'Hitler' storm doc's degree.THE chairman of Birmingham Central Mosque Birmingham Central Mosque, is a Mosque in Birmingham, England, run by the Birmingham Mosque Trust, and is one of the largest Muslim centres in Europe. The mosque is open to people of all religious affiliations, men and women, and its main prayer halls currently hold between has been presented with an honorary doctorate from the University of Birmingham Due to Birmingham's role as a centre of light engineering, the university traditionally had a special focus on science, engineering and commerce, as well as coal mining. It now teaches a full range of academic subjects and has five-star rating for teaching and research in several . Dr Mohammed Naseem, pictured, who has been chairman of the mosque since 1975, is now a Doctor of the University. The 82-year-old Muslim leader stood for George Galloway's anti-war Respect Party coalition in the General Election in Perry Barr, and recently claimed he was being monitored by the security services, possibly MI6. He also infamously compared Tony Blair to Adolf Hitler, and faced fresh calls for his resignation after describing the video of July 7 suicide bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan Mohammad Sidique Khan (October 20, 1974 – July 7, 2005) was the oldest of the four suicide bombers responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings, in which bombs were detonated on three London Underground trains and one bus in central London suicide attacks that killed 52 as "of no significance'. Dr Naseem, who retired from the NHS in 1994, joined 1,400 students who graduated from the University of Birmingham in the Great Hall. Other honorary degrees went to Jayne Cadbury, a governor of Bournville Junior and Infant schools and former county president of St John's Ambulance in the West Midlands and Hereford and Worcestershire. Prof Ernest Irwin, who helped design Birmingham's Central Library as well as some of the exhibition halls at the NEC, Symphony Hall and ICC, became a Doctor of Engineering. The Rt Rev Gordon Mursell, who was Dean of Birmingham Cathedral and is now Bishop of Stafford, became a Doctor of Divinity |
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