Mayor gives £30,000 to a muslim exremist group

So what do you do with an extremist muslim group? Ban the group, arrest its followers. NO, you give it money, £30,000 from London's current mayor Boris Johnson in addition to the £70,000 given by the previous Mayor, Ken Livingstone. This is London

Mayor Boris Johnson has given at least £30,000 of taxpayers' money to an organisation co-controlled by an Islamist "extremist", the Standard can reveal.

Azad Ali praises a spiritual leader of al Qaeda on his blog, denies the Mumbai attacks were "terrorism" and quotes, apparently approvingly, a statement advocating the killing of British troops in Iraq.

He also criticises those Muslims who "tell people that Islam is a religion of peace".

He describes non-Muslims as "sinners" and says Muslims should "hate [non-Muslims'] disbelieving actions".

Mr Ali is the founding chairman, and current treasurer, of the Muslim Safety Forum, a group that has received at least £30,000 from City Hall since Mr Johnson's election last May.[...]

However, City Hall payment lists seen by the Standard show that in the same month, his organisation received the latest of its £10,000 quarterly payments from the GLA.

It also received £10,000 in July and October last year, as well as at least £70,000 under the previous Mayor, Ken Livingstone. Its annual general meeting, in July, was addressed by Mr Johnson's deputy mayor, Richard Barnes.