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Labour were today blasted for inviting an extremist Muslim preacher to an anti-racism event.
Imam Shakeel Begg is due to appear at the Lewisham Labour Against Racism public meeting tonight alongside Labour MPs Janet Daby and Vicky Foxcroft.
Begg, who is head of the Lewisham Islamic Centre attended by Lee Rigby’s killers, lost a libel action in 2016 against the BBC after it called him an “extremist”.
He has previously called for Muslims to wage “jihad against the Jews”.
Anti-extremism experts said there was “no excuse” for Labour to give a platform to Begg given his history of extreme views.