British bank closes accounts of people and institutions of Islamic

British bank closes accounts of people and institutions of Islamic


08/01/20140



Reuters / synchronization of the largest British banks to close the accounts of mosques and Islamic organizations and associations, with the date of the announcement of the results of an investigation committee to review the activities of the British and the philosophy of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was ordered by Prime Minister David Cameron. The oldest bank HTML. MSI. Me. C. British to close a number of bank accounts belonging to a number of Islamists who run the institutions bear thinking militants, including the Cordoba Foundation, which is close to the Muslim Brotherhood and its chairman Anas al-Tikriti and Welfare Fund of the nation, was also closed account back to Regent Park Mosque in London, the largest mosques in Britain. The list included studies center and mosque Fansbera Park, which was supervised by Abu Hamza al-Masri, who was handed over by Britain to the United States, was convicted on charges related to terrorism and the events of September 2001 in the United States.
He said al-Tikriti, president and founder of the Cordoba Foundation for the Dialogue of Cultures and the son of former Comptroller General of the Muslim Brotherhood in Iraq, he collided with a wall of silence from the bank about the decision to close the account and the accounts of his wife and two sons of adults 16 years and 12 years.

He said al-Tikriti, 45, who is close to the Muslim Brotherhood organization 'I am angry because of the silence and the tone of the message. It's hard to Otqublh and I consider myself a law-abiding citizen trying to make things better in conflicts around the world are trying to promote peace and dialogue '.

It was al-Tikriti had earlier threatened that if the ban on the organization of the Muslim Brotherhood in Britain or other it will have serious implications, as it will make for terrorist groups and extremist credibility and momentum, and young people will move from the Muslim Brotherhood to extremist groups.

Bank did not provide reasons relating to the identity of those accounts, saying only that it is inconsistent with the risk management policy adopted by the bank. It was not known whether the closed accounts related organizations and associations accused of financing Islamic extremist rings on the instructions of the Bank of England, or an administrative decision is linked to the internal laws of the bank.

Khaled al-Omar, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Regent's Park Mosque in the great north London, they received a letter from the bank or HTML. MSI. Me. CNN last week informing them of the closure of the account, citing that it is not consistent with the standards of risk management at the bank.

Questioned Omar told to 'me. Me. C' motives in the bank, saying it did not provide compelling reasons to close the account.

The Bank of HTML. MSI. Me. C, in a statement, said he does not take decisions simply close the accounts, stressing that the decision 'was not based on anything to do with religion or race at all.'

The bank has adopted a package of standards and tests consists of 5 stages to assess the bank accounts after the financial authorities imposed a fine of U.S. $ 1.9 billion in 2012 because of irregularities in the field of money laundering and violation of U.S. sanctions on some countries.

He asked the bank last summer of 40 embassies, consulates and diplomatic missions to close their accounts because they do not fit in with the new standards to be adopted by the bank.

This comes at a time awaiting the international organization of the Muslim Brotherhood forthcoming report release end of August / August and before the summer vacation of the British Parliament, which will depend on the information the British diplomatic offices in the Middle East and the security agencies.

In early April / April, a spokesman for the prime minister in Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, ordered a review of the philosophy and activities of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the extent of the impact on the national interests of Britain.

A leader in the Muslim Brotherhood is in London, said the group was ready to accept the results of the British Committee for the review of its activities and philosophy, but if the report was issued in violation of our approach to peaceful, Fsnljo to justice.

The Secretary of Foreign Relations of Freedom and Justice Party (the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood), Mohammed Sudan, in remarks to the Anatolia agency that 'the British authorities had not yet completed its review of the positions of the group'.

A group of Republican Congress has provided, Sunday, a bill to classify the Muslim Brotherhood 'foreign terrorist organization', in what observers step reveal the transformation of U.S. qualitative relationship with the United States Brotherhood supported by the rise to power in Egypt and Tunisia, and opened the doors of dialogue with wide by revolutions 'Arab Spring' and then hoping to be an alternative to the systems which collapsed under the impact of social protests between 2010 and 2011.

Observers said that the United States chose in the end to be biased in favor of its interests in the Arab and Islamic region, especially the support of the Brotherhood angered the pivotal states in the Middle East known as the strategic alliance with the Americans, such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

The indicators seemed to decline in the U.S. position from its decision to stop the Brotherhood earlier decision to freeze an important aspect of military aid to Egypt, against the backdrop of the overthrow of the revolution June 30 Brotherhood, what many considered a recognition of failing to assess the attitude toward Egypt, which is an influential figure in the region.

At the end of December / December, the government announced that the Egyptian Brotherhood 'terrorist group' and all of its activities 'banned', and accused the implementation of the bombing of the building, the Security Directorate of the province of Dakahlia, killing 16 people, despite condemnation of the group for the incident, and denied responsibility for it.

And included Saudi Arabia, on the seventh of March / March 8 Muslim Brotherhood and other organizations on the list of 'terrorist groups', according to an Interior Ministry statement. 

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