Saturday, October 30, 2010

Muslim Cleric Answers "What Is Islam?"

Anjem Chaudary must be some kind of Islamophobe: "This is something, you know, the Muslims around the world, I don't think would differ with. They may say one thing to you in front of CNN. But I can assure you behind your backs, in every masjid and every community center, they are standing with their Muslim brothers and sisters saying, We hope the Americans and British are pushed out of our countries, and we can implement the Sharia."

Qur'an 3:28 warns believers not to take unbelievers as "friends or helpers" (َأَوْلِيَا -- a word that means more than casual friendship, but something like alliance), "unless (it be) that ye but guard yourselves against them." This is a foundation of the idea that believers may legitimately deceive unbelievers when under pressure. The word used for "guard" in the Arabic is tuqātan (تُقَاةً), the verbal noun from taqiyyatan -- hence the increasingly familiar term taqiyya. Ibn Kathir says that the phrase Pickthall renders as "unless (it be) that ye but guard yourselves against them" means that "believers who in some areas or times fear for their safety from the disbelievers" may "show friendship to the disbelievers outwardly, but never inwardly. For instance, Al-Bukhari recorded that Abu Ad-Darda' said, 'We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them.' Al-Bukhari said that Al-Hasan said, 'The Tuqyah [taqiyya] is allowed until the Day of Resurrection." While many Muslim spokesmen today maintain that taqiyya is solely a Shi'ite doctrine, shunned by Sunnis, the great Islamic scholar Ignaz Goldziher points out that while it was formulated by Shi'ites, "it is accepted as legitimate by other Muslims as well, on the authority of Qur'an 3:28." The Sunnis of Al-Qaeda practice it today.

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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Parents are warned over men in cars

POLICE in Rotherham are asking parents to report suspicious behaviour outside schools after claims men in cars have been stopping and talking to children.

Two incidents, both on Lodge Lane, Aston, have been reported to officers.The first was reported by a woman who was walking along Lodge Lane with her three-year-old son, who was walking a short distance ahead of her.She said two men in a dark, She said two men in a dark,
parked car called the boy over to speak to them

The men were Asian, aged in their mid-30s, had short, dark hair, were clean shaven and wearing dark clothing.

They were in a dark blue or black saloon-style car.

The second incident was reported by a woman who said her eight-year-old son was walking along Lodge Lane on his way to school when a car stopped and a man in a small, dark car asked him to get inside but he refused and ran into school.

Patrols around Lodge Lane have been stepped up and letters sent to parents.

Monday, October 25, 2010

Cafe Owner Forced to Remove Fan over Smell of Frying Bacon...


A hard-working cafe owner has been ordered to tear down an extractor fan - because the smell of her frying bacon 'offends' Muslims.

Planning bosses acted against Beverley Akciecek, 49, after being told her next-door neighbour's Muslim friends had felt 'physically sick' due to the 'foul odour'.

Councillors at Stockport Council in Greater Manchester say the smell from the fan is 'unacceptable on the grounds of residential amenity'.

Cafe owner Beverley Akciecek has been ordered to tear down an extractor fan by the council because the smell of cooked bacon 'offends' Muslims

The fan has been in Beverley's Snack Shack takeaway in the Shaw Heath area of the town for the past three years.

Mrs Akciecek and her husband Cetin, 50, - himself a Turkish Muslim - work more than 50 hours a week buying, preparing and cooking hot and cold sandwiches and hot-pots for their customers.

Today mother-of-seven Mrs Akciecek said she plans to appeal against the decision.

She said: 'I just think it's crazy. Cetin's friends actually visit the shop, they're regular visitors, they're Muslim people, they come in a couple of times a week.

'I have Muslim people come in for cheese toasties. Cetin cooks the food himself, he cooks the bacon.

'When we go to a cafe my husband wouldn't be offended by the smell of bacon. His friends are not offended by it, we have three visitors who come here for a sandwich, friends of my husband, and the smell doesn't offend them at all.

'My brother-in-law doesn't flinch if he comes and we've just taken out three trays of bacon.

'I'm going to find a local councillor. I'm waiting for the letter so I can appeal.'

The couple took over the take-away in 2007 from the previous owner and replaced the existing extractor fan, which had been there for six years, with a new modern one.

They claim they received no complaints about the cafe which is open from 7.30am-2.30pm six days a week, until around 18 months ago when they received a letter from environmental services to say their neighbour Graham Webb-Lee had complained about the smell.

Mrs Akciecek said: 'We've never had a problem about the smell because everything is pre-cooked. We cook it in the oven so there's no foul smell.

'It's pre-cooked so the smell isn't as strong when we're frying it off. It's like living next to someone who's cooking a Sunday breakfast but it's not constant it's just in the morning.

'It's been a sandwich shop for about eight years, cooking exactly the same stuff. The lady before me did double because they were actually building new houses across the road so she was really busy. She was here from 6am-4pm because they were so busy.

'They were there before me but they were also there when the lady who owns the business was here and she was doing double what we are. She had five staff, you can imagine how bust that shop was and they never complained at all.'

They say that the council's environmental services had been out to inspect their property after their neighbour complained about a foul odour last year, but they ruled that the smell was not causing a problem.

Mrs Akciecek said: 'Environmental services said everything is ok. They kept coming back and guaging it and said there was no problem and because they didn't take any action (the neighbours) complained again.'

The couple had never applied for planning permission as they had simply replaced an existing extractor fan with one of the same size and in the same position, but, following further complaints from their neighbour, they were informed by the council they would have to apply retrospectively as an objection had been raised.

They applied for planning permission in May this year, but the application was refused at a meeting of Stockport Area Committee on October 14.

Mr Webb-Lee objected to the aplication - complaining that his Muslim friends refused to visit him becase they 'can't stand the smell of bacon'.

Mrs Akciecek, who also attended the meeting, said: 'He said he had a daughter with an eating disorder, the Muslim friends, and the bad smell all the time is making his clothes smell.

'The councillors agreed with him without even asking me what I thought. It was as if they didn't even realise I was there.

'This cafe is our only source of income.

There are only two of us working, we haven't got any staff anymore. We work seven hours in the shop and my husband goes to the cash and carry and has all the prep work to do. We're working long hours. He does about 50 hours a week easy and I'm working about the same and we work Saturdays.

'The shop will be a lot harder work.

It will be a good hour a day washing the walls down, I will not work anywhere with the grease falling down the walls. We can't move it anywhere.

'I'm not going to accept it and we're going to fight it.'

Mr Webb-Lee said: 'The vent is 12 inches from my front door. Every morning the smell of bacon comes through and makes me physically sick.

'I have a lot of Muslim friends. They refuse to visit me anymore because they can't stand the smell of bacon.'

A spokesman for Stockport Council said: 'The retrospective application was rejected on the grounds of residential amenity, as the committee felt the odours given off from the vent were unacceptable for neighbouring residents.

'We will ensure that the cafe complies with this decision and removes the extractor fan.

Hate Cleric Gets to Stay in Britian

HOOK-handed mullah Abu Hamza has won a reprieve from deportation after the Home Office’s expert witness changed his mind.

The department wants to be able to boot evil Hamza, 52, out for good after he was found guilty on race hate and terror charges.

But witness General Adel Abdul Maqsoud Afify has decided not to testify to a Special Immigration Appeals Tribunal. It came after he read more evidence about the case.

London borough becomes "Islamic republic"

Outside the Wellington Way polling station in Tower Hamlets yesterday, as at many other polling stations in the borough, people had to run a gauntlet of Lutfur Rahman supporters to reach the ballot box. As one Bengali woman voter went past them, we heard one of the Rahman army scolding her for her "immodest dress."

That incident is perhaps a tiny taste of the future for Britain's poorest borough now it has elected Mr Rahman as its first executive mayor, with almost total power over its £1 billion budget. At the count last night, one very senior figure in the Tower Hamlets Labour Party said: "It really is Britain's Islamic republic now."

For the last eight months - without complaint or challenge from Mr Rahman - this blog and newspaper have laid out his close links with a group of powerful local businessmen and with a Muslim supremacist body, the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) - which believes, in its own words, in transforming the "very infrastructure of society, its institutions, its culture, its political order and its creed... from ignorance to Islam." Mr Rahman has refused to deny these claims.

We have told how the borough's change from a conventional council leader to a mayoral system came about as a result of a campaign led and financed by these two groups - and how the IFE, in its words, wanted to "get one of our brothers" into the position.

We have described in detail, again without complaint or challenge by Mr Rahman, his deeply problematic two years as council leader until he was removed from that post six months ago, partly as a result of our investigations. After he secured the leadership with the help of the IFE, millions of pounds were channelled to front organisations of the IFE, a man with close links to the IFE was appointed as assistant chief executive of the council despite being unqualified for the position and the secular, white chief executive was forced out.

Various efforts were made to "Islamicise" the borough. Extremist literature was stocked in Tower Hamlets' public libraries.
We have described, once more without complaint or challenge from Mr Rahman, how he signed up entire families of sham "paper" Labour members to win the party's mayoral nomination - acts which caused him to be sacked as the Labour candidate by the party's National Executive Committee.

Now, however, Mr Rahman has won as an independent - getting more than double the number of votes of the Labour candidate imposed in his place, Helal Abbas. As mayor, he will have far more power than he had as a council leader. And unlike a council leader, no-one can sack him, except the voters in four years' time....

Islamic supremacists calling for the mass-murder of Ahmadis

Islamic extremists have started openly calling for the destruction of a controversial Muslim sect in a major escalation of sectarian conflict within British Islam, an investigation by The Independent has revealed.

Members of the Ahmadiyya Community have seen a significant upsurge in threats and intimidation over the past four months, sparked by an extremist attack on two of their largest mosques in Pakistan earlier this year.

Hardline Islamists in Britain have been distributing leaflets calling for the murder of AhmadiMuslims in Kingston-upon-Thames whilst mosques have been vandalised in Newham and Crawley.

Preachers in south London have also been orchestrating a boycott of Ahmadi businesses and Ofcom has had to reprimand an Islamic satellite channel for repeatedly calling the sect "Wajib-ul Qatal" - an Arabic phrase used to describe those who digress from mainstream Islam that translates as "liable for death".

Community leaders say the upsurge in animosity towards Ahmadis is directly linked to violence in Pakistan where local Taliban militants have declared war on sects that they deem to be heretical such as the Ahmadis and the Shi'a.

Although the Ahmadis have been targeted by extremists in the past, the combined attacks on two mosques in Lahore in May was the most brazen assault on their community yet, with 93 worshippers killed as they gathered for Friday prayers, including a number of Britons.

Since the mid 1980s the Ahmadi community has been headquartered in Morden, south London, after their leaders were forced to flee Pakistan, the only country in the world that legally forbids them from declaring themselves Muslims.

They claim to have 70 million adherents worldwide although detractors say the number is closer to two million. An estimated 15,000 live in Britain including their spiritual leader Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad.

The Ahmadi leadership had hoped the attacks in Lahore would prompt an outpouring of sympathy among British Muslims.

Instead, they say, it has emboldened a minority of extremists to openly target them in an upsurge in intimidation....

What a surprise!

Pakistan VS UK


Halal hairdressing comes to Scotland

With its frosted windows, CCTV cameras, and tightly monitored security entrance, it is going to be one of Aberdeen's most secretive business enterprises.

So, you could be forgiven for wondering if the shop has something to hide.

Well, it does - its customers. Or rather it is the customers who want to remain hidden.

For this is Scotland's first 'halal hairdressers' - a beauty salon which conforms to the strict rules of Islam; a place were Muslim women who wear the veil or headscarf can be seen uncovered without the risk of the gaze of men.

Discreet Creative Hairdressing, scheduled to open in three weeks, is the brainchild of 21-year-old Mahida Iqbal and her husband of nine months, Fueb Mieh.

The salon will be a 'man-free zone'. The frosted windows will stop any inquisitive men passing by from gawping at the clients. No-one can get in without passing through a secure buzzer entry system with CCTV. All this means that the Muslim ladies who have come for a new hair-do can remove their headscarves safe in the knowledge that only other women can see them....

"It is somewhere where customers can feel comfortable, feel pampered and relaxed, knowing that no-one is going to come in and disturb them," Iqbal added. "Muslim husbands can feel relaxed knowing that their wife is safe, where no man is going to be able to see them, and then they can come home and show their beauty. Muslim clients have never experienced this ever. It's a great feeling."

Police are sorry, so very very sorry, that they put surveillance cameras in Muslim areas

West Midlands Police Authority has admitted mistakes were made in the way 200 surveillance cameras were put up in largely Muslim areas of Birmingham.

The cameras, some of which were hidden, were paid for with £3m of government money earmarked for tackling terrorism.

But the force had to apologise and later commissioned an independent review after angry residents said they had not been consulted.

The report said it put relations with the Muslim community back 10 years.

The scheme, called Project Champion, involved cameras being put up by the Safer Birmingham Project (SBP), made up of the city council, police and agencies in the Washwood Heath and Sparkbrook districts.

Last month West Midlands Police Chief Constable Chris Sims apologised after the report by Thames Valley Police said the force showed "little evidence of thought being given to compliance with the legal or regulatory framework" before the cameras were put up.

And in a statement, Derek Webley, chairman of the West Midlands Police Authority, said: "The authority accepts the findings and recommendations of the report by Chief Constable Sara Thornton of Thames Valley Police.

"We acknowledge that we did not get things right and want to take a positive approach to addressing what the report has found.

"Now, we have the recommendations from the report, we want to move forward in several areas: How we work, how we hold the force to account, how we scrutinise, how we question and how we challenge.

'Rebuild trust'

"The authority wants to work with the community to take this matter forward to a position where we are able to rebuild the trust and confidence of those in the area.

"Without this we know that we cannot deliver the policing that the public want to keep them safe from harm."

Civil liberties groups have threatened legal action if the force does not agree to remove all the cameras in the next two weeks.

All covert cameras have been removed and the remainder have been covered with bags....

After all, what did they expect to see in Muslim areas? Evidence of terrorist activity? Pshaw! And now the police have to do extra work to build bridges and restore trust with the Muslim community. Does the Muslim community have any responsibility to demonstrate its loyalty, its renunciation of the elements of Sharia that are at variance with British law, and its rejection of jihad and Islamic supremacism? Pshaw!

Friday, October 15, 2010

Serial Pedophile Has Fondness for 13-Year-Olds...

A ROTHERHAM man on trial for having sex with two 13-year-old girls had six years previously indecently assaulted another girl, also aged 13, Sheffield Crown Court heard.

Razwan Razaq is one of eight men accused of 23 different sexual offences against four young teenagers in Rotherham in 2008.

Razaq, now aged 30, admitted having sex with two of the girls, both aged 13, but told the jury he was "100 per cent convinced" they were over 16.

Prosecutor Sarah Wright told the court Razaq, of Oxford Street, Clifton, had previously served a sentence for indecent assault after he molested a 13-year-old girl in July 2002.

The incident took place in his car after the girl, who he thought was 16, asked him to buy her beer at a shop in Broom.

After pleading guilty to the offence he was handed a sexual offences prevention order, under which he could not "have access to or control of" any girl under 16 without her parent's consent.

He was also banned from inviting under 16s into his car.

Ms Wright, cross-examining Razaq, said: "You say in 2002 it was very unfortunate you had a sexual encounter with a 13-year-old girl. And then in 2008 you were duped by two girls of 13.

"Are you saying to the ladies and gentlemen of the jury that lightning struck three times?"

Razaq replied: "It was unfortunate for me. Very unfortunate.

"It is the worst thing that has ever happened to me. The last two years have been hell."

He said the girls he picked up in 2008 were "obviously quite streetwise."

"I looked at the way they were acting, the things they did and the way they were dressed. They were smoking and drinking and were out until 11 at night. They didn't look 13, no way.

"They told me they were over 16 and I believed them. It's not my fault they lied to me."

Also on trial is Razwan's brother Umar Razaq, aged 24, also of Oxford Street, who denies all charges, as do Mohammed Zafran Ramzan, 21, Broom Grove, Broom; Mohsin Khan, 21, of Haworth Crescent, Moorgate; Shazad Akbar, 23, of Shirecliffe Lane, Sheffield; Saeed Hussain, 29, of Hatherley Road, Eastwood; Adil Hussain, 20, of Nelson Street; and Shalzaad Hussain, 22, of Clough Road, Masbrough

According to Sharia, rape is not possible in marriage, says Islamophobe Muslim cleric

There cannot be rape within marriage, a Muslim cleric in Britain has ruled. A key Muslim leader in the country promptly denounced the views as 'misguided' and 'inappropriate'.

"In Islamic Sharia, rape is adultery by force. So long as the woman is his wife, it cannot be termed as rape," The Independent quoted cleric Sheikh Maulana Abu Sayeed as saying.

Men accused of raping their wives should not be prosecuted as "sex is part of marriage", said Sayeed, president of the Islamic Sharia Council in Britain.

He made the comments to the blog The Samosa -- and reiterated them to the The Independent.

Sayeed told the website: "Clearly there cannot be any rape within the marriage. Maybe aggression, maybe indecent activity... Because when they got married, the understanding was that sexual intercourse was part of the marriage, so there cannot be anything against sex in marriage.

"Of course, if it happened without her desire, that is no good, that is not desirable."

British law makes rape within marriage illegal.

Sayeed also suggested that women who claim to have been raped by their husbands should not immediately go to the police.

"Not in the beginning, unless we establish that it really happened. Because in most of the cases, wives... have been advised by their solicitors that one of the four reasons for which a wife can get a divorce is rape, so they are encouraged to say things like this."

Asked how men found to have raped their wives were to be punished, he said: "He may be disciplined, and he may be made to ask forgiveness. That should be enough."...


And this well respected (in the Islamic community) cleric's organization the Islamic Shariah Council represents all these other Islamic organizations, as well.

From their website:

1. London Central Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre, London.

2. Muslim World League

3. Markazi Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith, UK

4. UK Islamic Mission

5. D'awatul Islam, UK

6. Jamia Mosque & Islamic Centre, Birmingham

7. Islamic Centre, Glasgow

8. Islamic Centre, Didsbury, Manchester

9. Jamia Masjid Hanafiya, Bradford

10. Muslim Welfare House, London

11. East London Mosque


So, it is far from some lone troll on a street corner making crazy assertions now, isn't it?

It all is a bit confusing: you are allowed to rape prisoners of war and slave girls, but consenting sex with a free woman is adultery and forbidden. Except when she is your wife, then you again are free to rape her: so a woman in a Muslim marriage is considered a slave? Something in the logic is not quite right.

"Hate campaign discovered against south London Ahmadiyya Islamic minority,"

An international hate campaign by Islamic fundamentalists against a minority sect has spread to Britain and is causing a dangerous rift in south London's Muslim community.

The situation has been likened to the "beginnings of the Holocaust" by a leading expert who is urging the police to act.

Lord Avebury, the long-serving vice-chairman of the Parliamentary Human Rights Group, said the extremist views were being imported from Pakistan and compared the vilification of Ahmadiyya Muslims with the beginnings of the Holocaust.

Our investigation has revealed shocking examples of Ahmadi residents, businessmen and politicians being demonised and ostracised by UK Islamic fundamentalist group Khatme Nabuwat (KN).

Ahmadi-owned businesses have been boycotted and face ruin, while employers have been pressurised into sacking Ahmadi workers.

The hate campaign even infected the General Election result after a campaign to discourage Muslims voting for an Ahmadi Liberal Democrat candidate in Tooting.

There are an estimated 13,000 Ahmadi Muslims living and working in south west London, who were drawn to the area after its first mosque was built in Southfields.

Ahmadiyya Muslims differ from mainstream Islam by believing the second coming of the Messiah has already happened and is embodied by their founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.

Their two main mosques are the London Mosque, built in 1926 in Gressenhall Road, Southfields, and the massive Bait-ul-Fatah mosque in Morden, built in 2003 - which their website claims is the largest mosque in Western Europe.

Since then, many Ahmadis who have fled religious persecution in Pakistan have come to live in Merton, Wandsworth, Kingston and Lambeth....

Muslim woman dies after being found on fire

A 23-year old woman has died after she was found on fire behind a house in Bradford, police have said.

West Yorkshire Police and fire crews were called to a property on Cloudsdale Avenue, south of the city centre, at 1915 BST on Thursday.

A force spokesman said the woman, who was found "alight", was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police said the death was being treated as suspicious and forensic science experts remained at the scene.

A post-mortem examination is to take place later.

Shocked neighbours in the quiet cul-de-sac told BBC News that the dead woman had lived in the street for about a year after moving from Pakistan to live with her in-laws....

Aziza Kahn, who lives nearby, said she believed the woman was pregnant and lived at the property with her husband, mother-in-law and two sisters-in-law....

"She was a young girl, we thought she was about 17 or 18, and she was pregnant."

Another neighbour, Rahana Kosar, said she believed the woman had been in the UK for less than a year but that she rarely came out of the house.

"I've heard she's an Asian lady and I don't think her parents are in this country," she said. "We're all Asians round here but she never came out the house."

Thursday, October 7, 2010

66-Year-Old Woman Sexually Assaulted in Home...


Police have released an e-fit of a man they want to speak to after a 66-year-old woman was sexually assaulted by an intruder at her West Yorkshire home.

The man broke into the woman's home in Newsome, Huddersfield, in the early hours of Thursday while she was asleep.

After the assault he left the house through a bedroom window.

The attacker was described as an Asian man in his 20s or 30s. He was wearing a long-sleeved top. Police urged anyone with information to come forward.

Det Insp Nick Wallen, of West Yorkshire Police, said: "The victim of this attack is currently being cared for by specially trained professionals.

"Fortunately she was not physically harmed, but has been left badly shaken by what happened to her."

Two men aged 20 and 32 who were arrested in connection with the incident and later bailed have now been released without charge.

Teenagers accused of killing autistic boy, 12, in house fire

A disabled boy, left alone by his mother so she could go to work, died after two teenagers deliberately set fire to the house, a jury heard.

Damian Clough, 12, was killed by poisonous fumes in the slow-burning blaze at his home in Keighley on April 4 last year.

His mother, Julie Clough, said she left Damian asleep in his bedroom.

Fighting back tears, she told the Court she was mentally tired and had expected Damian’s sister back soon.

Mrs Clough, who worked as a part-time barmaid, said she was called back to the house in Kinara Close, Stockbridge, later that night because it was on fire.

Nasir Khan, 18, of Buxton Street, Dalton Lane, Keighley, and a 17-year-old youth, who cannot be named because of his age, deny Damian’s manslaughter.

Their trial, expected to last three weeks, started at Bradford Crown Court yesterday in front of Mr Justice Treacy.

Prosecutor Julian Goose QC alleged that Khan and the 17-year-old started two fires in the house before 10pm and ran off.

A neighbour raised the alarm at 11.28pm and firefighters were confronted by intense heat and black smoke.

Damian was found dead in his bedroom from inhaling smoke and toxic gases.

The family dog, also dead, was lying across the door to his room, Mr Goose said.

Experts said a naked flame was used to deliberately set fire to an armchair in the living room. Another fire, in the kitchen, went out after causing minor damage.

The jury heard that Damian had a number of disabilities. He was severely autistic and had severe learning difficulties.

His “highly obsessive” behaviour included shredding mattresses and wallpaper. Damian could not be left to sleep with his bedroom door open and he had broken off the internal handle.

Mr Goose said Damian’s condition meant he was unable to react to any danger.

His mother, who was his main carer, never usually left him in the house alone. She went to work on the night of the blaze after settling him and giving him his medication.

Mr Goose told the jury: “With the support of the local authority social services department and the housing association, Julie Clough was trying to cope the best she could in an extremely difficult situation. The fact remains, however, that when the defendants and their three friends entered the house, Damian was asleep and alone in his room from which he had no means of escape.”

The court heard that the five youths had bought alcohol and cigarettes and spent time at the Hollywood Bowl.

Mr Goose said they entered Damian’s home through the back door and made themselves at home.

Three of the teenagers then left, leaving the defendants in the house.

Mr Goose said: “The prosecution say that both of these defendants caused the death of Damian Clough by acting together in setting a fire or fires inside the house and then escaping.”

The trial continues

British Schoolgirls Forced to Wear the Niqab...

Islamic schools have introduced uniform policies which force girls to wear the burka or a full headscarf and veil known as the niqab.

Moderate followers of Islam said yesterday that enforcement of the veil was a "dangerous precedent" and that children attending such schools were being "brainwashed".

The Sunday Telegraph has established that three UK institutions have introduced a compulsory veil policy when girls are walking to or from school. They are:

Madani Girls' School in east London;
Jamea Al Kauthar in Lancaster;
Jameah Girls' Academy in Leicester.

All three are independent, fee-paying, single-sex schools for girls aged 11 to 18. Critics warned that the spectacle of burka-clad pupils entering and leaving the schools at the start and end of the day could damage relations between Muslim and non-Muslim communities.

Ed Husain, co-director of Quilliam, the counter-extremist think-tank, said: "It is absurd that schools are enforcing this outdated ritual – one that which sends out a damaging message that Muslims do not want to fully partake in British society.

"Although it is not the government's job to dictate how its citizens dress, it should nonetheless ensure that such schools are not bankrolled or subsidised by the British taxpayer."

He added: "The enforcing of the niqab on young girls is not a mainstream Islamic practice – either in Britain or in most Muslim-majority countries.

"It is a desert practice which belongs to another century and another world."

Dr Taj Hargey, an imam and chairman of the Muslim Educational Centre of Oxford, said: "This is very disturbing and sets a dangerous precedent.

"It means that Muslim children are being brainwashed into thinking they must segregate and separate themselves from mainstream society.

"The use of taxpayers' money for such institutions should be absolutely opposed. The wearing of the burka or niqab is a tribal custom and these garments are not even mentioned in the Koran."

Philip Hollobone, the Tory MP who has attempted to bring in a Private Members' Bill to ban wearing of the burka in public, also condemned the schools' uniform policies.

"It is very sad in 21st century Britain that three schools are effectively forcing girls as young as 11 to hide their faces," he said.

"How on earth are these young ladies going to grow up as part of a fully integrated society if they are made to regard themselves as objects at such a young age?"

Conservative councillors have accused Labour-controlled Tower Hamlets council of subsidising Madani Girls' School by selling the school its current premises for £320,000 below market value.

In late 2008 the council agreed to sell the Victorian building, previously Grenfell Primary School, to Madani's trustees for £1.33 million even though a valuation at the time said it was worth £1.65 million.

At the time there were plans to turn Madani into a state-funded Muslim school, one of only a handful in Britain.

The sale of the site was presented to councillors as the "next significant step" towards the school obtaining voluntary aided status. These plans have now stalled, according to the council.

Councillors were advised to allow the sale at a loss because the price had been agreed in 2004 when it represented a fair market value.

The deal had been delayed by four years because the school needed to raise funds, but council chiefs wanted to honour the originally-agreed figure.

However, council minutes from December 2008 show that Tim Archer, a Tory councillor, warned that "a council asset was being sold below market value and public money was being used to subsidise the purchase".

He also suggested the school was in breach of the council's inclusiveness policy.

Madani, which has 260 pupils, charges fees of £1,900 a year. Its website states: "All payments should be made in cash. We do not accept cheques."

School uniform rules listed on the website have been deleted but an earlier version, seen by this newspaper, stated: "The present uniform conforms to the Islamic Code of dressing. Outside the school, this comprises of the black Burka and Niqab."

The admission application form warns girls will be "appropriately punished" for failing to wear the correct uniform, and its website adds: "If parents are approached by the Education Department regarding their child's education, they should not disclose any information without discussing it with the committee."

Madani Girls' School, which is a listed as a private limited company and was removed from the Charity Commission's records at the end of last year, was visited by Ofsted in 2008 but the inspectorate's report makes no mention of the strict uniform code.

It rated the school's overall performance as "satisfactory" but noted that "the history curriculum is limited to Islamic history in Key Stage 3". A number of aspects of school life were praised, including pupil behaviour.

Explaining the school's ethos, Madani's website says: "If we oppose the lifestyle of the west then it does not seem sensible that the teachers and the system, which represents that lifestyle, should educate our children."

Jamea Al Kauthar is a £2,500-a-year girls' boarding school, which accommodates 400 pupils in the grounds of Lancaster's former Royal Albert Hospital.

It states on its website: "Black Jubbah [smock-like outer garment] and dopatta [shawl] is compulsory as well as purdah (veil) when leaving and returning to Jamea. Scarves are strictly not permitted."

The website also lists a wide range of banned items, including family photographs, and warns: "Students must not cut their hair, nor remove hair from between their eyebrows. Doing so will lead to suspention (sic)."

Jamea Al Kauthar was rated "outstanding" by Ofsted earlier this year.

In Leicester, Jameah Girls Academy, which charges £1,750 a year for primary-age pupils and £1,850 for secondary, states in its rules: "Uniform, as set out in the pupil/parent handbook, which comprises of headscarf and habaya for all pupils, and niqab for girls attending the secondary years, to be worn during journeys to and from The Academy."

Anastasia de Waal, deputy director of think-tank Civitas, said: "We now have a scenario where schools such as these will be able to apply to become free schools, under the Government's policy, and therefore receive state funding. We need absolute clarity on what the position is going to be on such applications."

None of the schools responded to questions posed by The Sunday Telegraph.

A spokeswoman for Tower Hamlets said of Madani: "The local authority is not currently in talks with the school to enable it to become voluntary aided but we were in talks previously.

"With regards to sale of the site, it was agreed by Cabinet in 2004 to sell the freehold of the property to the Madani Girls School for £1.33m, which represented the market value at that time.

"The sale was delayed due to the need for the school to raise funds. The school managed to secure the money in 2008 where it was agreed at a Cabinet meeting in November 2008 the sale would be honoured at the previously agreed price of £1.33 million as the proposed sale would raise capital to invest in new projects and benefit the community.

"A local authority has the discretion to sell at an 'undervalue' of up to £2,000,000."

and Ofsted inspectors have approved them

Woman Loses Job for Refusing to Wear Headscarf...

A Muslim woman has been awarded more than £13,500 after she was sacked for refusing to wear a headscarf at the estate agency where she worked.

Ghazala Khan - a 31-year-old non-practising Muslim - was fired less than two weeks into her job at a company run by traditional Muslim businessman Masood Ghafoor simply because she refused to cover her hair.

Mr Ghafoor told Miss Khan, who had nine years experience in the trade, that his wife and female relatives all wore full veils or burkas, telling her that her parents had given her 'far too much freedom'.

A tribunal heard that Miss Khan had been employed to run Mr Ghafoor's Go Go Real Estate office in Leeds, West Yorkshire, in June 2009.

However, within days of working there she was left feeling 'very uncomfortable and intimidated' when Mr Ghafoor put it to her that she had not been brought up as a 'good Muslim' and that if she had been his daughter she would not be allowed to work and would have been long since 'married off'.

He asked her to wear a headscarf at work - even though white non-Muslim women he employed in the same office were never asked to and never did.

On the day she was due to start her third week in the job, Mr Ghafoor told her not to bother coming in.

When she eventually caught up with him later that evening he told her that members of the Muslim community had been 'gossiping' and suggested that she was not 'respectable' and that there might be 'something going on' between her and members of staff.

Mr Ghafoor added that his cousin Shakeel, who was also employed in the office, was unhappy working with a female especially as she did not wear a headscarf, was not religious and was Westernised.

Graduate Miss Khan, who represented herself at the hearing in Leeds, won her claim for discrimination on the grounds of her lack of religion or belief, by dismissing her and sex discrimination.

She has been awarded £13,566.67 for injury to feelings, loss of earnings and unpaid holiday pay.

The tribunal concluded: 'Ms Khan described herself as British Pakistani, meaning that she is of Asian racial origin and of Pakistani national origin.

'She also described herself as a non-practising Muslim, meaning that she identified with the Muslim religon but did not attend her local mosque, pray regularly or cover her hair.

'The respondent on the other hand is a practising Muslim with traditional religious and cultural beliefs.'

The tribunal heard that at her job interview Miss Khan had worn a grey pinstripe trouser suit, described as 'conventional modern professional dress'.

Non-practising: Miss Khan said she 'identified with the Muslim religion but did not attend her local mosque, pray regularly or cover her hair'

Mr Ghafoor wanted her to run the office when he was out on business, telling her he wanted 'someone professional in the front office' and she began work there on June 17 last year.

The tribunal heard that Mr Ghafoor had originally told Miss Khan there was no problem with the way she dressed.

'He was happy that she was fully covered up by the black trousers and long sleeved blouses and tops that she wore to work,' the tribunal heard.

'By the time of the hearing, he was saying that she had chosen to wear clothing of a very revealing nature.'

After sacking Miss Khan on June 30, Mr Ghafoor went on to acknowledge that Miss Khan had not done anything wrong at work and that it was not her fault.

'He was happy with her work, it was just that they could not have a woman working in the office,' the tribunal ruled.

'He added that they had had a 'problem' like that before with what he described as a Westernised young Muslim Asian woman working there.

'They had dismissed her too after a few days for essentially the same reason.

'In her case, however, the respondent had found her another job in a friend's office.

The tribunal concluded: 'We find that the respondent treated the claimant less favourably by dismissing her and not his white women employees because she would not cover her hair.

'That refusal on Ms Khan's part was owing to a lack of belief that her religion obliged her to do so.
'Whilst she identified with the Muslim faith, she did not agree with its practices as applied to women.

'That was the ground for her dismissal, although it can be said that the refusal to wear a headscarf was simply a manifestation of a lack of belief.

'We do not think, however, that such a narrow interpretation is appropriate on these facts.

'For the authorities indicate that an employer is entitled to maintain a 'secular' workplace by eluding manifestations of religious belief from working practices and dress, if it deems it appropriate in the circumstances.

'We can see no reason why that principle should not apply to an employee in the circumstances of this case.

'Further, we decided that a purely cultural interpretation of the requirement to wear a headscarf was too narrow.

'We agree with Ms Khan that the requirement is a mixture of the cultural and the religious in so far as it is derived from a particular interpretation of Islamic scriptures.

'As for sex discrimination, there was direct evidence that Ms Khan's sex as a woman played a part in the decision to dismiss.

'Cousin Shakeel did not want to work with a Muslim woman who did not cover her hair.

'The covering is an expression of female modesty.

'He would have treated any male employee more favourably by working with him, all other things being equal.

'Accordingly we found that the discrimination was equally on the ground of the claimant's sex.'

The tribunal concluded: 'Our impression of Ms Khan was of an articulate young woman who genuinely needed a job and would not have behaved in the way described by Mr Ghafoor.'

Mr Ghafoor was cleared of race discrimination as the tribunal ruled he would have treated black or white female converts the same as he treated Ms Khan.

London Tube Driver Planned Terror Mission 'for Allah'...

Amir Ali, who worked on the Bakerloo line, allegedly planned to travel to Pakistan or Afghanistan to join the Taliban.

When his home was raided, police found recordings of lectures by a radical Islamic preacher convicted of soliciting murder, the jury was told.

They also discovered the note to his wife, daughter, four, and three-year-old son.

‘He asked for his wife’s forgiveness and that he would see her soon in this life or the thereafter,’ said prosecutor Duncan Penny.

Ali is accused of booking a flight to Pakistan with the aim of joining the holy war there or across the border in Afghanistan.

The 28-year-old, a Tube driver for five years, paid £555 for the flight from Heathrow to Islamabad, it was alleged.

He was also said to have bought supplies, including a self-inflating pillow, a sleeping bag and a pair of waterproof trousers.

Photos of Ali posing with AK-47 rifles and a pistol were found at his Ilford home, Snaresbrook crown court heard.

Police also found documents advocating religious violence and tapes of lectures by Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal, who was found guilty of soliciting murder in 2003. In his note, Ali told his wife not to be upset with him for not being there.

Mr Penny added: ‘He told her to tell the children that he loved them very much but that he had to go for the sake of Allah because Allah and his prophet Mohammed came first.’ Ali denies one charge of preparation for acts of terrorism. The case continues.

How comfortable must Londoners be with the fact that people like this are allowed access to the strategic transport infrastructure of one of the world’s pre-eminent cities?

Are Transport For London carrying out background checks for applicants for (highly sought-after and very well-rewarded) London Underground train driver postions?

If not, the next time one of them gets that Sudden Jihad feeling, it might not be Afghanistan that’s on the destination board.