The nominations are in for the Charity Times Awards 2009 and a familiar name has made the shortlist – twice!
Charity Principal of the Year:
Catriona McPhee-Smith, CEO, Inspire
Ed Bracher, CEO, Riding for the Disabled Association
Emma Jayne Cross, CEO, Beatbullying
Dilowar Hussain Khan, executive director, East London Mosque and London Muslim Centre
Jane Davis, Director, The Reader Organisation
Jeanette Allen, CEO, MedicAlert Foundation
Howard Sinclair, CEO, Broadway Homelessness & Support
Steve Kirk, CEO, St Lukes Hospice
And also:
Trustee Board of the Year:
Broadway Homelessness & Support
East London Mosque and London Muslim Centre
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Tyneside Rape Crisis Centre
You can admire the list of trustees of this fine Jamaat-e-Islami linked establishment here.
Now, the East London Mosque, with Dilowar Husasin Khan at its helm, may well have done some good work in 2009, but it’s also managed to trip up on more than the odd occasion. Whilst the recent Fitzpatrick affair was an overblown egotrip for a minister nobody had ever heard of, there are genuine concerns about the influence Jamaat-e-Islami influenced Islamists Islamic Forum Europe are gaining through East London Mosque. The mosque also found itself in the papers recently after playing host to the Antisemitic Imam of Mecca, Abdur Rahman al-Sudais.
Before that there was the iEra “Dawah” (propagation of the faith) tour, which saw Malaysian bigot Hussein Ye, Bilal Philips and Abdur Raheem Green come to East London Mosque (and other locations around the country) to spread their particularly conservative and intolerant strand of Islam.
Going further back, on January 1st 2009, East London Mosque hosted an event called The End of Time. Publicised with pictures of a burning New York skyline, it featured a video address by Anwar al-Awlaki, whose views Kensington and Chelsea Council has recently condemned as “not appropriate for broadcast in [council] premises”. Apparently East London Mosque was untroubled by his stated support for terrorist groups and the killing of innocent Israeli women and children.
So, despite all of these goings on at East London Mosque this year, its executive director and trustees have been nominated for awards at the Charity Times Awards. How must the other charities on the shortlists feel to be in such inauspicious company?
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The East London mosque and London Muslim Centre are truly impressive places which are a source of pride of all sincere Muslims especially those of Bengali origin. That they and the community around them have managed, entirely self funded, to produce such a vibrant place full of activities in one of the poorest places in the UK a great testimony to them and the local community.
They have produced the best Muslim centre in Europe.
Congratulations to them -they fully deserve to be nominated
They are not entirely self-funded, they have had generous grants from the Government too, damn stooges.
Funding for London Muslim Centre came from the European Development Fund, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Surestart and the London Development Agency amongst others.
Tower Hamlet alone gave four million pounds.
These payments are jizya taxes receivable by East London Mosques from the dhimmis. Shafa is correct in saying that London Muslim Centre is entirely self funded because it is funded from their jizya tax revenue.
“The East London mosque and London Muslim Centre are truly impressive places which are a source of pride of all sincere Muslims especially those of Bengali origin.”
Many thousands of “sincere Muslims especially those of Bengali origin” will take issue with that false statement. Especially after 2,000 people were swindled of their hard-earned cash to the tune of £1.7 million by the financial organisation First Solution. This company and its director Dr Fazal Mahmood was known to be linked to East London Mosque, and was headquartered in the London Muslim Centre in Whitechapel.