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Undercover Mosque: "...and he's left there to bleed to death for 3 days"

Undercover Mosque is a documentary from British Television Channel 4 programme Dispatches which aired on 15 January 2007 in the UK. The film caused a furore in Britain and the world press due to the content of the released footage.

The documentary presents film footage gathered from 12 months of secret investigation into mosques throughout Britain.

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The Channel 4 documentary provides footage from an undercover Dispatches reporter in various mosques in Britain during 2006, capturing certain Imams and speakers as they allegedly:

... proclaim the supremacy of Islam, preach hatred for non-Muslims and for Muslims who do not follow their extreme beliefs - and predict a coming jihad. "An army of Muslims will arise," announces one preacher. Another preacher said British Muslims must "dismantle" British democracy - they must "live like a state within a state" until they are "strong enough to take over."

... disseminate beliefs about women such as: "Allah has created the woman deficient, her intellect is incomplete", and girls: "By the age of 10 if she doesn't wear hijab, we hit her," and there's an extreme hostility towards homosexuals.

... condemning the idea of integration into British society, condemning British democracy as un-Islamic and praising the Taliban for killing British soldiers.

— Channel 4 website - "Undercover Mosque" summary

... suggests that Muslim children should be hit if they don't pray: 'When he is seven, tell him to go and pray, and start hitting them when they are 10.' Another preacher is heard saying that if a girl 'doesn't wear hijab, we hit her'. Another preacher says: 'The time is fast approaching where the tables are going to turn and the Muslims are going to be in the position of being uppermost in strength and, when that happens, people won't get killed - unjustly.'

— Jamie Doward, The Observer

Mosques and Islamic Centers investigated

Response

Jewish groups as well as members of the British Conservative and Labour parties have requested an official investigation into the alleged dissemination hate speech at mosques.

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Muslim groups such as the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) have condemned the documentary as "another example of anti-Muslim hostility," stating that it represents the "problems of inherent Islamophobia and racism within the mainstream media." The Muslim Council of Britain criticized it as "heavily hyped," while its Secretary-General, Muhammad Abdul Bari, described it as employing the "dishonest tactic of selectively quoting from some recorded speeches for the purpose of misrepresentation." The Islamic Cultural Center (London), the UK Islamic Mission, and the Markazi Jamiat Ahle-hadith organizations, all of whom feature in the documentary, have issued seperate responses. So too has Abu Usamah of Green Lane mosque, alleging that his words were taken out of context. In a press release, the Saudi Arabian Embassy in London denied the charges made by the documentary, labelling them as "false allegations." The Saltley Gate Peace group, which describes itself as an inter-faith action group based at the Saltley Methodist Church in Birmingham, was reported on Wikinews as having made a press release prior to the airing of the Channel 4 documentary, vindicating Green Lane mosque of any wrong-doing.

Similar programme on BBC

The BBC's Panorama program, aired on 21 August 2005, had previously revealed similar hate speech at various mosques in the UK.

Sheikh Abdur-Rahman Al-Sudais, a leading Imam from the great mosque in Mecca, is quoted in that program to have said:

"The worst ... of the enemies of Islam are those... whom he... made monkeys and pigs, the aggressive Jews and oppressive Zionists and those that follow them: the callers of the trinity and the cross worshippers... those influenced by the rottenness of their ideas, and the poison of their cultures the followers of secularism... How can we talk sweetly when the Hindus and the idol worshippers indulge in their overwhelming hatred against our brothers... in Muslim Kashmir..."

The Muslim Council of Britain denounced the program as "deeply unfair".

See also

References

  1. Channel 4 - Undercover Mosque
  2. Revealed: preachers' messages of hate
  3. Islamic Human Rights Commission - PRESS RELEASE: Channel 4’s ‘Dispatches: Undercover Mosque’
  4. ^ MCB - Channel Four 'documentary' programme - 15th January
  5. Dispatches Undercover Mosque Reply by Abu Usamah
  6. Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia London - PRESS RELEASE: Dispatches – ‘Undercover Mosque’

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