in the country and which people we do not.'
The case intensifies pressure on David Cameron, whose renegotiation has not touched on the powers of the ECJ over British law.
He has promised to bring forward legislative proposals soon that will 'put beyond doubt the sovereignty of the Commons over European law.
Mrs May, a frequent critic of EU free movement rules, has hinted in recent days that she will campaign to remain in the European Union.

Church of England minister found out from online video that her Muslim convert son had died fighting for ISIS in Syria

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  • Jake Petty, who converted to Islam aged 15, joined ISIS in Syria in 2014 
  • Former Church of England schoolboy said to have died in October 2015
  • He last emailed his parents just days earlier defending murderous group
  • Parents did not find out until police showed them video of his dead body
  • Mrs Boyce was giving evidence against her son's friend who is accused of helping two others leave the country to join ISIS
Church of England minister Sue Boyce (pictured) has told of how she learned of her jihadi son's death through an ISIS propaganda video
Church of England minister Sue Boyce (pictured) has told of how she learned of her jihadi son's death through an ISIS propaganda video
A Church of England minister has told of how she learned of her jihadi son's death through a video posted online.

Reverend Sue Boyce said she was 'horrified' to discover her son Jake Petty, who went by the alias Abu Yaqoob Britani, had fled the UK to join ISIS in Syria in July 2014.

He continued to stay in touch with his distraught family over WhatsApp but 'went quiet' in mid August.

Petty, a former Church of England Schoolboy who converted to Islam when he was 15, sent a final email to his family on October 26, 2014 - days before he died.

In the message entitled 'New Life', he defended the murderous group by saying 'we are not a load of backward, bloodthirsty terrorists' and claimed 'nobody has been brainwashed or tricked'.

His parents found out about his death when police showed them internet footage of his dead body on October 30, the Old Bailey heard. 

Fighting tears Susan Boyce gave told the court: 'It was the sort of email that, when it arrived, you read it and wished you weren't reading it and there'd be another one saying it was a nasty joke.'

Petty was 25 years old when he was killed while fighting for ISIS.

His bereaved mother told the Old Bailey that Petty attended the Blue Coat secondary school, in Walsall and left after finishing his GCSEs, aged 16. 

Rev Boyce said her son had moved to Egypt to study after finishing a degree at London University's prestigious School of Oriental and Asian Studies (SOAS).

She said: 'I had no indication that he was thinking of going to Syria. We had got together and watched news of the uprising. 

Jake Petty (pictured), a former Church of England Schoolboy who converted to Islam when he was 15, fled the UK to join ISIS in Syria in July 2014
Jake Petty (pictured), a former Church of England Schoolboy who converted to Islam when he was 15, fled the UK to join ISIS in Syria in July 2014

'Unless he was bluffing, he was quite shocked by some of the things that were going on, and over the beheadings, and that Sunnis [Muslims] were involved.

'We had a family WhatsApp group and he would send funny things, like him crossing the road to show how busy it was. Everyone from the family did a copy of that wherever they lived.' 

He eventually phoned to say he was 'on the borders of Syria as an aid worker' and claimed he had lost his phone, but eventually phoned them on the same number.

Rev Boyce said: 'I was horrified, I said don't be stupid, don't do it, but he said it was as an aid worker.'

Petty then went quiet until he emailed his family on October 26 to tell them he was training to be a soldier. 

He added: 'I'm sorry for not being upfront about my intention to come here, but I feared you may have tried to stop me, which I could not risk.

 Since becoming a Muslim I have never been happy living in the UK. 

The last time Miss Boyce (pictured) heard from her son was when he emailed the family on October 26, 2014, days before his death, and defended the murderous group he has joined
The last time Miss Boyce (pictured) heard from her son was when he emailed the family on October 26, 2014, days before his death, and defended the murderous group he has joined

'We are not a load of backward, bloodthirsty terrorists, but just people who want to live somewhere where society revolves around religion and not the other way round.

'Nobody has been brainwashed or tricked, I am training to be a soldier because the whole world are united against us.'

'By now you would have realised what all this means; unfortunately I won't ever be coming back to the UK…I know none of this is easy for you and you [may] never forgive me but it's not my intention for you to worry [or] be sad.

'Yes the chances of me getting hurt here are high but I want you to know that in spending my days with the most kind, generous and loving people I've ever met and I have a peace and contentment in my heart that I could never dream of anywhere else. '

He told his sister that he would miss her wedding, adding: 'It makes me sad just to write this that I won't be at your wedding and for this I hope you will forgive me. 

'I know how much the day means to you and I hope it will still be amazing and everything that you dreamed of.' 
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Police visited the family home on 30 October last year and prosecutor Julian Christopher QC said: 'When they did come round and showed the footage you could see that it was him.'

Rev Boyce was giving evidence in the prosecution of Lorna Moore, 33, who is accused of failing to inform police her husband Sajid Aslam was poised to leave for Syria 

Jurors have heard Petty was one of a group of young Muslims from Walsall who went to fight for ISIS between July and December 2014 - or at least tried to.

His schoolmate Isaiah Siadatan left behind his wife Kerry Thomason, 24, and their two children to join his friend in the war torn country.

Police stopped Thomason before she could board a flight to Turkey and Siadatan later sent her an email threatening to kill her and her family if she did not bring his children to Syria.

It is not known whether he is still alive, but Thomason has pleaded guilty to assisting him in preparation for his acts of terrorism. 

Former Walsall supply teacher Aslam, 34, was allegedly a fundamentalist Muslim interested in influencing young people. 

Jurors have heard Petty was one of a group of young Muslims from Walsall - including Sajid Aslam (left) who left behind his wife Lorna Moore (right) - who went to fight for ISIS between July and December 2014
Jurors have heard Petty was one of a group of young Muslims from Walsall - including Sajid Aslam (left) who left behind his wife Lorna Moore (right) - who went to fight for ISIS between July and December 2014
Jurors have heard Petty was one of a group of young Muslims from Walsall - including Sajid Aslam (left) who left behind his wife Lorna Moore (right) - who went to fight for ISIS between July and December 2014

The Muslim convert left the country in August 2014, leaving his 33-year-old wife, Lorna Moore, and three children in Walsall.

He is said to be fighting for ISIS, while Moore, who is alleged to have made plans for her and their children to join him, is standing trial alongside Ayman Shaukat.

Shaukat is accused of helping Aslam and another man get to Syria to join ISIS, while Aslam's wife Lorna Moore, 33, is said to have failed to alert police to her husband's plans.

Alex Nash, 22, also went to a Church of England School, in Walsall, before converting to Islam, aged 18, and marrying a Muslim girl, Yousma Jan, 20 in an Islamic ceremony witnessed by Aslam and Shaukat.

Shaukat is alleged to have driven them to Birmingham airport on 4 November 2014 so they could fly to Turkey and even removed furniture and kitchen appliances from their rented house.

Jurors heard the sofa and fridge ended up at the Walsall Islamic Centre, also known as 'Islam Walsall', where Shaukat was the treasurer.

The pair were deported back to the UK by the Turkish authorities and arrested off the plane at Heathrow airport. Nash has since pleaded guilty to preparation of terrorist acts.

Shaukat, who worked at Equity Finance Ltd, in Wolverhampton, is said to have sympathised with ISIS and a picture of him posing in front of an ISIS-style flag in his bedroom was recovered from his mobile phone.

Meanwhile law graduate Ayman Shaukat (pictured) is accused of helping Aslam and another man get to Syria to join ISIS
Meanwhile law graduate Ayman Shaukat (pictured) is accused of helping Aslam and another man get to Syria to join ISIS
Shaukat is said to have sympathised with ISIS and a picture of him posing in front of an ISIS-style flag (file photo) in his bedroom was recovered from his mobile phone
Shaukat is said to have sympathised with ISIS and a picture of him posing in front of an ISIS-style flag (file photo) in his bedroom was recovered from his mobile phone

Jurors heard the Coventry University graduate also had a copy of terrorist manual 39 Ways to Serve Participate in Jihad and an e-book called 44 Ways to Support Jihad on CDs stashed on a second bookcase in his room.

Shaukat, of Pargeter Street, Walsall, denies two counts of preparation of terrorist acts and one charge of possession of information contrary to the Terrorism Act.

Moore, of Glebe Street, Walsall, denies concealing information about acts of terrorism.

Thomason has pleaded guilty to assisting her husband in preparation of acts of terrorism, while Nash, of Bentley Lane, Walsall has admitted preparation of terrorist acts.

The trial continues.


Rabble-rouser who spent honeymoon in Calais Jungle was jailed for looting migrant shop in riots - then BOASTED about it online

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  • Syed Bokhari was handed a nine-month term for raiding electronics shop
  • It was owned by an elderly man who migrated to UK from India in the 60s
  • He was exposed far-Left activist who marched alongside anarchist groups 
  • French police have said those groups encourage migrants to riot in Calais
Syed Bokhari (left, with his wife), 28, was handed a nine-month sentence for raiding an electronics shop in Ealing , West London, at the height of the 2011 riots
Syed Bokhari (left, with his wife), 28, was handed a nine-month sentence for raiding an electronics shop in Ealing , West London, at the height of the 2011 riots
The rabble-rouser who spent his honeymoon at a squalid migrant camp in Calais was jailed for being part of a gang of looters in the 2011 riots, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Syed Bokhari was handed a nine-month term for raiding an electronics shop at the height of the unrest, which caused hundreds of millions of pounds in damage across Britain.

The 28-year-old former asylum-seeker, who was born in Pakistan, targeted a shop owned by an elderly man who migrated to the UK from India in the 1960s. 

Today Bokhari supplies food and clothes to the thousands of migrants who wait in the French port to slip illegally into UK-bound lorries and trains.

But on his Facebook page, he boasts about his prison term, writing: 'I'm happy to prove to you fools that I ain't no humanitarian.'

He was last week exposed as a far-Left activist who has marched alongside anarchist groups whom French police say encourage migrants to riot in Calais.

Now the Mail has established that the university graduate was part of a group which stormed Seba Electronics in Ealing, West London.

Looters broke through the security shutters before stealing TVs and other luxury electronics worth £200,000.

Last night the store owner, 84-year-old Bridj Seghal, called Bokhari a hypocrite and said he should be 'exposed so the migrants know what he is really like'.

He said: 'The raid on my shop was highly organised and the whole place was destroyed. I was on the other side of the road as they cleared out the shop. There was nothing I could do to stop them. He talks about wanting to help migrants on the one hand but on the other hand is trying to steal from one.'

Bokhari pleaded guilty to entering the shop as a trespasser with intent to steal at Thames magistrates' court in August 2013. He was then jailed for nine months by a judge a Wood Green Crown Court.

Bokhari was last week exposed as a far-Left activist who has marched alongside anarchist groups whom French police say encourage migrants to riot in Calais (pictured, migrants storm towards the port of Calais)
Bokhari was last week exposed as a far-Left activist who has marched alongside anarchist groups whom French police say encourage migrants to riot in Calais (pictured, migrants storm towards the port of Calais)

Since his release, he has repeatedly called on his followers to attend far-Left demonstrations where he has stirred up the crowd with incendiary rants alongside his German wife Mona Dohle.

On his Facebook page, he wrote: 'Two years ago the state made the mistake of letting me out of their dungeons. Couple of years down the line my life is back on track but they won't leave me to live it out in peace.

'[I'm] still revolutionary – there might not be a Bolshevik party but I'm still a Bolshevik. 
Two years ago the state made the mistake of letting me out of their dungeons. Couple of years down the line my life is back on track but they won't leave me to live it out in peace 
Syed Bokhari on his Facebook page
Anyone who wants to [say] 'Syed [is] just a charity worker now'– I'm happy to prove to you fools that I ain't no humanitarian.'

He concludes his rant by saying: 'A big f*** you to the Met police, Special Branch, MI5, GCHQ, the whole of France, David Cameron and the Conservatives.'

Bokhari and his bride were lionised in the Communist newspaper Morning Star for spending their honeymoon visiting migrants at the squalid Jungle camp at Calais.

 The pair run an organisation called London2Calais, which supplies food and clothes for migrants from the Middle East and Africa who are trying to reach the UK from the French port.

Last November he was detained under the Terrorism Act 2000 for three hours for questioning by British police working in Calais. 

'We are routinely delayed, questioned and treated like criminals because of the solidarity we bring to refugees stuck in The Jungle in Calais,' he said at the time.

His wife, a multi-lingual journalist who works for a British financial and investment publishing company, has complained on social media that she is being watched by Special Branch and was recently questioned by British border police in Calais when her German passport was temporarily taken from her for examination.

Today Bokhari supplies food and clothes to the thousands of migrants who wait in the French port to slip illegally into UK-bound lorries and trains (pictured, migrants at a camp in Calais)
Today Bokhari supplies food and clothes to the thousands of migrants who wait in the French port to slip illegally into UK-bound lorries and trains (pictured, migrants at a camp in Calais)

Earlier this month, during a protest against government immigration policy outside the Eurostar terminal at London St Pancras, Miss Dohle told a crowd of banner-waving London2Calais supporters: 'David Cameron and Theresa May, they're killing people, and that's something we can't accept.'

Bokhari's communist leanings were evident during his years as a politics student at Sussex University when he described himself as a 'revolutionary agitator'. In his third year he was suspended over allegations that he held senior staff hostage during a protest.

He was also heavily involved in the Muslim Defence League, which is dedicated to fighting Islamophobia, racism and fascism, until he was banned from the organisation.
Bokhari did not respond to requests for a comment yesterday.

BBC Tells Journalists to Call Muhammad 'The Prophet'…

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Under the section labelled “Muhammad”, the guide says: “For the founder of Islam, our style is the Prophet Muhammad; at second reference Muhammad or the Prophet.”
This advice is repeated in the sections on “Arabic names” and “Islam”.
The assertion that Mohammed is “the Prophet”, with a capital P, will likely cause controversy. While followers of Islam believe him to be the last prophet sent by God – Christians, Jews, atheists and followers of other religions do not regard him as a prophet at all.
There are also questions over whether Mohammed and Islam are being given special treatment in the style guide, which does not tell journalists how to refer to significant figures from other religions.
It does not, for example, tell staff to refer to Jesus as “Son of God”, “Our Lord” or “The Messiah”, nor does it say to call the Buddha by any of his Ten Titles, or offer any advice on how to refer to holy figures from Hinduism or Sikhism.
The guide also teaches journalists how to refer to non-believers of Islam, stating: “The Islamic concept of unbelief, of being outside Islam, is kufr. An unbeliever is a kafir – the plural is kuffar. However, in a direct quote ‘kafirs’ is acceptable.”
This is not the first controversy the BBC has found itself in over the subject of Islam. In November, it used the words “hateful”, “Islamophobic” and “bad timing” to describe a hashtag used by atheist ex-Muslims to explain why they left the faith.
Former Muslims tweeted under #ExMuslimBecause, expressing views such as “I know being a woman doesn’t make me lesser” and “I couldn’t handle hearing my own family say that Shi’as, my neighbours and best friends, are kuffar”.
However, a BBC programme on the hashtag featured two male Muslim “community experts” calling it “problematic ” and “hateful”.

Majority of prison imams are 'teaching anti-western' values that promote gender segregation, study claims

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  • Around 70% of Muslim prison chaplains teach a hardline view of Islam 
  • Radical brand of Islam contrasts to British values and human rights
  • Study found that 140 of the 200 Muslim chaplains working in prisons have studied Deobandi Islam which promotes gender segregation and no music 
Around 70% of Muslim prison chaplains teach a hardline fundamentalist interpretation of Islam which challenges British values and encourages radical thinking.

The findings are expected to be revealed in a new study by former Home Office official Ian Acheson, which is scheduled to be published next month.

Muslim prisoners represent just 10.8% of the total prison population in the UK, with 12,622 people in jail identifying as a Muslim, according to the Ministry of Justice.

Muslim prisoners represent just 10.8% of the total prison population in the UK, with 12,622 people in jail identifying as a Muslim, according to the Ministry of Justice
Muslim prisoners represent just 10.8% of the total prison population in the UK, with 12,622 people in jail identifying as a Muslim, according to the Ministry of Justice

The Acheson study was commissioned by justice secretary Michael Gove. It examined 200 Muslim chaplains and found that 140 of the imams working in prisons, had previously studied Deobandi Islam, according to the Sunday Times

Deobandi Islam first came to prominence in India in reaction to the measures imposed by its colonial British rulers. It takes its name from a madrassa in the Indian town of Deoband, located around 100 mile from the city of Delhi.

Its core elements claim to focus on purifying Islam through the banning of music and promotes gender segregation in an attempt to follow closely a literal interpretation of the Koran.

Ahtsham Ali, the Muslim adviser to the National Offender Management Service (NOMS), which works as an executive agency for the Ministry of Justice, was questioned for the Acheson study

Mr Ali was the pioneer of the deradicalisation programme known as Ibaana, which was dropped by Michael Gove when he took over from Chris Grayling as Secretary of State for Justice.

NOMS' Muslim adviser's friends said they did not believe he held radical views and dismissed claims he followed any particular viewpoint.

'Ali doesn't particularly follow any denomination; he studied Islam at length but he doesn't follow any particular viewpoint or denominational background,' the friend told The Sunday Times.  

Ahtsham Ali, the Muslim adviser to the National Offender Management Service, which works as an executive agency for the Ministry of Justice, was questioned for the Acheson study
Ahtsham Ali, the Muslim adviser to the National Offender Management Service, which works as an executive agency for the Ministry of Justice, was questioned for the Acheson study
Mr Ali was the pioneer of the deradicalisation programme known as Ibaana, which was dropped by Michael Gove (pictured) when he took over from Chris Grayling as Secretary of State for Justice
Mr Ali was the pioneer of the deradicalisation programme known as Ibaana, which was dropped by Michael Gove (pictured) when he took over from Chris Grayling as Secretary of State for Justice

The former chief inspector of prisons Nick Hardwick had previously warned last year that there is a 'small number' of radical Muslims trying to convert prisoners.

'There are undoubtedly a small number of very dangerous men motivated by a religion or ideology who are trying to recruit other people so they will go on to commit offences linked to that ideology or religion,' he said. 

The news comes after it was revealed by the Guardian last year that some Islamist extremists have deliberately gained jobs in prisons or be given a custodial sentence in an attempt to radicalise vulnerable prisoners.

Glyn Travis, the assistant general secretary of the  Prison Officers Association (POA) at the time urged the government to take a new, multi-disciplinary approach to preventing radicalisation in prisons.

'We have concerns that Islamist extremists are deliberately getting custodial sentences in order to target vulnerable prisoners,' he told the Guardian.

Travis also said that criticism towards the work of Muslim prison chaplains was unfair.

'All the imams I know are very good and decent people. I hope the Ministry of Justice utilises their skills in tackling radicalisation.'

MailOnline tried to contact Mr Acheson and Mr Ali for a comment. 

Corbyn urged to act against 'systematic misogyny' of Muslim men in Labour party

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Fozia Parveen said she was blocked from being elected as councilor in Birmingham in 2008
A women's organisation from Birmingham have accused Labour of 'turning a blind eye' to Muslim men who they say are preventing Muslim women from standing in local council elections.
The Muslim Women's Network UK have called for a public inquiry into 'smear campaigns' against women such as Fozia Parveen, who claims she was blocked from becoming a councillor in Birmingham in 2008.
Ms Parveen said: "At the time, I was aware of a smear campaign against me - they said that I was having an affair with one of the existing councillors, I was quite taken aback."
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Shaista Gohir, chair of the Muslim Women's Network UK
Shaista Gohir, chair of MWNUK, claimed the 'systematic misogyny' infected the whole of the Labour party, including high-ranking officials who were aware of the situation and guilty through inaction.
She said: "As this is an open secret and has been going on for decades, we can only assume that the Labour party has been complicit at the highest levels.
"How do men who do not want Muslim women to be empowered or have a voice remain in power unless the Labour party allows it?
"It appears that over decades senior Labour politicians have deliberately turned a blind eye to the treatment of Muslim women because votes have been more important to them than women’s rights.
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Birmingham City Council, where Fozia Parveen said she was blocked from becoming councilor in 2008
"Able, knowledgeable and independent-minded Muslim women have been undermined, sabotaged and blocked from becoming councillors.”
She added that many candidate selections were agreed behind closed doors or organised in closed block voting systems, called 'biradari'.
She said: "These men have a cultural mindset, which they've brought from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh.
"They operate a biradari male kinship system and they've brought the system here. What I call an old boys' network.
"They don't like women to be heard, to be empowered, because we will then challenge the status quo, challenge misogyny."
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Council candidate Fozia Parveen said her campaign was attacked by a 'smear campaign'
Labour rejected the allegations, with a spokesman pointing towards the party's 'positive action procedures' such as all-women shortlists and a gender-conscious selection process.
He added: "We have the best record of any party in selecting women and black ethnic and minority ethnic candidates, and we will continue to do all that we can to make sure candidates are representative of the communities they seek to represent.
"The Labour party has a fair, democratic and robust procedure for selecting council candidates. Local Labour party members select their local candidates within the party’s rules and guidelines. Those wishing to become Labour councillors are interviewed by an independent assessment team and unsuccessful candidates have a right of appeal to the regional party board."

Thousands of failed asylum seekers and foreign criminals flown home on jets YOU pay for

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Twenty planes were hired by the Government to deport more than 2,100 failed asylum seekers and foreign offenders between last February and July.
However, more than half were withdrawn from the flights destined for locations including Pakistan, Nigeria, Albania and Afghanistan.
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Planes are hired to deport failed asylum seekers and foreign offenders
And in July, 70 people were removed from a flight destined for Nigeria and Ghana – leaving just 54 people on the plane.
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One plane was used to return just a solitary Moroccan
According to figures released under the Freedom of Information Act, only one plane left with its full complement of deportees, which included 247 foreign criminals, during the five-month period.
Figures for the most recent year available show the Home Office spent nearly £14million on flights, carrying an average of 53 passengers.
A half-empty flight is a waste of money
Keith Vaz, Home Affairs Select Committee chairman
The figures were described as “astonishing” by chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee Keith Vaz.
He said: “A half-empty flight is a waste of money and shows a woeful lack of competence and organisation. Ministers really need to get a grip.”
Ministers insist the secret deportation flights, which do not show up on departure boards, are cost effective.
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