It will include speeches from Islamic extremists including Shakeel Begg, who was recorded in 2006 urging British students to “wage jihad in Palestine”.
Source/Credit: Daily Star | UK
By Dominik Lemanski | February 13, 2013
BRITAIN’s biggest mosque is under investigation after it scheduled a fundraising event for a convicted would-be killer.
A rally is being staged in support of Aafia Siddiqui, inset, who is serving 86 years for the attempted murders of US soldiers and FBI agents in Afghanistan five years ago.
Siddiqui, a US-trained doctor, was one of America’s most wanted terror suspects.
The event, put on by the Justice for Aafia Coalition, will be at the East London Mosque in Whitechapel on February 23
It will include speeches from Islamic extremists including Shakeel Begg, who was recorded in 2006 urging British students to “wage jihad in Palestine”.
Last night, the Charity Commission said it had started a probe into the mosque which is a registered charity.
A spokeswoman said: “We are assessing concerns raised regarding the hosting of a fundraising event.
“We will look to see what, if any, regulatory concerns there are for the Charity Commission.”
The mosque got £660,000 of taxpayers’ money in 2010 and a further £256,000 the following year – some of it from a Home Office fund for “preventing violent extremism”.
It has a history of hosting fundamentalists and held a “live telephone Q&A” with former al-Qaida preacher Anwar al-Awlaki in 2009. He was killed in a drone strike two years later.
Mum-of-three Siddiqui studied in the US in the 90s.
She returned to Pakistan in 2003 after marrying an al-Qaida operative related to 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
The FBI named her as a terrorist suspect in 2004.
In 2008 she was arrested in Afghanistan on suspicion of being a suicide bomber after being found with bomb-making notes and details of New York landmarks.
The next day she was shot and wounded when she tried to escape. She is being held in Fort Worth, Texas.
The East London Mosque did not return our calls for a comment.
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