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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 footage provides an uncensored insider's view in major mainstream mosques in Britain throughout 2006 capturing imams and speakers as they:

• preach hatred of non-muslims who are repeatedly labeled as Kuffr
• incite for the murder of apostates "Whom ever changes his religion from Al Islam to anything else kill him".
• advocate violent Jihad against the non-muslims and predicting that an army of Muslims will arise against the non-muslims in England
• sanction pedophilia "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." (But the documentary shows that the preacher subsequently explained that he was not advocating that UK laws be broken.)
• condemn Muslim integration into British society,
• call for sedition and for Muslims to dismantle British democracy and get ready to take over the society."They will fight in the cause of Allah. I encourage all of you to be from among 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."
• explain that Muslims in Britain are in a situation in which they have to live like a state-within-a-state - until they take over. But until this happens, they have to preach, until they become such a force that the people just submit to.
• advocate the beating and degradation of women, "Allah has created the woman deficient, her intellect is incomplete, ...by the age of 10 if she doesn't wear a hijab, we hit her.
• threaten muslims 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"
• call for the murder of homosexuals who “should be killed by throwing them off a cliff". [1]

Usaamah, one of the preachers featured in the documentary, was quoted after the secret filming as saying that he was not advocating that UK laws be broken and that many of the above statements and rulings would only be carried out in an Islamic state following Islamic law.

• Markazi Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith ,
• UK Islamic Mission
• London Central Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre in Regent's Park
• Green Lane mosque : Birmingham's main mosque
• Ahl-e-Hadith mosque, in Derby
• UKIM's Sparkbrook Islamic Centre, in Birmingham

Jewish groups as well as members of the British Conservative and Labour party have requested an official investigation into the alleged dissemination hate speech at mosques. [2]

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."^[1] 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."^[2] 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.^[2] So too has Abu Usamah of Green Lane mosque, alleging that his words were taken out of context.^[3] In a press release, the Saudi Arabian Embassy in London denied the charges made by the documentary, labelling them as "false allegations."^[4]

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 [3] 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 the Salafi methodology strive to follow the earliest traditions so that their Islam is peaceful and pure.

The BBC's Panorama program, aired on 21 August 2005, had previously revealed similar hate speech at various mosques in the UK. [4]

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".[5]

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