Islamic extremist groups receiving hundreds of thousands from UK donors

From the Herald Scotland

Islamist extremist organisations are receiving hundreds of thousands of pounds a year, mainly made up of small, anonymous public donations from UK-based individuals, a long-awaited Government report has found. Home Secretary Amber Rudd said she had decided against publishing the report in full for reasons of national security and because of the volume of personal information it contains.

She said the “most common source of support for Islamist extremist organisations in the UK is from small, anonymous public donations, with the majority of these donations most likely coming from UK-based individuals” “In some cases these organisations receive hundreds of thousands of pounds a year,” she added. “This is the main source of their income.”

The Home Office review into the nature, scale and origin of the funding of Islamist extremist activity in the UK also looked at overseas sources. It found that for a small number of organisations with which there are extremism concerns, overseas funding is a “significant source of income”.

Ms Rudd said the review “gives us the best picture we have ever had of how extremists operating in the UK sustain their activities”.

Other findings include that some Islamic organisations of concern are posing as charities to increase their credibility and to take advantage of Islam’s emphasis on charity. Some of these are deliberately vague about their activities and their charitable status.

Overseas support has allowed individuals to study at institutions that teach “deeply conservative forms of Islam”, the report found. Overseas support also provides “highly socially conservative literature and preachers” to the UK’s Islamic institutions and some of these individuals have since become of extremist concern.

Ms Rudd said the Government would be directly raising issues of concern with “specific countries as part of our wider international engagement on countering extremism and violent extremism”.

She said no single measure will tackle all the issues raised in the review and a comprehensive approach focused particularly on domestic sources of support for all forms of extremism is needed.

The Government will also work with the Charity Commission to address the abuse of charities for terrorist or extremist purposes.

The Charity Commission will be introducing a requirement on charities to declare overseas funding sources, Ms Rudd added. I wonder how much certain left-wing organisations receive directly or indirectly from George Soros?