The leadership of Britain’s biggest Muslim charity will resign en masse today after The Times discovered that it replaced a disgraced trustee with a man who labelled terrorists “heroes” and described Israel as the Zionist enemy.
Social media posts by a director of Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) also glorified terrorist attacks on Israel and showed the former American president Barack Obama in clothing branded with the Star of David.
It is the second time in a month that the global aid organisation has faced scrutiny over incendiary comments by a trustee. The posts, in Arabic, were uncovered by a leading academic on Islamism in the West, Lorenzo Vidino.
The charity, based in Birmingham, acknowledged last night that the Facebook posts were “inappropriate and unacceptable”. Its
