By AFPMore by this AuthorLONDON, TuesdayForeign funding for Islamist extremism in Britain mostly originates from Saudi Arabia, a think-tank report said on Wednesday in claims that were branded as "categorically false" by the Saudi embassy. According to the hawkish London-based foreign policy think-tank, Saudi Arabia has since the 1960s "sponsored a multimillion dollar effort to export Wahhabi Islam across the Islamic world, including Muslim communities in the West". The report also flagged that some of Britain's most serious Islamist hate preachers have "studied in Saudi Arabia as part of scholarship programmes". FOREIGN FUNDINGThe Henry Jackson Society called for the creation of new laws requiring mosques and other Islamic institutions to declare foreign funding. It also demanded the launch of a public inquiry into foreign funding of extremism, putting pressure on the government which has so far refused to publish its own report into foreign funding of terrorism.

Source: Daily Nation July 05, 2017 14:37 UTC