Channel 4 has announced plans to broadcast a sequel to its investigation into extremism in mainstream British mosques, “Undercover Mosque”.
The original Dispatches programme, broadcast in January 2007, sparked controversy when undercover reporters revealed preachers condemning non-Muslims and integration into British society, praising the Taliban for killing British soldiers and calling for the death of homosexuals.
West Midlands police responded by referring the programme to media regulator Ofcom and issuing a statement (with the Crown Prosecution Service) saying that the programme-makers had "heavily edited" the words of the preachers so their meaning was "completely distorted", and accusing the producers of inciting racial hatred.
However, Ofcom cleared Channel 4 and Hardcash Productions of attempting to mislead the audience ruling that they "dealt with the subject matter responsibly and in context", and the CPS were forced to apologise.
For the sequel, Dispatches: Undercover Mosque: The Return, investigators have revisited mosques in the UK presented as moderate to "see whether extremist beliefs continue to be promoted in certain key British Muslim institutions". Again, reporters found evidence of extremist and intolerant beliefs being spread by some UK mosques.
Channel 4 said the programme also "investigates the role of the Saudi Arabian religious establishment in spreading a hard-line, fundamentalist Islamic ideology in the UK - the very ideology the government claims to be tackling".
Dispatches: Undercover Mosque: The Return will be shown on Channel 4 on September 1 at 8pm.
Well before I can comment I have 2 look at the whole footage. Really dont trust 'hardline' productions. They tend 2 be quite islamophobic! I'v been to so many mosques where I was really welcomed and nicely treated.
Harriet
You silly woman!
Theyre ALWAYS nice to non muslims...its behind your back they do these things.
You have no concept of what Islamists are doing in the UK and wider Europe, and if you had you wouldnt use the term "Islamophobic"...anyone who objects to their evil attitudes is called this. Wake up, silly woman, smell the coffee (or should I say curry?).