The Labour Party has been inflitrated by Islamic fundamentalists, a Government Minister admitted today.
Members of the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) which believes in Britain should develop sharia law have placed sympathisers in elected office and local branches of parties, an investigation revealed.
The covert campaign is part of an attempt at 'mass mobilisation' of voters by the group, which believes in jihad.
Jim Fitzpatrick, the Environment Minister, told the Sunday Telegraph the IFE had become a secret party within Labour.
He said: 'They are acting almost as an entryist organisation, placing people within the political parties, recruiting members to those political parties, trying to get individuals selected and elected so they can exercise political influence and power, whether it’s at local government level or national level.'
'They are completely at odds with Labour’s programme, with our support for secularism.'
Mr Fitzpatrick, the MP for Poplar and Canning Town, said the IFE had infiltrated and 'corrupted' his party in east London in the same way that the far-Left Militant Tendency did in the 1980s.
Leaked Labour lists show a 110 per cent rise in party membership in one constituency in two years.
A six-month investigation into the IFE and its political activities revealed it had 'consolidated' its influence at the London borough council of Tower Hamlets, which has a budget estimated at£1bn.
Other recordings by undercover reporters include leaders of the group saying they opposed democracy and supported sharia law.
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