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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

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“And as for the Jews, you kill them physically”Template:Google video

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

  • 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] “[T]hey 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 ten, it becomes an obligation on us to force her to wear hijab, and if she doesn’t wear hijab, we hit her.”[5]
  • Dr. Mian praised the Saudi religious police practice of imprisoning people who do not pray: “They send the police, and they say, well, if you don’t come for prayer, close your shop, we will arrest you But if you don’t, then we have to bring the punishment on you, you will be killed, and nobody will pray on you.”[5]
  • 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

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]

Muslim groups such as the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) have condemned the documentary as “another example of anti-Muslim hostility,” stating that it “exemplifies the problems of inherent Islamophobia and racism within the mainstream media.”[9] 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.”[10] The Islamic Cultural Center of London, the UK Islamic Mission, and the Markazi Jamiat Ahle-hadith organizations, all of whom are featured in the documentary, have issued separate responses.[10] Abu Usamah of Green Lane mosque, also has alleged that his words were taken out of context.[11][unreliable source?] In a press release, the Saudi Arabian Embassy in London denied the charges made by the documentary, labelling them as “false allegations.”[12]

The Saltley Gate Peace Group issued a press release giving its “undiminished support” to the Green Lane Masjid stating that Imam Abu Usamah “…is accepted by much of his congregation and the wider interfaith community to be a peaceful man and is known to promote peace to his congregation,” and that Abu Usamah “…encourages worshippers to avoid ‘political Islam and radicalism.’”[13]

Similar programme on the 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 Panorama program as "deeply unfair". The BBC rejected allegations of institutional or programme bias.[15]

Investigation by the 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 committed 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 police started to investigate the makers of the film, presenting a case to the Crown Prosecution Service against Channel 4 for breaking the Public Order Act 1986 by showing material likely to stir up racial hatred. The CPS determined that there was insufficient evidence to bring charges, but did lodge an official complaint 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 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)
  5. ^ a b c d e
  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)
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  9. ^ "Channel 4's 'Dispatches: Undercover Mosque' another example of anti-Muslim hostility as discussed in forthcoming IHRC report" (Press release). Islamic Human Rights Commission. January 15, 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-17. {{cite press release}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ a b "Channel Four 'documentary' programme - 15th January". Muslim Council of Britain. January 12, 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-17. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. ^ Abu Usamah response to Dispatches “Undercover Mosque” documentary on YouTube - January 18, 2007
  12. ^ "Dispatches – 'Undercover Mosque'" (Press release). Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in London. January 16, 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-17. {{cite press release}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  13. ^ "Channel 4 accused of creating mischief over portrayal of Black Muslim in Dispatches documentary". Black Britain. January 15, 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-17. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); External link in |publisher= (help)
  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". BBC News. August 23, 2005. Retrieved 2007-09-17. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

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