The Prime Minister has been questioned on the findings of the National Secular Society’s report on religious charities which promote misogyny. At Prime Minister’s Questions today, Labour MP for North West Cambridgeshire Sam Carling said the NSS’s Mission and Misogyny report highlighted “alarming numbers of extremist organisations in the UK promoting hideous views about women” registered as charities. As registered charities, they are “eligible for various tax exemptions, as well as thousands or even millions of pounds of public money through gift aid”. He asked: “As part of the Government’s mission to halve violence against women and girls, will the Prime Minister support my campaign for a review of charity law and regulation so that we can make sure the UK taxpayer is not funding hate and extremism through this route?” He highlighted how the former president of one religious charity, the Islamic Sharia Council, had denied the existence of marital rape, and how another charity, IslamBradford, had signposted material promoting female genital mutilation (FGM). Other charities have said a woman must serve her husband …