Amazon is funding an 'extremist' charity whose founder supports child marriage and stoning people to death as punishment for adultery, it emerged last night. Under its charitable scheme Amazon Smile, the tech giant donates a percentage of customers' money to the Muslim Research and Development Foundation (MRDF) – described as 'the main Salafist organisation in the UK'. Despite this, the charity has become one of 6,000 – including the British Red Cross, Barnardo's and Cancer Research UK – to join the Amazon Smile programme, which was launched in the UK in November last year. On child marriage, he said: 'The earlier the better, especially for girls, but you have to be careful of the legal issues.' A spokesperson for Amazon told MailOnline:'We rely on the Charity Commission, the official charity regulator in England and Wales, to determine which organisations are eligible to participate.

Source: Daily Mail October 08, 2018 01:07 UTC