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We have already heard where it got West Midlands Police when it sought guidance from local mosques on the basis that it was consulting local communities. We heard about those three Birmingham mosques, but it is worth spelling out one of the things that happened there. Representatives from the al-Habib mosque were approached by officers. That mosque had previously hosted a preacher who urged worshipers to read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fabricated antisemitic text about Jewish plans for global domination. I am so embarrassed to be even saying this on Holocaust Memorial Day, and yet it is absolutely appropriate that I should say it on this day. Here we have police officers wandering in and having a chat with the kind of people who invited someone to give a talk entitled “Knowing the Facts”, delivered shortly after the 7 October Hamas pogrom, where the preacher asserted that the Jews intended to become sole rulers of the world. At the Jame mosque, another consulted organisation, a preacher delivered an Arabic prayer calling for the killing of Jewish people: “Allah, count them all. Kill them one by one. Don’t let any one of them get away”. This is the kind of ideology that would lead to the Holocaust.