'Extremist' who discourages singing and music is the patron of a Muslim school

An extremist has a guiding function at a Muslim faculty the place teenage ladies need to cowl all however their eyes, the Mail has found.

Hadhrat Shaykh Maulana Adam Sahib – who seems to condone 'placing' college students – is the founder and 'honorary patron' of the full-time ladies' faculty.

Pupils on the personal Islamic faculty, which caters for over-16s, are taught to cowl themselves absolutely in public.

Their strict uniform is the niqab – a protracted black robe that covers their complete physique aside from slits for his or her eyes.

An extremist has a guiding function at a Muslim faculty in Leicester (pictured) the place teenage ladies need to cowl all however their eyes, the Mail has found

College students have been photographed leaving the Jame'ah Uloomul Qur'an establishment in Leicester

The college is certainly one of six that function out of the Jame'ah Uloomul Qur'an establishment, in east Leicester. It's the just one that gives full-time schooling – between 8am and a couple of.30pm, Monday to Friday.

The 5 different colleges function largely within the evenings and weekends, catering for girls and boys of a wide range of ages. Sexes are understood to be segregated.

A whistleblower says Mr Adam, 79, 'oversees the college… providing steering as and when it is wanted'. One other supply near the college describes him because the 'philosophical head, who guides the decision-making'. However Mr Adam strongly denies he has an 'overseeing function'.

Jame'ah Uloomul Qur'an – all six sections – has by no means been inspected by Ofsted.

It's because present legal guidelines imply any faculty that's part-time – together with madrasas open within the evenings and weekends – should not have to register with the Division for Schooling. The identical applies to varsities for over-16s, even when they're full time.

Which means though this faculty has been working for greater than 25 years, it has by no means been inspected by Ofsted or checked by any authority, together with the native council.

Given the dearth of checks, it's unattainable to say what views these younger ladies are being taught. However it's recognized what Mr Adam teaches in sermons obtainable on the web.

In a single, translated from Urdu, he says: 'For a person to have a look at them ('unusual ladies') with want unlawfully, or for a girl to have a look at a wierd man unlawfully with want, it is a main sin, an amazing sin.

'If this isn't handled, if we do not rectify ourselves on this, then… this will result in an individual having an evil loss of life and it main him to the Fireplace.'

In one other lecture, he seems to endorse utilizing drive towards younger males who take into consideration ladies 'with want'.

He suggests in such circumstances it's justified to strike the boys' hand 'with drive', saying it teaches them a lesson.

Mr Adam is an influential Deobandi scholar. The Deobandis, who management practically half the mosques within the UK, have been accused of discouraging integration into British society.

Their strict uniform is the niqab – a protracted black robe that covers their complete physique aside from slits for his or her eyes 

The college is certainly one of six that function out of the Jame'ah Uloomul Qur'an establishment, in east Leicester

Mr Adam's son, Mufti Adam al-Kawthari, is described as a trainer at Jame'ah Uloomul Qur'an – the establishment as a complete, not the ladies' faculty.

Mr al-Kawthari additionally runs an Islamic 'recommendation centre' throughout the street from Jame'ah Uloomul Qur'an, referred to as Darul Iftaa. On its web site, he tells ladies to cowl themselves as a lot as attainable. He advises them to not sing, take heed to music, have a good time birthdays or use tampons earlier than marriage.

He additionally says it is 'impermissible' to aim to decorate or seem like the Kuffar (a time period for non-Muslims, extensively seen as derogatory). Manzoor Moghal, chairman of the Muslim Discussion board stated: 'Requiring ladies to cowl themselves like it is a approach of preserving them from integrating from the remainder of society. It isn't proper that colleges for over-16s usually are not routinely being inspected by Ofsted.'

A spokesman for the full-time ladies' part of the college denied Mr Adam has any involvement past being its founder and 'honorary patron' and stated Mr al-Kawthari can also be not concerned. Solely ladies lecturers work within the ladies' part, the spokesman added.

A spokesman for Mr Adam stated: 'He has by no means condoned or endorsed the usage of violence on anybody. These statements should have been taken out of context.'

Whereas he holds excessive views, Mr Adam has not endorsed unlawful or excessive motion of any type.

Mr al-Kawthari stated he has 'a really restricted lecturing function for 18 plus grownup males solely'.

The Division for Schooling stated: 'Extremism and intolerance has no place in our society. The place we obtain allegations of people selling twisted ideologies or discrimination in school rooms we are going to take motion.'

 

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