The first ever national council of imams and mosques is to be set up to prevent them from being used by extremists, to set standards and to reduce reliance on foreign clerics, it was agreed yesterday.
The council, which will bring together every Muslim tradition in Britain, will attempt to clear out the "old guard" of "overwhelmingly elderly and foreign-born men" who run the country's 1,400 mosques and who are accused of being out of touch with Muslim youth.

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