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Here comes the inevitable denials and obfuscations and voicing of fear of a "backlash" against all Muslims for the sins of a few extremists. Yeah, right"
CITY religious leaders fear that all Muslims could suffer a backlash after hardline clerics were exposed in a TV programme.
A number of Birmingham mosques were featured in a Channel Four documentary about extremist preachers who delivered messages of hate and intolerance.
Undercover reporters spent months filming cleric Abu Usamah, speaking at Green Lane Mosque, in Small Heath, condemning Jews, Christians and others, promoting 'holy war' and calling for British democracy to be replaced with an Islamic State.
Representatives from Green Lane Mosque said they had launched an urgent investigation into Abu Usamah's lectures, while the head of the Jamia Mosque said the speakers were not regular members and had hired a hall to hold meetings.
Today, Muslim leaders roundly condemned extremists who use the name of Islam to spread hatred but also questioned the intent of the programme makers.
Dr Mohammed Naseem, from Birmingham Central Mosque, said: "It is disturbing that Channel Four focuses on these extremists who do exist in all kinds of societies.
"If you look at areas of the extreme Christian right you will find similar views.
"His remarks are not representative of the majority of Muslims and it paints a picture which is not realistic."
He said: "They are a very small minority but they are being given a profile which is being magnified many, many times.
"Islam teaches us to be tolerant and love your neighbour across the region, this is what 99 per cent of Muslims will hear in Mosques."
You know what I say to that?
This.
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- Good News: Undercover Mosque Documentary Cleared In Court
In January 2007 Britain's Channel Four Television aired a documentary called Undercover Mosque, in which a reporter went undercover at a London Mosque and filmed the horrendous hate speech regularly spewed within its premises. The police protested...
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- He Preached In Peoria
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- They Will Be The End Of Britain
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As Sure As The Sun Will Come Up
Here comes the inevitable denials and obfuscations and voicing of fear of a "backlash" against all Muslims for the sins of a few extremists. Yeah, right"
CITY religious leaders fear that all Muslims could suffer a backlash after hardline clerics were exposed in a TV programme.
A number of Birmingham mosques were featured in a Channel Four documentary about extremist preachers who delivered messages of hate and intolerance.
Undercover reporters spent months filming cleric Abu Usamah, speaking at Green Lane Mosque, in Small Heath, condemning Jews, Christians and others, promoting 'holy war' and calling for British democracy to be replaced with an Islamic State.
Representatives from Green Lane Mosque said they had launched an urgent investigation into Abu Usamah's lectures, while the head of the Jamia Mosque said the speakers were not regular members and had hired a hall to hold meetings.
Today, Muslim leaders roundly condemned extremists who use the name of Islam to spread hatred but also questioned the intent of the programme makers.
Dr Mohammed Naseem, from Birmingham Central Mosque, said: "It is disturbing that Channel Four focuses on these extremists who do exist in all kinds of societies.
"If you look at areas of the extreme Christian right you will find similar views.
"His remarks are not representative of the majority of Muslims and it paints a picture which is not realistic."
He said: "They are a very small minority but they are being given a profile which is being magnified many, many times.
"Islam teaches us to be tolerant and love your neighbour across the region, this is what 99 per cent of Muslims will hear in Mosques."
You know what I say to that?
This.
- Uk: Channel Four Announces Return Of Undercover Mosque
From the Guardian: Three months after Dispatches: Undercover Mosque won a police apology and libel damages, Channel 4 has announced it is returning to the subject in Undercover Mosque: The Return. Earlier this year West Midlands police and the Crown...
- Good News: Undercover Mosque Documentary Cleared In Court
In January 2007 Britain's Channel Four Television aired a documentary called Undercover Mosque, in which a reporter went undercover at a London Mosque and filmed the horrendous hate speech regularly spewed within its premises. The police protested...
- The Silence Is Eery, If You Ask Me
I've been wondering why the media hasn't been covering the "Undercover Mosque" Report from Channel 4's Dispatches program. I'm guessing I'm not the only person who's been wondering about that. It seems to me this story ought to...
- He Preached In Peoria
Photo from Fox News Remember this story, "Undercover at the Mosques," and these videos? I posted the story here in "Not To Worry. It Can't Be Happening Here." Now comes on January 18, 2007, this report from Fox News, via Jihad Watch. Excerpt: NEW...
- They Will Be The End Of Britain
Yet another couple of undercover reports on the extent to which Muslim Imams will go to obliterate British society and culture: Mr Latif has called Tony Blair a 'murderer'; he says that every British soldier in Iraq should be killed and he proclaims...