CHANNEL FOUR DISPATCHES PROGRAMME

That this House notes with great concern the content of the Channel 4 Dispatches programme broadcast on 15th January, which contained covert filming inside mosques in Birmingham and Derby showing speakers using highly derogatory and racist language against non-Muslims including, specifically, Christians, Jews, homosexuals, lesbians and women; further notes that one prominent speaker in the film called for homosexuals to be murdered; recognises that the overwhelming majority of Muslims in the UK do not share these racist and discriminatory views and prefer living in a tolerant, democratic and liberal-minded secular society as exists in the United Kingdom rather than in an Islamic state under Sharia law as was called for in the programme; believes that the West Midlands Police and the Director of Public Prosecutions should initiate investigations into the content of the programme; and asserts that incitement to religious and racial hatred and murder has no place in British society and should neither be excused away as misunderstandings nor tolerated.