JIHADI GP: Pro-Hamas Doctor works in NHS. Should He be Struck Off?

Our Senior Fellow, Dr. Philip Kiszley took part in a GB News debate about the leader of the UK branch of an extremist Islamic group who has been exposed as working as a GP in the NHS under a different name. An investigation by the Mail on Sunday found Abdul Wahid, who heads the Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) group in the UK, also works as an NHS doctor and has done for more than 20 years. The HT group – banned in Germany and a dozen other countries – has called for ‘jihad’ at an anti-Israel protest and described Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7 as a ‘very welcome punch on the nose’. Meanwhile he’s been practicing as a family doctor under his real name, Dr Wahid Asif Shaida. Should he be struck off?