{"id":8177,"date":"2015-02-25T14:10:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T14:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/02\/25\/charities-reveal-extremism\/"},"modified":"2015-02-25T14:10:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T14:10:55","slug":"charities-reveal-extremism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/25\/charities-reveal-extremism\/","title":{"rendered":"Charities Reveal Extremism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ITV Documentary Reveals Extremist Views in Three Registered Charities<\/h3>\n

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\nThe Exposure programme followed three charity organisations in a year-long investigation, the charities were: The Steadfast Trust, Global Aid Trust and Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh UK. <\/p>\n


\nThe Steadfast Trust describe themselves on their website as, \u201cthe first and only registered charity which undertakes work specifically for the English community.\u201d However secret filming revealed a non-charity event attended by a trustee of the charity and its supporters showing people shouting \u201cwhite power\u201d and \u201cvictory to the Aryan Race\u201d.<\/p>\n


\nMeanwhile the Global Aid Trust were filmed on a charity boat trip where preacher, Dawah Man, discussed jihad in Syria being an option after having given an alleged anti-semitic speech. The organisation says its primary aim is \u201cto promote education amongst the underprivileged.\u201d An employee of the charity called Shafiq was heard saying he admired US-born hate preacher Anwar al-Awlaki. <\/p>\n


\nIn a later interview Dawah Man denied his speech was antisemitic, saying he had been criticising Zionism as a political ideology, not Israeli or Jewish people. He also denied encouraging people to go on jihad in Syria, claiming he had told people not to go there in his previous videos and that jihad does not always mean fighting.<\/p>\n


\nHindu Swayamsevak Sangh UK (HSS) run as a voluntary organisation with weekly youth leadership training centres across the nation. Undercover filming revealed someone teaching children as young as 13 that the number of good Muslims \u201ccan be counted on fingers.\u201d The same tutor at the camp was seen telling children, \u201cTo destroy Hindu history is the secret conspiracy of the Christians,\u201d and \u201cIf it comes to Islam, they are the world\u2019s worst religion.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe charity has since told Exposure that portraying it as \u201canti any religion\u201d is \u201cwrong and counterproductive to the positive work HSS has done in building interfaith relations.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nAll three organisations have released statements following the broadcast, <\/p>\n


\nThe Steadfast Trust said:<\/p>\n

The Trust does not share or support the offensive views expressed, some by people unknown to the charity. <\/p>\n


\nWe cannot be held responsible for the views, actions or political affiliations of our supporters. <\/p>\n


\nWe always work within charity law and all donations are used to further our registered objectives. Tim Hawke attended the event to identify whether it could benefit from a grant, he disliked what he saw and told trustees he would not attend in future.<\/em><\/p>\n


\nGlobal Aid Trust said:


\nWe express our great regret at these incidents, which were the result of a process failure in the organisation.<\/p>\n


\nGAT no longer employs Mr Shabbar. He was a temporary worker.<\/p>\n


\nMr Shabbar indicated no extremist tendencies during his job interview, and the remit of his role was made clear to him.<\/p>\n


\nAs soon as [the boat trip] incident was highlighted to us we made a decision not to book Dawah Man again.<\/em><\/p>\n


\nHindu Swayamsevak Sangh UK (HSS) stated: <\/p>\n

We promote Hindu values which are about cohesiveness, duty to society and universal peace.<\/p>\n


\nOur actions over the years show that HSS promotes diversity and unity in Britain.<\/p>\n


\nWe are investigating these alleged comments to ensure those who made them are better informed, trained or prevented from making statements which may be interpreted as anti another community.<\/em><\/p>\n


\nThe Charity Commission have responded saying the footage was \u201cabsolutely shocking\u201d however said, \u201cWe don\u2019t have a power to shut down an ineffective or a troubling charity in that way\u201d.<\/p>\n


\nSince filming they say they are investigating the serious concerns raised by Exposure about Global Aid Trust and HSS (UK), and that they have removed The Steadfast Trust from the Register of Charities. \n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ITV Documentary Reveals Extremist Views in Three Registered Charities The Exposure programme followed three charity organisations in a year-long investigation, the charities were: The Steadfast Trust, Global Aid Trust and Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh UK. The Steadfast Trust describe themselves on their website as, \u201cthe first and only registered charity which undertakes work specifically […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}