A charity accused of acting as the Iranian regime’s arm in London has been given the green light to bring workers into Britain. The Mail has the story:
The Islamic Centre of England in Maida Vale appears on a Home Office list of organisations with approval to sponsor skilled worker visas.
Licensed visa sponsors have been officially vetted and approved by the Home Office to hire non-UK citizens.
The centre remains on the list despite claims it has been involved in spreading pro-Tehran propaganda and has successfully issued a number of certificates of sponsorship – documents required for migrant workers applying to enter Britain.
It is currently under investigation by the Charity Commission over alleged ties to Tehran.
The charity was reported to the watchdog earlier this year for hosting a ‘community bazaar’ where stalls sold pro-Tehran key rings and Hezbollah-themed phone cases.
Other stalls sold stickers featuring the silhouette of General Qassim Soleimani, former head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). When Soleimani was killed in an American air strike in 2020, the centre hosted a candlelit vigil.
Shadow National Security minister Alicia Kearns called for the centre to be immediately removed from the list.
“This is a bona-fide backdoor into the UK for Iranian agents,” she said.
“For years I’ve worked to get the Islamic Centre of England, an indoctrination hub, shut down.”
Kasra Aarabi, Director of Research on the IRGC at United Against Nuclear Iran, a non-profit organisation, called its inclusion on the Home Office list “truly appalling”.
He added: “This is no ordinary mosque or charity. It operates as the UK office of the Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader. The situation is far worse than has been reported.” …
A string of Islamic bookshops flogging antisemitic texts also appear on the visa list.
Some of the books being sold offer outrageous claims, such as one saying that Jewish people have a “wicked nature”, while other texts have been labelled as a radicalisation threat by our prisons.
One of those on sale is Milestones by Sayyid Qutb, an influential former Muslim Brotherhood leader who believed Islam should govern every aspect of society.
His work also denounces “world Jewry”.
Other texts include those by Hasan al-Banna, the Brotherhood’s founder, and Bilal Philips, a cleric banned by the Home Office, who offered advice on beating wives.
The books sold by these businesses are not illegal in the UK and in some cases are sold through a number of mainstream platforms. …
Skilled worker visa certificates were introduced in 2020 as part of a post-Brexit immigration overhaul.
The scheme, overseen by the Home Office, allowed registered employers to bring workers into the country to fill jobs meeting a specific skill level.
Businesses such as vape shops and newsagents are among those to have been given licences, drawing questions over whether all those brought over are truly “skilled”.
Dozens of official certificates of sponsorship, the paperwork needed to apply for a skilled worker visa, have been issued by Islamic bookshops.
Home Office figures show that one of those stores, in Birmingham, has issued up to 16 skilled worker certificates since 2021.
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So was The Islamic Centre of England formed after the last General Election. If not why did the Tories not ban it.
Who first gave it permission to import jihadists (oh, I mean brain surgeons); shouldn’t the Home Office supervise that?
Take a look at the ethnic composition of Home Office senior staff.
Are there any organisations run by Muslims that are approved to sponsor skilled workers who aren’t abusing the system?
Successive governments have allowed repeated mickey taking it must be obvious to anyone with more than 2 brain cells to rub together that vape shops don’t need skilled workers, a small takeaway doesn’t need 16 workers skilled or otherwise, etc but it’s no surprise woke civil servants are happy to approve any Muslim organisation that applies.
Being generous I’d say it’s just incompetence/laziness on the part of Ministers not having any real oversight of or control over civil servants working for them. Some people will say Ministers know what’s going on and are happy with it is as part of The Great Replacement.
I know it sounds a bit mad but lately I’ve been wondering if tons of establishment figures are secretly Muslim. I mean, if they were Muslims then all of this makes sense.
What kind of “skilled workers” can they possibly need?
Probably skilled using knives.