Islamic charity under spotlight after being accused of promoting extremism

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The Telegraph:

The Charity Commission is now investigating after an undercover reporter found staff praising terrorists

Martin Evans, Crime Correspondent

18 Feb 2015

 

The chief executive of an Islamic charity has stepped down and an investigation launched after the organisation was accused of supporting extremism. Global Aid Trust, which claims to raise money to educate the underprivileged and alleviate poverty around the world, was launched in 2004 and has an annual income of more than half a million pounds a year.

 

 

But the Charity Commission is now investigating after an undercover reporter found its staff praising terrorists and even offering advice on how to become a jihadist in in Syria. There is also an ongoing fraud investigation by the National Terrorism Financial Investigation Unit.

 

Footage obtained by ITV’s Exposure documentary also found a speaker invited to address a Global Aid Trust even making anti-Semitic remarks and offering jihadists his blessing. The charity’s chief executive officer, Rizwan Hussein, has now stepped down.

It is one of a number charities exposed by ITV1’s Exposure programme for allegedly spreading extremism, including the Steadfast Trust.

 

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