Islamic radicals infiltrate the Labour Party

By Andrew Gilligan Published: 10:00PM GMT twenty-seven February 2010

Jim Fitzpatrick, the Environment Minister

The Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) - that believes in jihad and sharia law, and wants to spin Britain and Europe in to an Islamic state - has placed sympathisers in inaugurated bureau and claims, correctly, to be means to grasp "mass mobilisation" of voters.

Speaking to The Sunday Telegraph, Jim Fitzpatrick, the Environment Minister, pronounced the IFE had become, in effect, a tip celebration inside of Labour and alternative domestic parties.

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"They are behaving roughly as an entryist organisation, fixation people inside of the domestic parties, recruiting members to those domestic parties, perplexing to get people comparison and inaugurated so they can practice domestic change and power, either the at internal supervision turn or inhabitant level," he said.

"They are utterly at contingency with Labours programme, with the await for secularism."

Mr Fitzpatrick, the MP for Poplar and Canning Town, pronounced the IFE had infiltrated and "corrupted" his celebration in easterly London in the same approach that the far-Left Militant Tendency did in the 1980s. Leaked Labour lists show a 110 per cent climb in celebration membership in one subdivision in dual years.

In a six-month review by this journal and Channel 4s Dispatches, involving weeks of growth filming by the programmes reporters:

IFE activists boasted to the clandestine reporters that they had already "consolidated … a lot of change and power" over Tower Hamlets, a London precinct legislature with a �1 billion budget. We have determined that the organization and the allies were awarded some-more than �10 million of taxpayers money, majority of it from supervision supports written to "prevent aroused extremism". IFE leaders were available expressing antithesis to democracy, await for sharia law or derisive black people. The IFE organized meetings with extremists, together with Taliban allies, a man declared by the US supervision as an "unindicted co-conspirator" in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and a man underneath review by the FBI for his links to the Sep eleven attacks. Moderate Muslims in London told how the IFE and the allies were enforcing their hardline views on the rest of the internal community, curbing poise they deemed "un-Islamic". The owners of a dating organization perceived a melancholy email from an IFE activist, notice her to close it. George Galloway, a London MP, certified in recordings performed by this journal that his warn feat in the 2005 choosing due some-more to the IFE "than it would be correct for them for me to say, adding that they played a "decisive role" in his delight at the polls.

Mr Galloway right away says they were one of majority groups that upheld his anti-war position and had never sought to change him.

The IFE has quite close links to Tower Hamlets council. Seven portion and former councillors pronounced Lutfur Rahman, the stream legislature leader, gained his post with the groups help.

Some pronounced they were canvassed by a comparison IFE central on his behalf. After Mr Rahman was elected, a man with close links to the group, Lutfur Ali, was allocated partner arch senior manager of the legislature with shortcoming for accede to funding.

This was notwithstanding a checkered practice record, a dubious CV and a disastrous inform from the headhunters allocated to cruise the candidates. The councils white arch senior manager was subsequently forced from his post.

Since Mr Rahman became leader, some-more legislature grants have been paid to a series of organisations that the review determined are closely related to the IFE.

Funding for other, physical groups was finished or cut. In the boroughs obvious Brick Lane area, legislature supports were switched from a mostly physical birthright route to a rarely argumentative "hijab sculpture", angering majority residents who indicted the legislature of "religious triumphalism".

Schools in Tower Hamlets are told by the legislature should close for the Muslim legal holiday of Eid, even where majority of their pupils are not Muslim.

Mr Rahman refused to repudiate that an IFE romantic had canvassed councillors on his behalf. He said: "There are assorted people opposite Tower Hamlets who get excited, who get involved."

He would not criticism on concerns about infiltration, observant they were "party matters". He said: "If you see at the flagship policies, similar to investing �20 million to plunge into overcrowding, you can see that we are operative for everyone."

The IFE pronounced it did not find to change the legislature and had not lobbied for Mr Rahman. "If anything, existent members of the Labour Party have assimilated the IFE, rather than the alternative approach round," it said.

The organization insisted it was not a fundamentalist or nonconformist organization and did not await violence.