Female Saudis Preach Extremism in British Mosques
Females from Saudi Arabia have been videotaped preaching radical Islamic doctrine in Great Britain, The Evening Standard reported at the end of August. Channel 4 in Britain’s reporters secretly videotaped these preachers advocating the killing of former Muslims and homosexuals, despite a previous investigation 18 months ago that resulted in a promise to stop such preaching.
“He is Muslim, and he gets out of Islam…what are we going to do? We kill him, kill, kill,” one female preacher is quoted as saying in the report. Channel 4’s investigation also said the mosque where this took place, called the Regent’s Park Mosque, was linked to the Saudi Arabian government, which the Saudi Embassy has denied.
The female preacher then says, “This is not to tell you to start killing people,” she says according to The Telegraph. “There must be a Muslim leader, when the Muslim army becomes stronger, when Islam has grown enough.”
One of the undercover reporters involved in the investigation, who is a Muslim, says that the preachers did speak against terrorism and did not advocate breaking any laws, but warned Muslims against developing friendships with non-Muslims and called upon them to segregate themselves away from them. Another preacher described Britain as “the land of evil.”
Sarah Hassan, the pseudonym given to the Muslim reporter in the investigation, wrote in the Telegraph that not all preaching at the mosque was radical. The Egyptian imams’ Friday sermons were moderate, but the book store and the women’s section were different.
“Their teachings shocked me. This was not the Islam that I and many other Muslims in the UK were taught as youngsters, nor is it a version that most Muslims follow,” Hassan wrote. “I was amazed at how many young British women seemed to find this version of the faith attractive.”
