Revealed: radical Islamic cleric who sells ‘libido-boosting’ pills to run combat camp in the Peak District

An Islamic cleric who has openly supported Hezbollah members is to lead a summer camp in the Peak District this week that combines religious ideology with physical combat training, the JC can reveal. . . . Material obtained by research and advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) and shared exclusively with the JC can now reveal that Sayed [Hussein Makke] trained under a senior Hezbollah figure at a seminary in Lebanon, and has openly mourned the IRGC Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani and other Hezbollah fighters killed in combat. . . . Kasra Aarabi, director of IRGC research at [UANI], said of the story: “This represents a serious failure by UK regulatory and security bodies. How is it that a cleric with publicly documented associations to Hezbollah—a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK—is able to host so-called Islamist ‘warrior camps’ for young British Muslim men, with no evident oversight? These gatherings have reportedly taken place for years without scrutiny. . . . Iranian regime-linked extremism in the UK remains a glaring blind spot for the regulatory bodies. Parliament must now intervene and hold those responsible to account. This oversight has been going on for far too long.”