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</ref> “…they will fight in the cause of Allah. I encourage all of you to be from amongst them, to begin to cultivate ourselves for the time that 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.”<ref name = "Transcripts" />
</ref> “…they will fight in the cause of Allah. I encourage all of you to be from amongst them, to begin to cultivate ourselves for the time that 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.”<ref name = "Transcripts" />
* Dr Mian: "You are in a situation in which you have to live like a state within a state, until you take over. But until this happens, you have to preach, until you become such a force that the people they just submit to you, hands up, until you become strong enough to take over" <ref>[http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=46983 British Muslims Get Their Soapbox Television]- New York Sun</ref>
* Dr. Mian: “You are in a situation in which you have to live like a state within a state, until you take over.
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* Sheikh Al Jibali: "by the age of 10 if she doesn't wear a [[hijab]], we hit her."
* Sheikh Al Jibali: "by the age of 10 if she doesn't wear a [[hijab]], we hit her."
* Dr Mian saying of the Saudi religious police: they can imprison people if they do not pray; "if you don't come for prayer, we will arrest you. But if you still don't, then we have to bring the punishment on you - you will be killed"<ref name = "Doward" />
* Dr Mian saying of the Saudi religious police: they can imprison people if they do not pray; "if you don't come for prayer, we will arrest you. But if you still don't, then we have to bring the punishment on you - you will be killed"<ref name = "Doward" />

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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 furor 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. However, a police investigation found that the programme makers had spliced together extracts from 56 hours of video and the speakers' comments were taken out of context.[1]

Content

Undercover Mosque generated controversy because it contained footage depicting British imams making the following statements:

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Undercover Mosque: “And as for the Jews, you kill them physically” [1]
  • Dr Ijaz Mian on the subject of non-muslim laws: “You cannot accept the rule of the kaffir [non-Muslim]…[w]e have to rule ourselves and we have to rule the others.”[2]
  • Abu Usamah saying of apostates: “If the imam wants to crucify him he should crucify him. The person is put up on the wood and he's left there to bleed to death for three days.”[3]
  • Abu Usamah speaking on the deficiency of women's minds: “Allah has created the woman, even if she gets a PhD, deficient. Her intellect is incomplete, deficient. She may be suffering from hormones that will make her emotional. It takes two witnesses of a woman to equal the one witness of the man.”[3]
  • Praises the killer of a British soldier serving in Afghanistan, stating "The hero of Islam is the one who separated his head from his shoulders.”[4]
  • Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal: “You have to bomb the Indian businesses, and as for the Jews you kill them physically.” [5]
  • Advocates violent Jihad against the non-muslims and predicting that an army of Muslims will arise against the non-muslims in England.[2]
  • Dr Bilal Philips on marriage with pre-pubescent girls: “The prophet Muhammad practically outlined the rules regarding marriage prior to puberty. With his practice, he clarified what is permissible, and that is why we shouldn't have any issues about an older man marrying a younger woman, which is looked down upon by this society today, but we know that Prophet Mohammed practised it, it wasn’t abuse or exploitation, it was marriage.”[3]
  • Condemns Muslim integration into British society.[2]
  • Calls for the overthrow of the British government and democracy.[6] “…they will fight in the cause of Allah. I encourage all of you to be from amongst them, to begin to cultivate ourselves for the time that 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.”[5]
  • Dr. Mian: “You are in a situation in which you have to live like a state within a state, until you take over.”

[7]

  • Sheikh Al Jibali: "by the age of 10 if she doesn't wear a hijab, we hit her."
  • Dr Mian saying of the Saudi religious police: they can imprison people if they do not pray; "if you don't come for prayer, we will arrest you. But if you still don't, then we have to bring the punishment on you - you will be killed"[2]
  • Abu Usamah saying that homosexuals should be killed by throwing them off a cliff, stating “throw [the homosexual] off the mountain.”[5]

Mosques and Islamic Centers investigated

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Undercover Mosque: "The 'hero of Islam' is the one who separated his head from his shoulders"

Response

Template:Muslims and controversies Jewish groups as well as members of the British Conservative and Labour parties have requested an official investigation into the alleged dissemination of hate speech at mosques. [8][9] 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."[10] 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."[11] 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 separate responses.[11] So too has Abu Usamah of Green Lane mosque, alleging that his words were taken out of context.[12] In a press release, the Saudi Arabian Embassy in London denied the charges made by the documentary, labelling them as "false allegations."[13]

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 [2] prior to the airing of the Channel 4 documentary. Wikinews records that press release as having included, amongst others, the following statements:

  • That Imam Abu Usaamah, one of the preachers featured in the documentary, is acknowledged by the a significant portion of his congregation and the wider interfaith community "to be a peaceful man and is known to promote peace to his congregation", and that he has denounced terrorism.
  • That the Green Lane Mosque is not known to promote extremism and the founders and committee of the mosque have always distanced themselves from such extremism
  • That the UK branch of Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith are based at the Green Lane mosque and Islamic. The statement explains that Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith is known loosely as 'Salafism', and that this school of thought does not promote extremism. However, it concedes that there may be a minority that feel otherwise. Nonetheless it states that those following the Salafi methodology strive to follow the earliest traditions so that their Islam is peaceful and pure.

These views were echoed on the BlackBritain website. [3]

Similar programme on BBC

The BBC's Panorama program, aired on 21 August 2005, had previously studied similar issues at various mosques in the UK.[14] The Muslim Council of Britain denounced the program as "deeply unfair". The BBC rejected allegations of institutional or programme bias.[15]

Investigation by Crown Prosecution Service in the UK

The West Midlands Police carried out investigations into the statements of three particular speakers recorded on the undercover mosque program, to see if they had commited a crime of inciting racial hatred. After studying 56 hours of source media on the three speakers they said that the programme had spliced together speech extracts which had completely distorted what the speakers had said. Then the police started to investigate the makers of the film. They presentented a case against Channel 4 for breaking the Public Order Act 1986 by showing material likely to stir up racial hatred, to the CPS but they said there was insufficient evidence to bring charges but have lodged an official complain with Ofcom.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "C4 'distorted' mosque programme". BBC News. August 8, 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-17. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ a b c d Doward, Jamie (January 7, 2007). "Revealed: preachers' messages of hate". The Observer. Retrieved 2007-09-17. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ a b c Lappin, Yaakov (January 16, 2007). "UK TV uncovers 'Islamic supremacism'". Ynetnews. Retrieved 2007-09-17. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ "Documentary reveals clerics 'preaching hate' in UK mosques". Daily Times. January 15, 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-17. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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  6. ^ Miele, Frank (January 21, 2007). "Tolerance of the intolerable". Editor's 2 Cents. Daily InterLake. Retrieved 2007-09-17. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); External link in |publisher= (help)
  7. ^ Bernhard, Brendan (January 19, 2007). "British Muslims Get Their Soapbox" (print view). Television. The New York Sun. Retrieved 2007-09-17. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ MP: Investigate Mosques
  9. ^ Calls for police investigation into Muslim extremism
  10. ^ Islamic Human Rights Commission - PRESS RELEASE: Channel 4’s ‘Dispatches: Undercover Mosque’
  11. ^ a b MCB - Channel Four 'documentary' programme - 15th January
  12. ^ Abu Usamah. Response to Dispatches "Undercover Mosque" documentary. 2007-01-18.
  13. ^ Press Release: Dispatches – "Undercover Mosque". Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia London. 2007-01-16.
  14. ^ Sacranie, Iqbal; Abdul Bari, Muhammad; Kantharia, Mehboob; Siddiqui, Ghayasuddin (21 August 2005). "A Question of Leadership" (Transcript). Interviewed by John Ware. Retrieved 2007-03-30. {{cite interview}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |subjectlink2= ignored (|subject-link2= suggested) (help)
  15. ^ "Muslims attack 'unfair' Panorama". Retrieved 2007-07-05.

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