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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
John Scheerhout

Didsbury Mosque 'turned a blind eye' to Islamist extremism before the Manchester Arena terror attack

The mosque attended by Manchester Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi 'preferred to turn a blind eye' to Islamist extremism rather than tackle it head on, families of those who died in the 2017 terror attack have said.

Didsbury Mosque 'buried its head in the sand', sidelined a liberal imam who spoke out against violent jihad and still to this day has not published a condemnation of violence on its website, according to their QC.

Suicide bomber Salman Abedi, who murdered 22 innocents when he detonated a huge improvised device in his backpack at the end of an Ariana Grande concert, and his jailed brother, Hashem Abedi, attended the mosque on Burton Road in west Didsbury as youngsters and their father, Ramadan Abedi, performed the call to prayer.

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