Saudi Arabia blamed for funding extremism in UK

and government-linked organisations in Saudi Arabia, Iran and other Gulf countries are allegedly responsible for providing funding for Islamist extremism in the UK, according to a London-based think-tank.

The Henry Jackson Society’s report titled ‘Foreign Funded Islamist Extremism in the UK’, mentions “India’s intelligence agencies reporting that between 2011- 2013, Saudi Arabia sent $250 million, as well as thousands of clerics, to India for the purpose of establishing Wahhabi mosques and seminaries”.

Calling for a public inquiry into such funding, the report released on Wednesday said that since the 1960s, Saudi Arabia had allegedly sponsored a multi-million dollar effort to export Wahhabi Islam across the Islamic world, including to Muslim communities in the West. “In the UK, this funding has primarily taken the form of endowments to mosques and Islamic educational institutions, which have apparently, in turn, played host to Islamist extremist preachers and the distribution of extremist literature”. PRASUN SONWALKAR Mexico

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