Times Online: Hardline takeover of British mosques

Published Saturday, September 8, 2007 at 9:25 am

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Almost half of Britain’s mosques are under the control of a hardline Islamic sect whose leading preacher loathes Western values and has called on Muslims to “shed blood” for Allah, an investigation by The Times has found.

Riyadh ul Haq, who supports armed jihad and preaches contempt for Jews, Christians and Hindus, is in line to become the spiritual leader of the Deobandi sect in Britain. The ultra-conservative movement, which gave birth to the Taleban in Afghanistan, now runs more than 600 of Britain’s 1,350 mosques, according to a police report seen by The Times.

As far as London is concerned, it’s very hard to make the argument that the Islamist threat consists of only a few bad apples. Presumably, these 600+ radical mosques are not empty.

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