{"id":10797,"date":"2017-07-05T15:19:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T14:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=10797"},"modified":"2017-07-05T16:32:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T15:32:36","slug":"saudi-arabia-funding-uk-extremism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/saudi-arabia-funding-uk-extremism\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia funding UK extremism"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Tom<\/a>
Tom Wilson names Saudi Arabia as a major funder of extremist ideology in the UK in today’s Henry Jackson Society report<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Saudi Arabia is the leading overseas nation funding Muslim extremist ideology, a think-tank has claimed.<\/p>\n

The Henry Jackson Society is named after the late anticommunist US Democrat hawk. \u00a0It has investigated links between a number of Gulf States and British mosques.<\/p>\n

Its report, linked here, is published at a critical time<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0The UK Government refuse to release their own report on foreign funding of Islamic extremism. \u00a0Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain\u00a0and Egypt have ganged up on Qatar, accusing it of sponsoring terrorism. \u00a0That charge now looks hypocritical. \u00a0Qatar, of course, is home to the TV news station\u00a0Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia ‘Foremost’<\/h2>\n

The report’s author is one Tom Wilson. He writes: ‘The foreign funding for Islamist extremism in Britain primarily comes from governments and government linked foundations based in the Gulf, as well as Iran. Foremost among these has been Saudi Arabia,’ he writes. He discovered that since the 1960s the Arabian\u00a0state ‘has sponsored a multimillion dollar effort to export Wahhabi Islam across the Islamic world’. \u00a0Naturally, the ‘Islamic world’ includes\u00a0‘Muslim communities in the West’.<\/p>\n

‘In the UK this funding has primarily taken the form of endowments to mosques and Islamic educational institutions, which have in turn played host to extremist preachers and the distribution of extremist literature. Influence has also been exerted through the training of British Muslim religious leaders in Saudi Arabia, as well as the use of Saudi textbooks in a number of the UK\u2019s independent Islamic schools.<\/p>\n

‘A number of Britain\u2019s most serious Islamist hate preachers sit within the Salafi-Wahhabi ideology and are linked to extremism sponsored from overseas, either by having studied in Saudi Arabia as part of scholarship programmes, or by having been provided with extreme literature and material within the UK itself.’<\/p>\n

UK Wahhabist mosques increased 60%<\/h2>\n

The think-tank says the money pouring out of Saudi Arabia \u00a0has increased in recent years. This has in turn increased the number of mosques in the UK promoting Islamic extremism. \u00a0Giving references, the report says:<\/p>\n

‘In 2007 Saudi Arabia was estimated to be spending at least $2 billion annually on promoting Wahhabism worldwide. By 2015 that figure was believed to have doubled. The impact of this increased spending may well have been felt in Britain. In 2007, estimates put the number of mosques in Britain adhering to Salafism and Wahhabism at 68. \u00a0Seven years later, the number of British mosques identified with Wahhabism had risen to 110.’ \u00a0That is a 62% increase.<\/p>\n

Reaction of politicians<\/h2>\n
\"Theresa<\/a>
Theresa May getting on a bit too well with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Politicians have reacted in various ways to the report. \u00a0Labour’s Dan Jarvis, once suggested as a leadership possibility, endorsed the report.<\/p>\n

According to the BBC<\/a><\/strong>, ‘Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has called for the immediate suspension of UK arms exports to Saudi Arabia because of its human rights record and involvement in military action in Yemen.’<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Theresa May\u00a0insisted the UK’s historic relationship with the desert kingdom is important for British security and trade. \u00a0She\u00a0visited Saudi Arabia in April, and gained yet more arms deals.<\/p>\n

The Independent reports<\/a><\/strong> recent UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia are worth a whopping \u00a33.3 billion.<\/p>\n

Extremism funding report ‘may never be published’<\/h2>\n

Tom Wilson\u00a0says: ‘In June 2017 the UK government pledged to establish a commission for countering extremism.’ Accordingly, his report\u00a0calls for this new body to prioritise the issue of\u00a0foreign funding for Islamist extremism. \u00a0It also deplores the Government’s refusal so far to publish a report on the matter. \u00a0In January 2016, Prime Minister David Cameron told the Extremism Analysis Unit to investigate, as the Observer reported<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0Theresa May was then Home Secretary, responsible for the Unit.<\/p>\n

But the Guardian said in May<\/a><\/strong>: ’18 months later, the Home Office confirmed the report had not yet been completed and said it would not necessarily be published, calling the contents \u201cvery sensitive\u201d.<\/p>\n

‘A decision would be taken \u201cafter the election by the next government\u201d about the future of the investigation, a Home Office spokesman said.’<\/p>\n

MPs must take notice<\/h2>\n

Well, that’s now. \u00a0So where is the announcement of publication? \u00a0Could it be the Home Office report fingers Saudi Arabia, our main ‘Gulf Ally’ and armaments market? \u00a0The press has widely reported, for example here in the Indy<\/a><\/strong>, that Saudi Arabia and Turkey support and finance Sunni Salafist jihadist groups in Syria. \u00a0This report in The Atlantic<\/a><\/strong> highlights the importance of Salafist ideology in the terrorist mindset. \u00a0Muslim muhajideen fighting against US forces in\u00a0Afghanistan or Israel in the Holy land are encouraged and too often funded by Saudi Arabia. \u00a0But what if the Saudi-funded extremists were a bit closer to home?<\/p>\n

We need to know. \u00a0The UK Government must publish its report. \u00a0But until then, the Henry Jackson Society have done a good service in this instance. \u00a0They have shone a light into some very murky places. \u00a0We can only\u00a0pray\u00a0our MPs take notice. \u00a0The Governments’ first duty is to keep us safe. \u00a0They must take action now to stop the flow of money from this repressive, barbaric, Islamist regime.<\/p>\n

You can email your MP using this Parliament link<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0Ask your MP when\u00a0the Government will publish its report into foreign funding of extremism.<\/p>\n

Christian ethics would also demand an end to arms\u00a0sales to the Saudis (as\u00a0a start) In a complete rethink of our\u00a0foreign policy:<\/p>\n

2Chronicles 19:2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Luke 12:2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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