By Wayne Lee
Saudi Arabia has been accused of being the chief foreign promoter of Islamic extremism in the UK, a new shocking report claims. The Henry Jackson Society claim there was a “clear and growing link” between Islamist organisations in receipt of overseas funds, hate preachers and Jihadist groups promoting violence.
The UK’s Saudi Arabian embassy have rubbished the claims as “categorically false”. High pressure is now being put on ministers to publish a report clarifying the information they have on terrorist networks.
There is suspicion in some quarters that a home office report into the existence and influence of Jihadist organisations commissioned by former prime minister, David Cameron in 2015 is being swept under the carpet.
Some believe that the government’s economic and security links with Saudi Arabia makes it difficult for any full report that may suggest terrorist links.
SAUDI ARABIA TRIP
The strong allegation comes as UK prime minister, Theresa May, has set out on a trip to Jordan, after which she will visit Saudi Arabia to discuss humanitarian aid. May has attempted to justify relations with Saudia Arabia, saying the UK has long term security and historical relationship with Jordan and Saudia Arabia, both being important in terms of security, defense, and trade .
”Gulf security is our security and gulf prosperity is our prosperity”, the prime minister said. All well said, but gulf terrorism funding cannot be our terrorism funding, neither can their sexism or discrimination against women be ours.
The scary report released today, Wednesday, suggests that a number of Gulf nations like Iran and Saudi Arabia, are providing financial support to mosques and Islamic educational institutions linked to the propagation of extremist material.With Saudi Arabia high on the list, our only hope is that there is some deep fundamental error in the report.
SAUDI ARABIA EMBASSY CONDEMN REPORT
The Saudi embassy has condemned the report as ”baseless and lacking in credible evidence, claiming that Saudia Arabia has been itself fallen victim to terrorism on numerous occasions by Al Quaeda and Islamic State. This claim is true, but does not by itself refute the claim that