Source: expressandstar.com

‘I love my country,’ Muhammad Yaseen Khan says.

Muslim faith leader Muhammad Yaseen Khan, from Wolverhampton, with his son, Haroon

It upsets the president of the Wolverhampton Ahmadiyya Muslim Association that there are people who have the same religious beliefs as he does but who commit murder in its name.

And he feels he has to make it absolutely clear the sense of patriotism he feels towards the United Kingdom, given that a small number of people of the same religion hold it in contempt.

Now the 64 year old is calling on the Home Office to monitor mosques more closely to stamp out radicalisation and hatred as police are working to prevent more young people, particularly girls, from wanting to go to Syria and join extremists in the so-called Islamic State (Isis)

Mr Khan also says what some white British people are afraid to for fear of being labelled racist, namely that Britain has been too open on immigration and has been abused as a result.

“There are preachers of hate, mullahs I call them, who have been let into Britain and allowed to stay without proper scrutiny,” Mr Khan says.

“They are poisoning the minds of young people with their teachings.

“Sometimes it will be in mosques. But it is also on the internet as well. Their parents have a responsibility to check what it is they are doing online.”

The Pakistan-born former solicitor has… read more at expressandstar.com