Islamic Bookshops Allowed to Bring ‘Skilled’ Migrant Workers to Britain
26th July 2026
Islamic bookshops selling anti-Semitic texts have been granted the right to bring “skilled” migrants to Britain, The Telegraph can disclose.
The Home Office has given powers to sponsor “skilled worker” visas to a string of bookshops, which are thought to have used them to bring dozens of people into the UK.
Books sold by some of the stores claim that Jewish people had a “wicked nature”, while other texts are deemed a radicalisation threat by UK prisons.
One book on sale is Milestones by Sayyid Qutb, the influential Muslim Brotherhood leader whose work rails against Western civilisation and “world Jewry”.
Other works on offer include those by Hasan al-Banna, the Brotherhood’s founder, and by Bilal Philips, a cleric banned by the Home Office, whose writings offer advice on beating wives. All the books reviewed by The Telegraph can legally be sold in the UK, and there is no suggestion the bookshops have broken any rules.