Muslim trust case 'an example to would-be charities'

By Rosie Walker, Third Sector Online, 18 March 2008

The Charity Commission has been unable to resolve a dispute between members of a trust, and has warned other would-be charities that all parties involved must be willing to agree on a constitution before they can register.

An inquiry into the Doncaster Mosque Trust, which runs a mosque and Islamic library, found that some trustees wanted membership of the mosque to be restricted to Muslims of the Deo-Bundi sect, whereasa others wanted it to be open to all Muslims in Doncaster. It also found that the trust...

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