Government funding to charity halted after problematic videos emerge
by Rob Preston, Civil Society:
Recently announced government funding for an Islamic charity in Birmingham has been pulled after concerns were raised over videos appearing to express “misogynistic, homophobic and antisemitic views”.
Last month, the government announced £2.2m of funding for Green Lane Masjid and Community Centre from its Youth Investment Fund.
Yesterday, the National Secular Society (NSS) wrote to culture secretary Lucy Frazer questioning the grant award due to several videos posted by the charity online, including one which appears to show a preacher describing how to stone a woman to death.
In another video from the charity, preacher Shaykh Abu Usamah At-Thahab says: “Homosexuality is not permissible.”
Another clip of Shaykh Abu Usamah At-Thahab, in a video not produced by the charity, shows him saying the football World Cup is a “Protocol of the Zionists” which explains why “those people make all that money”.
The charity has already been paid £60,000 from the fund, distributed by Social Investment Business (SIB), but the rest has now been put on hold.
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