UK Government gave more than £500,000 to controversial Islamic group

DCLG gave more than £500,000 to controversial Islamic group The Government gave more than half a million pounds of taxpayers' cash to a controversial Islamic group, it has been revealed. The Department of Communities and Local Government handed the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) and related groups £550,985 over three years. In March 2009 the Government suspended links with the MCB and demanded one of its leaders should be sacked for allegedly supporting violence against Israel. In a written Parliamentary answer tonight, the coalition detailed its grants to the MCB and linked organisations. It said £174,000 was given to improve...