Islamic Forum of Europe

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The '''Islamic Forum of Europe''' ('''IFE''') was an Islamist organisation based in the United Kingdom with branches in various countries across Europe.<ref name=IFE>[http://www.islamicforumeurope.com/live/ife.php?doc=intro Responding to the call] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220053414/http://islamicforumeurope.com/live/ife.php?doc=intro |date=20 February 2009 }}, IFE website</ref> Its charitable arm was the '''Islamic Forum Trust'''.<ref name="jc1">{{cite news |last=Bright |first=Martin |date=11 July 2011 |title=London Citizens stand by their man |url=http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/51985/london-citizens-stand-their-man |newspaper=The Jewish Chronicle |location=London |access-date=31 January 2015 }}</ref><ref name="oldham1">{{cite news |last=Doherty |first=Karen |date=4 March 2010 |title=TV show got it wrong, say Oldham muslims |url=http://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news-features/8/news/37686/tv-show-got-it-wrong-say-oldham-muslims |newspaper=Oldham Chronicle |access-date=8 February 2015 }}</ref> Founded by the members of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, it is headquartered in Tower Hamlets, London.

Its youth wing is known as Young Muslim Organisation (YMO),<ref name=bangladeshi>{{cite web|url=http://www.surrey.ac.uk/Arts/CRONEM/SOASBangladeshi%20diaspora%20PaperDRAFT-7June2005.pdf |title=Bangladeshi Diaspora in the UK SOAS Conference on Human Rights and Bangladesh |accessdate=2008-06-03 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100923014220/http://www.surrey.ac.uk/Arts/CRONEM/SOASBangladeshi%20diaspora%20PaperDRAFT-7June2005.pdf |archivedate=23 September 2010 }}</ref> and its women's wing is Muslimaat UK.<ref name=IFE/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.islamicforumeurope.com/live/ife.php/ife.php?doc=radio |title=IFE | Muslim Community Radio |accessdate=2015-01-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20150119034002/http://www.islamicforumeurope.com/live/ife.php/ife.php?doc=radio |archivedate=19 January 2015 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> Its London and Sunderland branches are affiliated to the Muslim Council of Britain.<ref>{{cite web|title=National Branches|url=http://www.islamicforumeurope.com/live/ife.php?doc=branches|publisher=IFE|accessdate=8 March 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20140308204255/http://www.islamicforumeurope.com/live/ife.php?doc=branches|archivedate=8 March 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

According to Andrew Gilligan, former adviser of the British Prime Minister and Jim Fitzpatrick, former MP, the Islamic Forum of Europe supported Mayor Lutfur Rahman of achieving part of East London's leadership<ref name=islamists-crushed/><ref name=dispatches>{{cite web |url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/episode-guide/series-54/episode-1 |title=Britain's Islamic Republic |publisher=Channel 4 |date=1 March 2010 |access-date=3 November 2010|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101216063807/http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/episode-guide/series-54/episode-1 |archive-date=16 December 2010}}</ref><ref name=channe4-transcript>{{cite web|last=Gilligan |first=Andrew |author-link=Andrew Gilligan |url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewgilligan/100028128/fundamentalist-infiltration-of-the-labour-party-look-what-the-council-leader-refuses-to-deny/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100306181605/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewgilligan/100028128/fundamentalist-infiltration-of-the-labour-party-look-what-the-council-leader-refuses-to-deny/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=6 March 2010 |title=Transcript of Channel 4 interview with Lutfur Rahman |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=2 March 2010 |access-date=15 November 2010}}</ref> and infiltrated the local government and the Labour Party.<ref name=islamists-crushed/>

IFE was described by The Daily Telegraph as a sophisticated political group with a structured rank system and hardline goals. It has been also alleged that, during the Aspire Party's control of Tower Hamlets, millions of pounds of public money were paid to organisations run by the Islamic Forum of Europe, and that the results included stocks of Islamist literature being made available in public libraries.<ref name=SunTel>{{cite web|last=Gilligan |first=Andrew |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8068839/PICS-AND-PUBLISH-Tower-Hamlets-extremist-vote-poses-Eds-first-big-election-test.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101018183949/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8068839/PICS-AND-PUBLISH-Tower-Hamlets-extremist-vote-poses-Eds-first-big-election-test.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 October 2010 |title=Tower Hamlets extremist vote poses Ed Miliband's first big election test |publisher=Sunday Telegraph |date=17 October 2010 |access-date=2010-10-18}}</ref>

==History== IFE was founded in 1988 as a British Bangladeshi professional group. Its first president was Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari who later became chairman of the East London Mosque,<ref name="gilligan">Andrew Gilligan, [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/7333487/Inextricably-linked-to-controversial-mosque-the-secret-world-of-IFE.html Inextricably linked to controversial mosque: the secret world of IFE], ''Daily Telegraph'', 28 February 2010</ref> succeeded by Musleh Faradhi as President since 2005.<ref>[http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/call-for-ban-on-bomb-ireland-extremist-25956261.html Call for ban on 'bomb Ireland' extremist]| Tom Brady, ''Irish Independent'', 24 November 2012</ref> It was supported by Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, who stands accused of at least 18 murders as well as war crimes in his native Bangladesh, although he contests the allegations.<ref name="DT3">{{cite news|last=Gilligan|first=Andrew|date=15 April 2012|title=Leading British Muslim leader faces war crimes charges in Bangladesh|newspaper=Daily Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/bangladesh/9204831/Leading-British-Muslim-leader-faces-war-crimes-charges-in-Bangladesh.html|accessdate=6 July 2014}}</ref>

It was reportedly founded by former members of the Jamaat-e-Islami, with whom it came into conflict over management of the East London Mosque "throughout the late 1980s"<ref>Husain, Ed, ''The Islamist'', Penguin, 2007, p.24-5, 166</ref> resulting in "two High Court injunctions" in 1990 in "response to violence" at the mosque.<ref>Husain, Ed, ''The Islamist'', Penguin, 2007, p.279</ref> Dawat'ul Islam is now based at another mosque, Jamiatul Ummah Bigland Street.<ref name=bangladeshi/>

Abdullah Faliq is the Deputy Secretary-General, who also help set up the Cordoba Foundation.<ref name="cord1">{{cite journal |last1=Altikriti |first1=Anas |authorlink=Anas Altikriti |last2=Faliq |first2=Abdullah |date=Winter 2010 |title=ISLAMOPHOBIA AND ANTI-MUSLIM HATRED: CAUSES & REMEDIES |url=http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/private/ARCHES_FINAL_2010_2.pdf |publisher=The Cordoba Foundation |volume=4 |issue=7 |page=7 |access-date=27 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160119112549/http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/private/ARCHES_FINAL_2010_2.pdf |archivedate=19 January 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

An event held by the IFE, hosted Anwar al-Awlaki as a speaker.<ref name=dtdg>{{cite news|last=Gardham |first=Duncan |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/8113977/Al-Qaeda-leaders-tour-of-Britain-revealed.html |title=Al-Qaeda leader's tour of Britain revealed |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=November 5, 2010 |accessdate=November 11, 2010 |location=London| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20101108025747/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/8113977/Al-Qaeda-leaders-tour-of-Britain-revealed.html| archivedate=8 November 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref>

It has also worked with the street protest group ''United East End'' that opposes the English Defence League (EDL) and part of the ''Enough Coalition'', an umbrella group which aims to tackle anti-Muslim hatred, and that includes organisations such as the Stop the War Coalition, British Muslim Initiative, Federation of Student Islamic Societies, Unite Against Fascism and the East London Mosque.<ref name="ac2013" /><ref name="ife1">{{cite web |url=http://www.islamicforumeurope.com/live/ife.php?doc=eventitem&itemId=186 |title=Islamophobia OFF our campuses! |date=October 2014 |publisher=Islamic Forum of Europe |accessdate=31 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20150131182814/http://www.islamicforumeurope.com/live/ife.php?doc=eventitem&itemId=186 |archivedate=31 January 2015 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

Muhammad Rabbani, a former senior activist at IFE, went on to become managing director of Cageprisoners and worked at the Osmani Trust. While at IFE, in 2009 he told recruits that:<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11442602/Cage-the-extremists-peddling-lies-to-British-Muslims-to-turn-them-into-supporters-of-terror.html telegraph.co.uk: "Cage: the extremists peddling lies to British Muslims to turn them into supporters of terror"], 28 February 2015</ref> {{quote|Our goal is to create the True Believer, [and] to then mobilise these believers into an organised force for change who will carry out dawah [preaching], hisbah [accountability] and jihaad [striving to establish a community]. This will lead to social change and Iqamat-ud-Deen [an Islamic social and political order].}}

==Islamic Forum Trust== The IFT has donated £16,119 to the Staffordshire Muslim Centre charity,<ref name="ac2013">{{cite web |url=http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends50%5C0001121050_AC_20130331_E_C.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150607164027/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends50%5C0001121050_AC_20130331_E_C.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 June 2015 |title=Islamic Forum Trust Financial Statements Year Ended 31 March 2013 |website=Charity Commission |publisher=Islamic Forum Trust |pages=1, 9 |accessdate=31 January 2015 }}</ref> and £257,847 to the Luton Islamic Community Forum (LIFC).<ref name="ac2012">{{cite web |url=http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends50%5C0001121050_AC_20120331_E_C.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150607163925/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends50%5C0001121050_AC_20120331_E_C.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 June 2015 |title=Islamic Forum Trust Financial Statements Year Ended 31 March 2012 |website=Charity Commission |publisher=Islamic Forum Trust |pages=1, 10 |accessdate=31 January 2015 }}</ref>

It owns properties that it rents out for private hire to other organisations, one of which is in Lozells, Birmingham,<ref name="ac2011">{{cite web |url=http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends50%5C0001121050_AC_20120331_E_C.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150607163925/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends50%5C0001121050_AC_20120331_E_C.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 June 2015 |title=Islamic Forum Trust Financial Statements Year Ended 31 March 2011 |website=Charity Commission |publisher=Islamic Forum Trust |pages=1, 2 |accessdate=31 January 2015 }}</ref> it also owns the Union, Berners Street, Lozells in Birmingham.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/empty_vacant_properties|title=Empty / vacant properties - a Freedom of Information request to Birmingham City Council|date=3 March 2012|website=WhatDoTheyKnow}}</ref>

It also set up the Oldham Muslim Centre (OMC) branch at a cost of £2.2m which opened in April 2010. Vice chairman of the project Syed Badrul Alam, and Central President of the IFE Mohammad Habibur Rahman were at the opening.<ref name="oldham1" /><ref name="man1">{{cite news |date=18 April 2010 |title=Muslim centre will be 'open to all' |url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/muslim-centre-will-be-open-to-all-944141 |newspaper=Manchester Evening News |access-date=8 February 2015 }}</ref><ref name="man2">{{cite news |date=19 April 2010 |title=Community welcomes Oldham Muslim Centre |url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/community-welcomes-oldham-muslim-centre-947208 |newspaper=Manchester Evening News |access-date=8 February 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/vacant_commercial_property_with_120|title=Vacant commercial property with a rateable value over £40,000 - a Freedom of Information request to Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council|date=27 April 2011|website=WhatDoTheyKnow}}</ref> The trust also owns 120-122 Chadderton Way, also in Oldham.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/details_of_empty_commercial_prop_170|title=Details of Empty Commercial Properties - a Freedom of Information request to Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council|date=8 May 2009|website=WhatDoTheyKnow}}</ref>

==Politics== The group in 2006 was described as part of a movement of Bangladeshi immigrants in London away from secular left politics towards Islamist politics.<ref name=delwar>Delwar Hussain, "[http://www.opendemocracy.net/content/articles/PDF/3715.pdf Bangladeshis in East London: from secular politics to Islam] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120412204104/http://www.opendemocracy.net/content/articles/PDF/3715.pdf |date=12 April 2012 }}", openDemocracy, 7 July 2006</ref>

IFE is also reported as the group which runs the East London Mosque, which is located close to its offices.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/sep/06/east-london-mosque-edl-march theguardian.com: "East London mosque awaits EDL march with fear and frustration"], 6 September 2013</ref><ref>Roel Meijer, Edwin Bakker. ''The Muslim Brotherhood in Europe.'' Columbia University Press, 2012.</ref> IFE and the mosque have hosted many notable persons and religious leaders including Prince Charles,<ref name="charles">[https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/1671797.stm bbc.co.uk: "Prince joins Ramadan ceremony"], 23 November 2001</ref> Abdullah Ahmad Badawi,<ref name="badawi">[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014122333/http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=%2F2004%2F7%2F24%2Fnation%2F8514775&sec=nation British Prime Minister Blair praises Malaysia] The Star, 24 July 2004</ref> Fiona MacTaggart,<ref>[https://www.dawn.com/news/361570/makkah-imam-leads-prayers-in-london Makkah imam leads prayers in London] DAWN.com</ref> Brendan Barber,<ref>[https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4177116.stm TUC wants Muslim 'poverty' ended] BBC</ref> Dr Yasir Qadhi, Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, Saud Al-Shuraim, Salah Al Budair, Bakir Izetbegović, Jamal Badawi, Allama Delwar Hossain Sayeedi and many others.<ref>[http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2009080746030 Al-Sudais launches second expansion of London mosque] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120913145019/http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2009080746030 |date=13 September 2012 }} Saudi Gazette. Retrieved on 13 September 2010.</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7728272/Radical-Muslims-lose-grip-on-London-council.html |title= Radical Muslims lose grip on London council| author= Andrew Gilligan |date= 16 May 2010|work=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref>

Farming minister Jim Fitzpatrick reprimanded the organisation for sex segregation policies at the mosque after attending an Islamic wedding held at the venue which strictly seated men and women separately.<ref>Liz Stephens, [http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2009/8/14/jim-fitzpatrick-walks-out-of-muslim-wedding Jim Fitzpatrick walks out of Muslim wedding], 14 August 2009, politics.co.uk</ref>

A ''Dispatches'' documentary aired on 1 March 2010 suggested the IFE are an extremist organization with a hidden agenda that went against Britain's democratic values.<ref>Andrew Gilligan, [https://web.archive.org/web/20100315151035/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7437197/Backlash-at-the-mosque.html Backlash at the mosque], ''Daily Telegraph'', 13 March 2010</ref> ''Dispatches'' quoted Azad Ali, the IFE's community affairs coordinator, as saying, "Democracy, if it means at the expense of not implementing the sharia, of course no one agrees with that".<ref>Andrew Gilligan, "[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2010/mar/04/islamic-forum-europe-dispatches-gilligan IFE: not harmless democrats]", ''The Guardian'', 4 March 2010</ref><ref>{{cite news|title='Britain's Islamic republic': full transcript of Channel 4 Dispatches programme on Lutfur Rahman, the IFE and Tower Hamlets|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewgilligan/100060409/britains-islamic-republic-full-transcript-of-channel-4-dispatches-programme-on-lutfur-rahman-the-ife-and-tower-hamlets-the-full-transcript/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101024163414/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewgilligan/100060409/britains-islamic-republic-full-transcript-of-channel-4-dispatches-programme-on-lutfur-rahman-the-ife-and-tower-hamlets-the-full-transcript/|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 October 2010|newspaper=Daily Telegraph|accessdate=26 March 2014|author=Andrew Gilligan|date=22 October 2010|location=London}}</ref>

Ali's controversial blog ''Between the Lines'' was hosted by the IFE.<ref name="es1">{{cite news |last=Gilligan |first=Andrew | date=12 March 2009 |title=Mayor gives £30,000 of taxpayers' money to Muslim group led by 'extremist' |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/mayor-gives-30000-of-taxpayers-money-to-muslim-group-led-by-extremist-6938333.html |newspaper= London Evening Standard |accessdate=21 February 2015}}</ref><ref name="pg1">{{cite news|last=Luft |first=Oliver |date=28 January 2010 |title='Kill British' blog man fails in MoS libel bid |url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/44965 |newspaper=Press Gazette |accessdate=21 February 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221163746/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/44965 |archivedate=21 February 2015 }}</ref>

In a comment piece in ''The Guardian'' newspaper, Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain suggested that many of the people interviewed on the programme had hidden agendas of their own and noted that Jim Fitzpatrick, who suggested the Labour Party had been infiltrated by IFE members, was to be challenged for his seat by George Galloway in the forthcoming general election who had overturned a 10,000+ majority held by Oona King at the 2005 election.<ref>Inayat Bunglawala, "[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2010/mar/03/dispatches-islamic-forum-europe Watch out: democratic Muslims about]", ''The Guardian'', 3 March 2010</ref>

Galloway was recorded as saying that his 2005 election owed "more than I can say, more than it would be wise for me to say, to the Islamic Forum of Europe."<ref>Andrew Gilligan, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20100919183925/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewgilligan/100053853/lutfur-rahman-yet-more-backers-he-really-shouldnt-want/ Lutfur Rahman: yet more backers he really shouldn't want]", ''Daily Telegraph'', 16 September 2010</ref> Responding to the ''Dispatches'' programme, Galloway denounced it as a smear, credited the IFE only as one of several groups that helped his anti-war campaign, and claimed to know little about the IFE's membership or policies.<ref>George Galloway, {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20100304174437/http://www.socialistunity.com/?p=5338 Galloway's Rebuke to Dispatches Programme]}}. Socialist Unity. 1 March 2010</ref>

The programme also claimed that the IFE also helped Lutfur Rahman to gain the leadership of Tower Hamlets Council from 2008 until 2010. Six unknown Labour councillors told ''Dispatches'' that a senior IFE official had threatened to mobilise the group's supporters against them if they did not support the candidate. IFE in a response to the programme stated that the programme "Presented a grossly inaccurate and misleading picture of the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE). The programme failed to broadcast IFE’s responses to many of the allegations and therefore failed in its basic obligation of fair, honest and balanced reporting."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.islamicforumeurope.com/images_uploaded/2010/03/img3195.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-02-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713062139/http://www.islamicforumeurope.com/images_uploaded/2010/03/img3195.pdf |archivedate=13 July 2011 |df=dmy-all }}. Islamic Forum Europe.</ref>

The IFE and Young Muslim Organisation were featured in the book ''The Islamist'' by Ed Husain, where he explains that the Young Muslim Organisation attracts mainly English-speaking Asian youths, providing circles or talks daily at the East London Mosque; while teaching about Islam, it covers the political system of the religion.<ref>''The Islamist'', pp. 52-60.</ref>

In February 2010, ''The Daily Telegraph'' described the group as "a sophisticated political group with a structured rank system and hardline goals. Prospective recruits must attend training. One undercover reporter was told that she would have to take an exam and swear an oath of allegiance and ordered to keep her membership of the IFE a secret."<ref name=gilligan/> Robert Lambert, at the time co-director of the University of Exeter's European Muslim Research Centre, criticized the accusations, maintaining that youth workers from the Islamic Forum of Europe were actively working to oppose the influence of extremist groups such as Al Qaeda and Al Muhajiroun: "the brave Muslims involved have received no praise for their outstanding bravery and good citizenship, and instead faced a never ending barrage of denigration."

==See also== *Azad Ali, spokesman for Islamic Forum of Europe

==References== {{reflist|2}}

==External links== *{{official website|http://www.islamicforumeurope.com/live/ife.php}} {{East London Mosque}}

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