The Islamic Center of England, a registered British religious charity in London, has been temporarily closed months after its Muslim trustees were removed by the UK aid watchdog, the Charity Commission, over what it called the trustee’s failure to comply with their legal duties and responsibilities and their failure to protect the charity’s assets.
In the early 2000s, the British government and the Charity Commission initiated a program calling on all UK mosques to become registered charities and by doing so, critics say, control what those Muslim institutions could or could not say outside of what is lawful.
We were told, unofficially, that the real reason behind the temporary closure of the center on the advice of the interim manager was something to do with insurance, which they hope shall be resolved, and the doors to the center reopened to the public, soon.
