05 April 2011

Lutfur Rahman council pays at least £50,000 a month to front organisations for extremist IFE

It is payback time – at taxpayers’ expense – for the Islamic Forum of Europe, the fundamentalist Muslim group which, in its own words, is working to turn Europe into a sharia state and whose senior official, Azad Ali, has stated that “democracy, if it means at the expense of not implementing the sharia, of course no-one agrees with that.”

For the last thirteen months, the Telegraph and Channel 4’s Dispatches have documented the close links between the IFE and the man who is now the directly-elected mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman. [telegraph.co.uk] Read more