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Home Office staff can join Islamic extremists

Home Office staff are free to be members of the Islamic extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, it was revealed yesterday.

Those working in the department responsible for immigration and homeland security do not even have to declare membership of the fanatical organisation, the Government admitted.

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This means Home Secretary John Reid has no idea how many of his staff hold the group's radical views and he has no means of monitoring their activities.

The revelation - in a written parliamentary answer - comes after Home Office IT manager Abid Javaid, 41, was found to be a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, which supports a worldwide Islamic state run under hardline Sharia law.

Shadow Immigration Minister Damian Green said: "This is really shocking. It is a dereliction of duty for them not to find out how many more Hizb ut-Tahrir members are on the Home Office payroll."

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