Hamas apologist had job at nuclear plant – Revealed: high roles held by key members of extremist group which backed October 7 killers

Firebrand members of an excessive Islamic group that celebrated the Hamas terror assault on Israel work on the coronary heart of UK business, a Mail investigation has discovered.

A probe of senior members of extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir – together with one who praised the Hamas mass murderers as ‘heroes’ – found they’ve labored for main infrastructure companies, funding banks, the NHS, drug corporations and even at a nuclear energy station.

Greater than half one million pro-Palestinian protesters are resulting from take to the streets of London this morning on Armistice Day amid fears it may very well be marred by outbursts of anti-Semitism that occurred on earlier marches.

These scenes embrace chants of ‘jihad’ at a protest organised by Hizb ut-Tahrir.

Our probe comes after The Mail On Sunday revealed final month how the UK chief of the group, Abdul Wahid, works as a GP in Harrow, north-west London, beneath the title Dr Wahid Shaida.

Wahid described the barbaric October 7 Hamas terror assaults during which 1,400 males, ladies and kids have been slaughtered as a ‘very welcome punch on the nostril’ to Israel.

Following the assaults, the group held a protest in central London urging Arab states to mobilise their armies in opposition to Israel and the place there have been requires ‘jihad’ – which led to calls for for the police to step in.

It’s feared that members might maintain one other splinter demonstration right now.

Final night time anti-Semitism campaigners warned Hizb ut-Tahrir’s disturbing rhetoric was ‘lethal critical’ and much more ‘alarming’ as a result of its members had held key roles in UK business.

These embrace mechanical engineer Luqman Muqeem who posted on social media in reward of the ‘heroes’ of the Hamas assaults which had ‘made us all very, very pleased’. On his now deleted Instagram web page, he additionally mentioned: ‘The heroes of Raza [Gaza] broke by way of the enemy traces of the yahood [Jews].’

At a convention internet hosting Hizb ut-Tahrir in July, Muqeem instructed a crowd that ‘radical change [will] come when Islam knocks down… secularism’, which might ‘convey an finish to the Western world order’.

After graduating from Aston College in Birmingham, Muqeem labored for Cubis Methods, which designs and manufactures cable components utilized in rail, telecoms, highway, water and energy industries worldwide. He has since left the corporate.

Between October 2017 and September 2018, he had a upkeep engineer placement as EDF’s Hartlepool nuclear energy station.

He claimed in his CV posted on his LinkedIn web page that work at ‘such a prestigious nuclear energy station’ had given him ‘deep perception into particular work and nuclear/power associated information’.

He added: ‘A few of my accomplishments embrace the manufacturing of a voids waste stock sheet, a upkeep inspection within the turbine corridor throughout plant outage and calculations of radioactivity of onsite gadgets.’

EDF mentioned it was an office-based position for a number of months with the ability station’s environmental monitoring workforce.

Former Christian turned radical Muslim and key Hizb ut-Tahrir member Jamal Harwood says on his LinkedIn web page that he has beforehand labored as a advisor for main monetary companies together with Credit score Suisse, JP Morgan and RBS. RBS and JP Morgan have been unable to verify as a result of it was so way back. He describes himself as ‘reporting to managing/board administrators, has delivered strategic planning, change administration, and data administration options for a number of world funding banking and asset administration companies over a 23-year profession’. The daddy-of-four most lately mentioned his job was a finance lecturer on a college MBA programme and he was previously director of his personal IT consultancy agency along with his spouse.

Former Christian turned radical Muslim and key Hizb ut-Tahrir member Jamal Harwood says on his LinkedIn web page that he has beforehand labored as a advisor for main monetary companies together with Credit score Suisse, JP Morgan and RBS. RBS and JP Morgan have been unable to verify as a result of it was so way back

In an interview posted on the Hizb ut-Tahrir website on October 31, Harwood declined to sentence the October 7 assaults. He additionally backed the requires jihad made on the group’s rally every week earlier, saying: ‘I haven’t got an issue with that as a result of it is really constant as a result of after we have a look at the frequent understanding of jihad it’s Muslim military preventing in opposition to occupation or oppression. In order that was really a core message.’

He accused politicians of falling in behind the ‘Zionist entity’ which he accused of ‘genocide’ and ‘ethnic cleaning’.

One other outstanding Hizb ut-Tahrir member, Rupon Shahid, till March labored as senior enterprise analyst for an exterior contractor to pharmaceutical firm Roche beneath the title Shahid Haque.

The graduate of the London Faculty of Oriental and African Research additionally labored as an analyst at a London NHS belief, in accordance with his LinkedIn web page. After the October 7 terror assault he reposted vile feedback on Fb by Ata Abu Rashta, the worldwide chief of Hizb ut-Tahrir, which mentioned Jews ‘persist in dishonest, deception, immorality, depravity, cowardice, and humiliation’.

He has additionally reposted requires the armies of Muslim international locations round palestine to invade to liberate it from the ‘occupiers, colonisers and treacherous rulers’.

In the course of the Gaza battle in 2021, he posted feedback on Fb indicating assist for the ‘liberation of filistin [palestine] through jihad’.

A Marketing campaign In opposition to Antisemitism spokesman mentioned: ‘Final month, members at Hizb ut-Tahrir’s protest in London known as for ‘jihad’ beneath banners urging motion by ‘Muslim armies’. However the Met’s comical excuses for its inaction, this rhetoric is lethal critical. We at the moment are calling for the group to be proscribed.

‘These posts by associates of Hizb ut-Tahrir are equally alarming, on condition that they’ve held positions at universities and within the NHS.’

The Authorities has confronted repeated calls to ban Hizb ut-Tahrir, which desires the entire Islamic world to unite beneath one chief, and for Britain to fall beneath the rule of that ‘caliph’.

Tony Blair and David Cameron each tried to ban the group, which is proscribed in Germany and a number of other different international locations.

Roche mentioned: ‘The person in query has by no means been an worker, however was equipped by an exterior vendor who offered IT providers for our firm.’ Requested for remark, Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain insisted it had ‘no historical past of supporting anti-Semitism’ and believed ‘Jews must be handled justly as residents like they have been historically throughout the Caliphate’.

‘Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain additionally consider there is no such thing as a contradiction in opposing the continuing genocide of their private time and with performing their day jobs sustaining generators, treating the sick and arising with new medical discoveries,’ it mentioned.

The group added Mr Harwood’s interview ‘lined ‘Jihad’ within the context of State militaries rescuing the individuals of Gaza from violent occupation’ and mentioned there was no ‘condoning the homicide of civilians’.