Islamic state conference billed for Vale Farm Sports Centre, in Wembley (From Harrow Times)

Islamic state conference billed for Vale Farm Sports Centre, in Wembley

12:49pm Tuesday 24th February 2009

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A GROUP calling for the imposition of Islamic law in the UK is advertising a conference in Wembley on Sunday.

Islam For The UK is hosting a talk on the Islamic State, described on its website as a “magnificent superpower”, with speakers discussing how “its destruction led to mankind’s present suffering”.

Amjem Choudary, a spokesman for the group, said the wrong venue had been deliberately advertised to stop the event being banned.

The venue is listed as Vale Farm Sports Centre, in Watford Road, and Mr Choudary said it will actually take place somewhere nearby.

He refused to say where.

He said: “What we tend to do is book two venues - one where we don’t want the event to take place and one where the event is going to take place, which we don’t advertise.

“There are people who don’t want it to take place.”

Brent Council, which runs the leisure centre, was forced to put a statement on its own website denying the reservation.

It reads: “The centre has not been booked to hold this event and promotions stating this are misleading and inaccurate.

“Please do not attend this venue for such an event.”

The organisation’s website states: “On the 3rd March 2009 C.E. it will have been 85 years since the destruction of the Islamic State, or in other words 85 years of tyranny, oppression and injustice.

“For over 1300 years this magnificent superpower dominated world affairs and introduced a law and order that lifted the masses from the darkness of man-made law and into the light of al-Islam.

“This special conference will be dedicated to providing an in depth overview of the Islamic State, its past, present and future as well as emphasise the need for all Muslims worldwide to struggle as much as they can for the sake of Allah (SWT) to implement the Shari'ah on the earth.”

The conference has been picked up by blogging website Jihad Watch which claims the talk shows there is a “politcal or supremicist agenda” within islamic tradition and teaching.

The event is due to take place between 3pm and 6pm.

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