Category: Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi

Sharia court cleric is quizzed over child rape

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.

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’.
The two women claim they were sexually abused by Siddiqi from the ages of 11 and 12 until they
were 16.
Siddiqi established the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal (MAT), Britain’s largest
sharia court legally operating in the UK under the 1996 Arbitration Act.
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.’

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

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.

Mr Siddiqi told the paper the claims were ‘unfounded’ and were part of a campaign
to discredit his family.
A West Midlands Police spokesman said: ‘A 51-year-old man from Nuneaton has been
voluntary interviewed in relation to allegations of historical rape cases. Enquiries
remain on-going.’
Lawyer Sheikh Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi is principal of a religious college outside
Nuneaton, Warwickshire.
He was a leading igure in protests against Charlie Hebdo magazine after 11 of their
journalists were massacred by Muslim extremists
He helped set up Muslim Arbitration Tribunal panels around the UK, described in
2008 as Britain’s irst legally binding sharia courts.
Speaking about the courts at the time, he said: ‘This method is called alternative
dispute resolution, which for Muslims is what the sharia courts are.’
The courts were criticised at the time, with then shadow home secretary Dominic
Grieve said: ‘These tribunals have no place in passing binding decisions in divorce or
criminal justice hearings.’

Muslim cleric, 51, who runs Britain’s largest network of sharia courts is quizzed over child rape claims

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.

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

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.