The largest Muslim sect in the UK, controlling half of Britain’s Mosques, hosted an Al-Qaeda associate of Osama bin Laden who spoke to numerous future terrorists as he toured their mosques across the country. The Deobandi sect was founded in British colonial India specifically to oppose western culture. It and its slightly more hardline offshoot, the ‘army of darkness’ Tablighi Jamaat movement, dominate Muslim schools in the UK, control 600 of Britain’s nearly 1,500 mosques and produce 80 per cent of all domestically trained Islamic ‘scholars’. The mainstream sect, which claims to be ‘moderate’, hosted the hate cleric Masood Azhar (pictured above) during a 30-day visit to the UK in 1993. He spoke as 42 mosques in east London, Birmingham, Dewsbury, Batley, Blackburn and Burnley and elsewhere on a “prepare for jihad” British tour. Mr. Azhar was an associate of Osama bin Laden at the time and went on to lead a banned terrorist organisation in Pakistan, which is responsible for numerous murderous attacks. He urged hundreds of British Muslims to seek weapons training at terrorist camps in Pakistan, including men who would go on to plot the July 7 London bombings of 2005, the 2006 plot to blow up seven transatlantic airliners