The Home Office secretly financed a boyband to tour Muslim areas of Britain and sing songs with anti-radicalisation themes, it has been announced.
The British-American pop trio, known as ‘Mr Meanor’, visited schools across the north of England in 2016.
Large portions of Iraq and Syria were under the authority of the Islamic State terror group at the time, and hundreds of Britons had journeyed to the Middle East to join the militants.
Social media posts from the time document how the boy band performed to students in towns and cities such as Sheffield, Manchester, and Runcorn.
The posts also promote their charity single ‘Think About It’, which includes references to the 9/11 terror attacks in New York in 2001, and the 7/7 bombings in London in 2005.
The Tim Parry and Jonathan Ball Foundation for Peace, a Warrington-based organisation, was officially credited with organising the school’s visit.
But the Politics Home website reported it was part of a ‘covert’ Home Office initiative to deter potential Islamist extremists.
Financial records are said to disclose that the charity received £400,000 in funding from the Home Office’s counter-terrorism Prevent scheme shortly before the tour.
This was labelled in accounts as ‘Panther [programme]’, according to the website.
LinkedIn posts by former contractors are also said to indicate the tour and campaign were organised by the Home Office.
Communications for the tour were reportedly handled by Breakthrough Media.
The firm has previously been revealed to be a favoured contractor of a ‘propaganda’ arm of the Home Office, the Research, Information and Communications Unit (RICU).
RICU documents from 2015 are said to show how BreakThrough Media had worked with the Foundation for Peace charity.
One school visited by Mr Meanor during their 2016 tour was reported to have been Parrs Wood High School in Manchester.
A former student at the school was thought to have travelled to Syria in 2013.
The song ‘Think About It’ was released by Mr Meanor in 2016 and was written after the terror attacks in Paris.
It includes the lyrics: ‘See these hashtags all night, Turn the TV on and something else ain’t right, More people gone don’t know how we sleep at night.
‘What I’m hoping is we can lead a precious life, 9/11 changes how we view these things, People want to terrorise, and 7/7 left behind more broken lives right before our eyes.’
It just goes to show that Islam is a threat to our society, not just ours, but other countries as well.
We must stop the migration of anybody who practices Islam, because it is simply too risky to determine who is dangerous and who is not. Hopefully, our government will finally see this before it is too late.
Our government must deport all Muslims, and the boats must be stopped.
If the Home Office has financed this, what else have they secretly funded, past and present? It’s like we’re living in the world’s worst sitcom.
If migrants don’t like the UK or its values, send them home, but they don’t want to go home because there are too many benefits to staying.
THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO 