16 February 2019

Islamist group targets children ‘at risk’ from gay rights lessons

An extremist Muslim group that regards homosexuality as a perversion like bestiality and paedophilia is teaching children its beliefs in a national campaign against LGBT rights.

Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is banned in more than a dozen countries, has been lecturing up to 70 children at a time. The group’s purpose is to re-establish the caliphate in the Middle East with sharia law.

Yesterday it distributed leaflets to mosques around the country stating that teaching children to have an open mind is as dangerous as “giving a child a gun”. [The Times (£)] Read more