I do not think that Labour Environment Minister Jim Fitzpatrick will be in his job much longer. Not after the interview he has given to the Sunday Telegraph

For the minister the MP for Poplar and Canning Town reveals that the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) — an organisation which believes in jihad and sharia law, and wants to turn Britain and Europe into an Islamic state has placed sympathisers in elected office and claims, correctly, to be able to achieve “mass mobilisation” of voters. Fitzpatrick says the IFE have become a secret party within Labour and other political parties.

“They are acting almost as an entryist organisation, placing people within the political parties, recruiting members to those political parties, trying to get individuals selected and elected so they can exercise political influence and power, whether it’s at local government level or national level,” he said. “They are completely at odds with Labour’s programme, with our support for secularism.”

Mr Fitzpatrick, said the IFE had infiltrated and “corrupted” his party in east London in the same way that the far-Left Militant Tendency did in the 1980s. Leaked Labour lists show a 110 per cent rise in party membership in one constituency in two years.

The Telegraph and Channel 4’s Dispatches have found in a prplonged investigation that:

* IFE activists boasted they had already “consolidated … a lot of influence and power” over Tower Hamlets
* They received more than £10 million of taxpayers’ money.
* Much of that came from government funds supposed to prevent violent extremism.
* IFE leaders oppose democracy and support sharia law
* The IFE organised meetings with Taliban allies and men under FBI investigation for his part in 9/11
* "Moderate Muslims" say IFE and its allies were enforcing hardline views on the local community.
* IFE is said to demand curbs on "un-islamic" behaviour.
* An IFE Activist threatened a dating agency, demanding its owner close the business.
* And GEORGE GALLOWAY admits his 2005 election victory owed more to the IFE than it was wise to say

The IFE has particularly close links to Tower Hamlets council. Seven serving and former councillors said Lutfur Rahman, the current council leader, gained his post with the group’s help. Some said they were canvassed by a senior IFE official on his behalf.

After Mr Rahman was elected, a man with close links to the group, Lutfur Ali, was appointed assistant chief executive of the council with responsibility for grant funding.

This was despite a chequered employment record, a misleading CV and a negative report from the headhunters appointed to consider the candidates. The council’s white chief executive was subsequently forced from his post.

Since Mr Rahman became leader, more council grants have been paid to a number of organisations which our investigation established are closely linked to the IFE.

Funding for other, secular groups was ended or cut.

In the borough’s well-known Brick Lane area, council funds were switched from a largely secular heritage trail to a highly controversial “hijab sculpture”, angering many residents who accused the council of “religious triumphalism”.

Schools in Tower Hamlets are told by the council should close for the Muslim festival of Eid, even where most of their pupils are not Muslim.

I see The IFE has just partnered with the self styled lobbying organisation Power2010 who call for more democracy. Perhaps someone should ask them to comment on their new bedfellow's antics in Tower Hamlets.