Dr hany el banna biography channel

Co-founder, of the international aid agency Islamic Relief

Hany Abdel Gawad El-BannaOBE^[1] (born 9 December 1950)^[2] is the co-founder of Islamic Relief, the largest Western-based international Muslim relief and development NGO, established in 1984 in Birmingham, UK.

Muslim Charities Forum and Zakat House

El-Banna is a Chairman of Muslim Charities Forum (MCF)^[3] The organisation has been the subject of controversy in the United Kingdom. It was stripped of £250,000 in funding from the British government for its alleged ties to extremist organisations, and has been described in the British media as "an umbrella group for a number of leading Islamic charities, some of which allegedly have links to the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and other organisations designated as terrorist by some Western organisations but which designation they dispute."^[4][5]

Some of its members are also members of the Union of Good,