Britain’s Disastrous Coddling of Radical Islam
Charles Johnson
Fri Sep 8, 2006 at 2:48 pm PDT • Views: 401
The Daily Mail reports that four Muslim organizations connected to the 7/7 bombers received large sums of money from the British government.
Government grants totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds were handed out to Muslim organisations infiltrated by the July 7 suicide bombers.
Huge chunks of taxpayers’ money were given to four Leeds-based institutions that were the haunts of ring-leader Mohammed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer. Grants ranging from a few hundred pounds to £200,000 were made in Beeston, the bombers’ home territory where three of the four 7/7 bombers lived.
The money came from funds intended to regenerate the area but suspicions persist that some of the cash may have been diverted to recruit and train the home-grown terrorists who killed 52 people in last year’s attacks.
The Iqra Islamic bookshop - where hate-filled DVDs glorifying suicide bombers were produced - was one recipient.
Leeds Community School, which shared the same building with the radical bookstore, obtained a grant of over £106,000 for ‘staffing and construction costs.’
The ‘al-Qaeda gym’ in the basement of a nearby mosque used by Edgware Road bomber Khan,30, was also equipped with money provided by Leeds City Council.
The Hamara youth centre, raided by police after the four men blew themselves and where Khan’s inner circle met, received two £200,000 grants for building costs and an £189,000 EU building grant.
Details of the government financing emerged during research for a Channel 4 documentary, Cult of the Suicide Bomber.
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