UK Government Department Seeks to Recruit Terrorist Supporting Students

The article says it is a failing of the civil service: looks more like a deliberate drive to recruit the islamists of FOSIS , the mozlem students association.

Civil Service Fast Stream was due to hold a skills workship next Tuesday in association with FOSIS for people interested in applying.
Of the 26 people who said earlier this week that they were interested in attending, eight had Facebook avatars supporting Babar Ahmad, an alleged Al Qaeda operative who Ministers want to extradite to the United States.  The Cabinet Office have overall responsibility for the civil service and was thus responsible for the event.
I hear that Theresa May was furious when she found out about it, and that soon after she heard the news it was cancelled forthwith.  But it isn’t necessary to believe that Ahmad should be extradited - the case is controversial – to ask: what on earth was going on?  How can one part of government be seeking to recruit from a body about which another part has grave concerns?

Here’s the advert:

Hardly “joined up government”.
The Government is correct in its assessment of FOSIS. If anything, it is too generous to it. Over the last three years speakers at its events have included the following:
- Daud Abdullah, the Istanbul declaration signatory and head of hate publisher Middle East Monitor.
- Hamas enthusiast Haitham Al-Haddad. The Gaza war made him happy because “it clearly encouraged Muslims to prepare themselves for jihad, all over the world”.
- Canadian Islamist Muhammad Alshareef, who has said Jews should be hated and shunned. As for gays, Muslims should be “proud” to be called homophobic and need to harass gay rights demonstrators.
- Australian preacher Shady Alsuleiman, a fan of Al Qaeda preacher and recruiter Anwar Al-Awlaki. Alsuleiman calls jihad “the peak of Islam”.
- Moazzam Begg, the Taliban fan who heads the terrorist support group Cageprisoners.
- Abdur Raheem Green, the head of iERA. It is an organisation which specialises in staging extremist conferences, such as this one at the Ibis hotel in southwest London which led to a furore earlier this year. Three of iERA’s foreign advisors have been banned from the UK.
- Uthman Lateef, a gay hating and “don’t help the police” extremist. He appeared at events featuring Anwar Al-Awlaki into 2009, when it was very clear that Awlaki was a leading Al Qaeda operative.
- Creepy Stephen Sizer, the church friend of extremists, including the racists and Hamas supporters of Viva Palestina Malaysia.
- Azzam “Kaboom” Tamimi, the supporter of suicide bombings.

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