England. Where the government packs your lunch and the foxes trot about unmolested.
And of course nobody gets fired.
Bungling civil servants had to urgently freeze a £2 million grant they gave to an infamous mosque that has a decades-long history of alleged extremism and hate speech, The Mail on Sunday has been told.
The mosque was once featured in a Channel 4 documentary where one firebrand imam was filmed preaching violent jihad against 'the kuffar', a derogatory term for unbelievers.
Officials had transferred £77,000 to the mosque before an anti-extremism group called Focus on Western Islamism (FWI) raised the alarm. The rest of the award was halted when FWI appeared to present evidence showing how the mosque's clerics promoted hate speech.
The £2.2 million grant was offered by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), from a £300 million pot set up to fund youth centres across Britain.
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And of course nobody gets fired.
Bungling civil servants had to urgently freeze a £2 million grant they gave to an infamous mosque that has a decades-long history of alleged extremism and hate speech, The Mail on Sunday has been told.
The mosque was once featured in a Channel 4 documentary where one firebrand imam was filmed preaching violent jihad against 'the kuffar', a derogatory term for unbelievers.
Officials had transferred £77,000 to the mosque before an anti-extremism group called Focus on Western Islamism (FWI) raised the alarm. The rest of the award was halted when FWI appeared to present evidence showing how the mosque's clerics promoted hate speech.
The £2.2 million grant was offered by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), from a £300 million pot set up to fund youth centres across Britain.
Rush to stop £2MILLION grant to mosque with alleged extremist history
The Green Lane Mosque in Birmingham was awarded a £2million grant to build a youth centre, despite its imam Sheikh Zakaullah Saleem being filmed giving sermons on how to stone a woman.
