| has gloss | eng: Islamic Forum Europe is an Islamist organisation based in London with at least two branches in the United Kingdom. Its website states it has branches in "most of the European countries including: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland". Its youth wing is called Young Muslim Organisation (YMO), "an organisation based in Tower Hamlets" in London, "with several branches across Britain," and is very active among the Bangladeshi community. The YMO was established mainly by Bangladeshi youths in East London during the period of racial attacks in Tower Hamlets in 1978. Its women's wing is Muslimaat UK. In a comment piece in the Guardian newspaper, Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain, suggested that many of the people interviewed on the programme had hidden agendas of their own and highlighted that Jim Fitzpatrick, who suggested the labour party had been infiltrated by IFE members, was up against George Galloway in the upcoming elections who had overturned a 10,000+ majority held by Oona King at the last general election. |
