@VANTERHEYDEN :
This is a very poor attempt to prove your claims that the Mosque has financed the candidates. The documentary itself was a sham, making accusations against IFE. IFE is a very active organisation, and like every other lobby group it gets the community and politicians to be swayed in a certain direction. This is nothing illegal and this is politics. Every lobby group whether religious or not has an agenda and does the very same thing. Let's take the Zionist lobby, it attempts to sway its community members and politicians to stand up and represent the zionist ideology in favour of Israel.
VANTERHEYDEN it is a shame that you point out the IFE documentary, it only drops your credibility, you truely do not understand the community in Bethnal Green & Bow. When Muslims do not partake in politics and mainstream society, they get accused of being isolationists and not ingrating. When they do engage in society and politics, they are accused of having a sinister agenda.
IFE is NOT East London Mosque. IFE does use its venues like other organisations at the mosque to carry out its classes. IFE has been responsible for acheiving great feats in East London: political engagement, cleaning the streets of hooligans, getting the young generation to be engaged in creative activities, emancipating the drugs problem etc etc. And if they are credited with removing Oona King, who voted for the war in Iraq...well done IFE!
We all don't agree with every policies and agendas IFE and other political organisations stand for. If there is an alternative, let them come out and lobby. But that is politics! I recommend that you do not dig into the politics of Bangladesh, both pre and post independance. It is a can of worms that you do not want to touch.
So VANTERHEYDEN, you have yet to come out of any proof of the Mosque sponsoring any of the candidates. This is a very serious accusation to which the only proof you bring is the IFE documentary. Know the consituency you are standing for before you start accusing great institutions that have done so much good for the common good of society.