Radical Islamist free to give Birmingham lecture despite pro-beheading comments

He also praised the terrorists who carried out the 9/11 attacks in America calling them “brave lions”.

The Bangladeshi scholar was due to speak in Birmingham this evening at the Islamic Conference 2023 which is being hosted and organised by TV channel ION TV.

He is also set to appear in London on Wednesday.

In his home country Bangladesh, Abbasi has said: “If anybody dares to criticise our Prophet (Mohammed) that person should be declared as a disbeliever and hence his/her head should be chopped off.

“If that person urges to apologise for criticising Mohammed we would not give them any chance or accept their apology.

“In this democratic Bangladesh if anybody dares to criticise God, no matter that person be any intellectual, atheist or blogger, that person’s head should be chopped off.”

In another rant, he blasted Queen Elizabeth II for her Queen's Young Leaders Programme which praised teacher Ayman Sadiq who founded Bangladeshi online learning platform 10 Minute School.

Abbasi said: “The young children are being taught living together, free sex, intermingling in sexes, homosexuality and nasty concepts of sexual relations with transgenders in the name of education.

“They are being transformed into disgusting human beings with inferior characteristics, all in the name of the education system.

“I was saying now it is crystal clear what the Queen of Britain is doing in the name of helping people.”

He has previously labelled the theory of evolution a “conspiracy” and insisted it “had not been proven scientifically”.

Abbasi added: “All the scientists are weed addicts. But Charles Darwin is the father of all weed addicts.”

In another hate-filled speech the cleric commended Osama Bin Laden, the orchestrator of the September 11 attacks in America, and founder of the Taliban, Mullah Omar.

He said: “You will never have the merit to carry Laden and Omar’s shoes even after 50 years of pursuit.”

Abbasi went on to call those who flew planes into the World Trade Center in New York in 2001, “brave lions”.

The hate cleric has also delivered hateful speeches against Ahmadi Muslims, a persecuted minority of the Islamic faith, urging his followers to kill them.

According to exiled Bangladeshi blogger Asad Noor, this anti-Ahmadi speech led to two Muslims being killed and houses being torched.

In 2010, then-Home Secretary Theresa May banned Indian Muslim preacher Zakir Naik from entering the UK.

At the time, she said: "Numerous comments made by Dr Naik are evidence to me of his unacceptable behaviour.”

He was due to give a series of lectures in London and Sheffield.

Two years ago Islamic orator Mizanur Rahman Azhari was denied boarding a Qatar Airways flight.

Reports said he was travelling to the UK to attend an Islamic conference at the invitation of the satellite television channel ION TV UK.

In 2009, Geert Wilders, the rightwing Dutch politician, was refused entry to the UK ahead of a showing of his 17-minute film Fitna, which criticised the Qur'an as a "fascist book" at the House of Lords.

Wasiq Wasiq, Associate Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, told GB News: “Enayetullah Abbasi is alleged to have used rhetoric that is inciting hatred against Hindus and minority Muslim sects.

“The fact that he has been allowed to enter the UK and speak freely demonstrates a weakness in our ability to properly vet hateful preachers. He should be on the first plane back to Bangladesh and handed to the authorities there.”

GB News contacted a reporter at iON TV, who rejected this broadcaster’s claims that Abbasi was delivering hateful and extreme rhetoric.

John Spellar, Labour MP for Warley, told GB News: “Given his record, how the hell was he allowed to come into the country?

“If we are clear that he has made these statements, what the hell were the Home Office thinking?

“Clearly they have questions to answer.”

A Home Office spokesperson said: “Extremism has no place in our society.

"We work closely with law enforcement, local communities and our international partners to tackle groups and individuals who sow division and hatred.”