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
The alleged crimes are said to have taken place at the Siddiqi house in Coventry in the late
1980s and early 1990s when Siddiqi was in his early 20s and the two Dutch girls, who cannot
be named for legal reasons, were schoolchidren.
Through his solicitor, Mr Siddiqi has stated reports about sexual abuse are ’unfounded’ and
that rogue mosque-goers in the Netherlands are seeking to discredit his family.
The mother of the girls said: “I believed him and followed him myself, until my daughter told
me she was abused by him.”
She claimed her daughter told her she had been “abused in the most barbaric way” and that
“even now, a quarter of a century on, we are still trying to repair the damage”.
The two women, who are now middle aged, reported their allegations against Mr Siddiqi at a
police station in Coventry earlier this year.
have confirmed an investigation has been launched and that a
suspect was questioned earlier this month.
A police spokesman said: “A 51-year-old man from Nuneaton has been voluntarily
interviewed in relation to allegations of historical rape cases.