An imam who expressed support for an al-Qaeda terror attacker has been given the green light to open a nursery by the education regulator.
Imam Muhammad Asim Hussain urged followers at the Al-Hikam mosque in Bradford to attend an event in 2015 in support of Aafia Siddiqui, who is serving an 86-year prison term in the US for attempting to kill soldiers in a machine gun attack.
In a recorded video, Hussain said the event would highlight the ‘injustice and most importantly the oppression that has been given and meted out to our sister Dr Aafia Siddiqui who is currently in imprisonment’.
David Ibsen, executive director at the Counter Extremism Project, said: ‘Al-Hikam should not be permitted to educate young British citizens in its nursery when there is a track record of espousing objectionable and oppressive beliefs.’
An Ofsted spokesperson said: ‘We have been alerted to these concerns and are looking into them.
‘While we are unable to share information about individual providers, we take safeguarding concerns very seriously and consider all the information we receive.’
Mr Hussain said: ‘The observations and comments which have been made previously have been made with the intention of alerting the Islamic Community to the injustices which are taking place around them.’
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