Chairman of Birmingham Central Mosque should quit over 7/7 bombings row says MP

Jul 5 2009 by Adam Aspinall, Sunday Mercury

“I’ve never said it was a Government conspiracy – it astounds me that people think that,” Dr Naseem said. “But I do believe the Government’s response to the bombings was flawed and does not make sense.

“The police and the politicians are not to be trusted so I believe that the conspiracy could be true.

“People have lost trust in the Government – just look at the expenses scandal.

“I believe we need to open an inquiry into the bombings in the same way that the Iraq inquiry has been set up.

“I do not believe the Government’s version of events.

“The intelligence service only provides one source of information when everybody knows that you have to corroborate it with a second source, which they did not.

“The Government got their facts wrong as well. They said the bombers got on a train which they did not, because it was cancelled.

“Anybody can prove anything they want with footage these days. They can add computer-generated effects – so we cannot trust any CCTV. I am not alone in this and I think 90 per cent of Muslims in Birmingham agree with me.

“I would say to the Government if they don’t have anything to hide, then hold a public inquiry.

“If they don’t have anything to hide, then they will do it.

“We don’t care if we are offending people.

“We think that people are being hyper-sensitive about this issue and do not think that people are willing to listen to us.”

The Sunday Mercury can also reveal that Dr Naseem’s Mosque received a portion of a £2.4 million grant as part of the Government’s Preventing Violent Extremism Pathfinder Fund (PVE) project.