Panicking Dwelling Workplace civil servants – who gave virtually £200,000 to a bunch led by an imam who as soon as voiced assist for the Taliban – at the moment are ‘scheming’ to cowl it up by protecting his identify out of a damning official report.
The Left-leaning Whitehall penpushers – dubbed ‘the Blob’ – are delaying the publication of the evaluation of the Forestall counter-extremism programme, claiming people named in it might sue.
However The Mail on Sunday understands that this ‘authorized ruse’ is getting used as ‘a***e overlaying’ by bureaucrats involved they could lose their jobs over the revelations.
A well-placed supply informed the MoS: ‘If it was revealed that public cash was given to individuals and teams unsuitable to obtain that cash, that could be a misuse of public funds.
‘So it must be traced again to whichever officers made these selections.’
Sources who’ve seen the Forestall evaluation informed the MoS that an imam and charity boss in Nottingham referred to as Dr Musharraf Hussain (pictured) is recognized within the report as ‘a problematic determine,’ whose organisation mustn’t have acquired the cash
The overhaul of Forestall has been stalled as Dwelling Workplace attorneys and civil servants demand the edits, towards the needs of the writer of the report, former Charity Fee chair William Shawcross, who completed it in April.
Sources who’ve seen it informed the MoS that an imam and charity boss in Nottingham referred to as Dr Musharraf Hussain is recognized within the report as ‘a problematic determine,’ whose organisation mustn’t have acquired Forestall cash.
The cleric is the chief imam and CEO of the Karimia Institute in Nottingham. Over the previous decade, Karimia is estimated to have acquired virtually £200,000 of Forestall cash.
The revered Dr Hussain has spent years campaigning towards extremism, however in 2021, because the Taliban was capturing Kabul, when requested why he felt constructive about their takeover in an interview with BBC Nottingham, he mentioned it’s ‘a tremendous alternative for the Taliban to indicate that they’ll convey actually constructive and good change’.
The Karimia runs a neighborhood radio station referred to as Daybreak, which has been reprimanded twice by Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator.
The overhaul of Forestall has been stalled as Dwelling Workplace attorneys and civil servants demand the edits, towards the needs of the writer of the report, former Charity Fee chair William Shawcross (pictured) who completed it in April
In February 2018, it was fined £2,000 after it broadcast an Islamic spiritual music referred to as Nasheed, which it mentioned constituted ‘hate speech.’
In December 2017, Ofcom additionally slammed Radio Daybreak after a non secular scholar informed a caller who was a diabetes affected person in a phone-in to not hearken to the medical recommendation of non-Muslim medical doctors. Ofcom dominated the recommendation ‘offensive’.
Final night time, when the MoS contacted Dr Hussain, he was shocked to listen to that his identify was talked about within the Forestall report, including nobody from the Dwelling Workplace has contacted him for a response forward of publication.
When requested if he would sue the Dwelling Workplace if the report talked about him negatively, Dr Hussain mentioned he would accomplish that to guard Karimia and one other charity he runs referred to as Muslims Fingers.
Final night time, Dr Hussain acknowledged he made a mistake in his BBC interview. He mentioned he was echoing what Sir Nick Carter, then Chief of Defence Employees, mentioned on the time.
The cleric, who now condemns the Taliban, added that the inflammatory Nasheed was performed on Radio Daybreak by mistake.
The Dwelling Workplace mentioned final night time: ‘The Authorities is presently reviewing the suggestions of the Impartial Evaluate and can publish the report and our response sooner or later.
‘It is just proper that the Authorities takes the time to organize and ship a thought of response.’
