(National-UAE) The head of a Qatari charity that founded a website instructing Muslims to hate Jews and Christians is behind more than £28.2 million (Dh131.4 m) in donations given to a UK benevolent fund.
Some of the money has recently been given to a group with links to hate preacher Yusuf Al Qaradawi, who is banned in the UK and is believed to be the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. Millions have also been used to build a mosque whose trustee is a former president of the Muslim Brotherhood’s European arm.
The Muslim Brotherhood, which began in Egypt in 1928, has been outlawed in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE and is shortly due to be added to the US’s list of banned organisations.
The organisation is not banned in the UK but a 2015 report for the British government made a series of damning assessments of its activities in the country.
