Sheikh Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi

Sharia court cleric is quizzed over child rape

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A MUSLIM cleric who runs Britain’s largest network of sharia courts has been questioned over historic child rape allegations.
West Midlands Police are investigating claims that Sheikh Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi raped two Dutch women in the 1980s and 1990s.
He has denied the claims, which first appeared in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, saying they are ‘unfounded’ and part of a campaign to discredit his family.
The cleric, 51, is the head of the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal, an Islamic legal service that operates a string of controversial sharia law courts across England which critics say discriminate against women.
The two women claim they were sexually abused from the ages of 11 and 12 until they turned 16. They were sent to the UK by their parents to be educated by Sheikh Siddiqi’s father, a respected Muslim scholar.
A West Midlands Police spokesman said: ‘A 51-year-old man from Nuneaton has been voluntarily interviewed in relation to allegations of historical rape cases. Inquiries remain ongoing.’
Sheikh Siddiqi is also head of an Islamic college based at a stately manor in Warwickshire. He also owns a Devon holiday park where several Premiership footballers have cottages.

A British sharia court founder has been questioned by police over two historic allegations of child rape.

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Sheikh Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi, 51, who runs the UK’s biggest sharia courts network, is accused of
raping two Dutch girls in the 1980s and 1990s, according to police.
West Midlands Police are investigating the claims, both of which the Muslim cleric has denied.
When the claims first appeared in De Telegraaf, a Dutch newspaper, Siddiqi branded then
‘unfounded’.

Muslim preacher who runs Britain’s biggest sharia court denies raping two Dutch women in UK when they were young schoolgirls

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A Muslim cleric who has worked towards opening sharia law courts in the UK has
been questioned over historic rape claims.
Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi, 51, voluntarily spoke to oicers looking into claims two Dutch
women were sexually abused when they were children in the 1990s.
The women went to West Midlands Police over allegations they were attacked while
staying with the sheikh’s religious community in the UK, Dutch newspaper De
Telegraaf reported.

Muslim cleric behind Britain’s biggest sharia court denies child sex offences after being questioned by police

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A British Muslim preacher has denied allegations of child sex offences after two women
claimed he raped them as children.
Sheikh Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi has voluntarily been questioned by West Midlands Police in
connection with the ongoing investigation.
Mr Siddiqi currently teaches at the Hijaz College between Hinckley, Leicestershire and
Nuneaton in Warwickshire.
Two Dutch women have accused the 51-year-old of raping them when they were children
after they were sent to the UK by their parents to study Islam, reports

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