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Fight breaks out at one of UK’s biggest mosques
LONDON: The Charity Commission is investigating claims of misuse of more than £1m and corruption at one of the UK’s biggest mosques — Hounslow Jamia Masjid & Islamic Centre in West London.
A viral video footage shows worshippers and the mosque management — who are mostly Pakistanis — getting into a brawl inside the mosque — amid accusations of harassment, abuse, intimidation, shoving, punching, and violence.
The dispute started — published in mainstream UK papers — after the former friends and trustees of the mosques fell out with each other and started blaming each other.
Police and an ambulance were called to the scene, the Sun reported.
A trustee of the mosque has resigned his position after 20 years of service — including 10 years as chairman — and a councillor has reported five alleged attacks on his home and car to cops, and begged the council and Labour bigwigs to step in.
In his resignation letter from the mosque, Abdul Majid told how when he ran the Hounslow Jamia Masjid, the bank balance was consistently between £400,000 to £500,000 in credit.
Abdul Majid stated: “Unfortunately, the current financial state of the mosque is a cause for great concern, with the account balance now very low. This, among other matters, has compelled me to conclude that I can no longer continue in this role in good conscience.”
Around £300,000 of charitable donations collected each year at the mosque “do not appear in any official accounts or bank records”. Large collections for the Gaza crisis are “unaccounted for”, he has alleged.
Majid referred to documents in which the firm BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions filed a claim for £150,000 against the mosque’s 11 trustees in a row over a 12-year lease of photocopiers. An out-of-court settlement — “without full board approval or proper discussion” — means the mosque is paying the company £5,000 per month until August 2027.
A lucrative security contract went to a close associate of the mosque’s senior leadership team. Relatives were awarded the contract to supply groceries and meat to the mosque. A series of contracts have been reported without a transparent bidding process, the Charity Commission was told.
It has been suggested that “unqualified” individuals have been appointed to key financial positions. There is a major problem surrounding “familial relationships”, the Charity Commission was told.
The councillor also reached out to Dan Bowring, chair of the Brentford and Isleworth Constituency Labour Party. He called for a formal Labour Party probe into the “conduct of certain individuals within our party who are misusing their official positions and community influence to incite hostility and endanger the safety of elected members.”
The mosque is frequented by up to 4,000 Muslims a day.
A source at the mosque said about the leaked fight footage that some worshippers were banned from the premises after leaders accused them of causing “breach of the peace and public disorder”.
One of the people also banned from the mosque was the councillor. Those expelled were told that returning to the mosque would be viewed as “trespass” and tensions are still understood to be “heightened”.
The Charity Commission, responsible for ensuring the governance, management, and administration of a charity is fit for purpose, said in a statement: “We have opened a regulatory compliance case into Hounslow Jamia Masjid and Islamic Centre to assess concerns regarding the charity’s governance.”
A source at the mosque said: “It’s all about personal animosity. There is no truth to the allegations. The people involved in the dispute used to be best of friends, had joint business and social matters. They fell out and have taken their personal issues to the mosque, making it a big issue. The allegations are baseless and frivolous.”
The mosque source said that they will set out their position very soon and bring facts before the public and the worshippers. He said every allegation of financial corruption is false.
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Dolly Parton risks facing major problems to her health: Insider rings alarm bells
Dolly Parton, beloved country singer and songwriter has sparked fears all around with her decision not to slow down.
For those unversed, the singer is said to be dealing with something an official statement calls “just kidney stones” after her sister Freida led many to grow concerned over her Facebook post about needing ‘prayers’.
But as of right now an insider claims there is another reason her loved ones are fearful.
The reason is “Dolly doesn’t know the meaning of sitting still, she’s doing her best but it’s driving her absolutely batty being confined to bed or pottering around the house and not going full tilt,” they claimed to Heat World.
While “it’s understandable to a degree because her hard wiring means that being a workaholic is second nature,” the insider said, “but the worry is that she’s once again pushing herself without taking the adequate rest.”
So “unless she learns to pace herself, put her phone down and properly turn off , her relentlessness could ultimately lead to a major problem for her health,” they concluded by saying.
Freida Parton’s Statement:
She said, “Last night, I was up all night praying for my sister, Dolly. Many of you know she hasn’t been feeling her best lately. I truly believe in the power of prayer, and I have been lead to ask all of the world that loves her to be prayer warriors and pray with me.”
Right after that post went viral Freida released a clarification that said, “I didn’t mean to scare anyone or make it sound so serious when asking for prayers for Dolly. She’s been a little under the weather, and I simply asked for prayers because I believe so strongly in the power of prayer … Thank you all for lifting her up.”
Dolly Parton’s Statement:
The star revealed that she’s “been dealing with some health challenges, and my doctors tell me that I must have a few procedures”.
However, no details as of yet have been given, the singer only lightheartedly touched on the details when she said, “as I joked with them, it must be time for my 100,000-mile checkup, although it’s not the usual trip to see my plastic surgeon!”
But “in all seriousness,” she said, “given this, I am not going to be able to rehearse and put together the show that I want you to see, and the show that you deserve to see. You pay good money to see me perform, and I want to be at my best for you … I just need a little time to get show ready, as they say.
“And don’t worry about me quittin’ the business because God hasn’t said anything about stopping yet. But, I believe He is telling me to slow down right now so I can be ready for more big adventures with all of you. I love you and thank you for understanding.”
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Pamela Anderson says she’s ‘off the crazy train’ of beauty
Pamela Anderson confessed after foregoing makeup she gained more “freedom” and became more “confident.”
The 58-year-old actress reflected on her journey of natural beauty in a recent chat with People.
“So much more freeing and so much more confidence,” Anderson told the outlet at the New York pop up of her skincare brand, Sonsie.
However, the actress shared that going make-free is a “choice” and for her it came with challenges.
“You do have to work on it. It’s a practice to be confident going out of the house with or without makeup,” the Naked Gun actress added.
Anderson further articulated her thoughts on why she opted to forego makeup, “I just kind of could see something culturally and I thought, ‘I want to jump off the crazy train. I want to be one of the first ones to jump off the crazy train and just peel it back and see what’s going on’.”
“I’ve saved a lot of time,” she quipped.
The Camino Real star was then asked about an advice she want to give her younger self, she noted, “That’s the thing. You look back in hindsight, after having some life experience, you can look back and see yourself. But I mean, I don’t know if I’d give her any advice.”
“You have to discover for yourself, and I would’ve had to discover for myself.”
“If someone told me to do something when I was younger, I wouldn’t have done it. So you just have to kind of find your own inspirations and own reasons” she added.
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Kylie Kelce alludes to Taylor Swift song to hint at next guest on podcast
Kylie Kelce has dropped clear hints that her next guest on the Not Gonna Lie podcast will be her husband, Jason Kelce.
In a teaser, Kylie shared hints about hte next guest on her hit podcast series and asked her audience to send “all the Halloween-related questions you can think of.”
She shared that a “very special guest” is set to join her to answer the inquiries in the next episode, which will drop on Thursday, Oct. 30.
Dropping some hints, she said, “You can also ask about the family, after-wax care, being married to me, Japanese maples, Queen Emma,” before saying, “I think I’m making it too obvious who this guest is. Too bad.”
While the biggest hint was being married to Kylie, fans may also know the Japanese maple trees refrence.
For the unversed, Jason made the reference on his and brother Travis Kelce’s podcast New Heights.
While talking about his soon-to-be sister-in-law Taylor Swift’s new song Wood, Jason joked about the singer alluding to Travis’ manhood as a “redwood tree” that “ain’t hard to see.”
“Travis, come on,” Jason said. “Redwood tree ain’t hard to see… I thought redwood, that’s a little bit, that’s a generous word, I think.”
He joked, “I think if somebody wrote a song about me, it’d be like, ‘Japanese maple sometimes can see.'”
Soon after, Kylie Kelce joined in on the joke and changed her Instagram bio to “Big fan of Japanese Maples.”
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