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Dear Sir, I write to bring your attention to the programme 'Undercover Mosque' shown on Channel Four TV on Monday 15th January 2007 between 8 pm - 9 pm. This programme featured deeply disturbing footage recorded secretly by an undercover journalist, alongside extracts from Islamic propaganda DVDs on sale openly at various mosques. This material was clearly shown to include serious criminal offences, including incitement to violence against children, women, homosexuals, Jews, Christians and non-Muslims. Other potential offences include incitement to racial hatred, paedophilia and treason. The potential offences are shown in the programme being committed by a number of clearly identifiable individuals, in clearly identified places, including Green Lane Mosque, Small Heath, Sparkbrook Mosque, Alum Rock Islamic Centre, the Al-Tawid Mosque in East London and the bookshop at Regent's Park Mosque, Central London. The individuals include Dr. Bijal Philips, Abu Usama, Sheikh Hassan, the trustees of the Markazi Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith UK charity, Sheikh Faiz and Murtaza Khan. It is highly likely that the unused footage collected by Channel Four can also be used to identify other individuals and potential offences. As the people of this country are already all too aware, such radical Islamist teachings are not a matter merely for academic concern; the role of hate-preaching in radicalising and recruiting potential terrorists and suicide bombers is a matter of record. This is not an issue of free speech, since freedom of speech has never included the right to incite serious criminal offences. I therefore write to ask that your force take immediate action to obtain all the material collected by Channel Four in the course of their investigation and to create a specialist investigative team to study the material in detail with a view to bringing prosecutions and to closing down the institutions and organisations responsible for these various hate-crimes. In addition, since it is also well-known that radical Islam is a form of ideological and psychological virus, I ask that serious consideration be given - in the interests of public safety - to the immediate closure of all the buildings shown as being the bases for these dangerous teachings until your investigation is over and the guilty individuals have been removed and replaced by genuine moderates who can be guaranteed not to preach hatred and jihad against our society. I would also ask that your team be particularly aware of the responsibility of registered charities and the recipients of government grants to remain at all times within the law, and to notify the Charity Commission and grant-making bodies of all instances you uncover where this has not been the case. Finally, in view of the record of 'graduates' from the Medinah University in Saudi Arabia for involvement in incitement to serious offences in the UK, and the clear link between the preachers of hate in this programme with that institution, I urge you to press the Home Secretary to use his powers to expel immediately any and all foreign graduates from Medinah University on the grounds that their presence here is not conducive to the public good, and to arrest and hold all British citizen graduates or students of the same institution under Anti-Terrorism law preventative powers. While I appreciate that you will not be able to divulge any operational details, I look forward to your prompt confirmation that action will be taken to investigate the allegations made by this programme, to examine all the unused material collected during its making, and to follow up all the leads it contains for the fight against Islamist radicalism and terrorism. Sincerely, |