UK: Saudi Female Preachers of Hate Secretly Filmed in Mosque

Hardline female ‘preachers of hate’ are radicalizing Muslim women at one of Britain’s top mosques.

The Saudi Arabian preachers were secretly filmed ordering women to murder gays and ex-Muslims.

Undercover reporters from Channel 4’s Dispatches recorded the lectures in the women’s section of Regent’s Park Mosque in London.

Anunnamed Saudi woman is seen mocking other religions – labellingChristianity ‘vile’ and an ‘abomination’. Another, known as‘Angelique’, claims Britain is a ‘land of evil’.

The investigators attended lectures for two months at the mosque,which had promised a clean-up after another Dispatches probe just 18months ago exposed it for spreading extreme Islamic views.

Duringone sermon, a woman called Um Amira says: ‘He is Muslim, and he getsout of Islam…what are we going to do? We kill him, kill, kill.’

Inthe programme, to be screened tomorrow, she adds that women adulterersshould be stoned to death and people who have sex before marriageshould get ‘100 lashes’.

Regent’s Park Mosque is one of thebiggest and most prestigious Islamic institutions in the UK. Opened in1944 by King George VI, it can hold up to 5,000 worshippers.

Afterthe 2007 Dispatches investigation, which also looked at mosques inBirmingham, West Midlands Police and the Crown Prosecution Service(CPS) claimed Channel 4 had distorted sermons and tried to presscharges.

But watchdog Ofcom dismissed their findings and Channel 4 won six-figure libel damages from the police and CPS.

Thistime, Dispatches returned to Regent’s Park Mosque to find exactly thesame extremist books on sale there and the female preachers spreadingradical Wahhabi Islam.

One Saudi woman, who mocks otherreligions, says: ‘We feel nothing sometimes going past the church. Whatthey say with their tongues is so vile and disgusting, it’s anabomination.’

Another female preacher, Um Saleem, says it ‘breaksher heart’ to see Muslims ‘working in banks, wearing shortsleeves…and make-up’.

The man in charge of the mosque, Dr AhmedAl Dubayan, is Islamic Affairs attaché to the Saudi Embassy. Dispatchesclaims the mosque has links to the Saudi government, which it accusesof spending billions spreading the Wahhabi message. The Saudi Embassydenied this.

Dr Al Dubayan said he did not know the preachers inthe documentary and claimed the mosque ‘does not support or condoneextreme views’.

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2008-08-31