Quilliam Report - A study of Islam Channel

[Harris Hammam]

Quilliam desperate for results - attacking the Muslim media...
New Quilliam Report - Re-programming British Muslims: A study of the Islam Channel



On 26th March 2010, Quilliam issued the following press release:

New Quilliam report released

Re-programming British Muslims: A study of the Islam Channel

A new report by Quilliam has found that the Islam Channel, the UK’s most watched Muslim TV channel, is sowing suspicion between different religious communities and promoting intolerance and prejudice.

The report, based on Quilliam’s recording and monitoring of the channel’s output over a three-month period, found that there were several key problematic trends in its output:

- Promotion of backward attitudes to women. The Islam Channel’s presenters and preferred guests repeatedly promote socially conservative, Wahhabi-influenced views of women, which see female freedom as a threat to social harmony.


- Intolerance towards other sects and religions. Religious preachers featured on Islam Channel programmes such as IslamiQA repeatedly make derogatory remarks to the followers of other forms of religious expression and urge viewers to reject the practices of non-Muslims and non-Wahhabi Muslims alike.


- Promotion of extremism. The Islam Channel has also promoted extremist individuals and groups, for instance, by advertising recorded lectures by Anwar al-Awlaki, the pro-al-Qaeda preacher, on the channel and allowing members and supporters of Hizb ut-Tahrir to host religious programmes. The Channel also uses the phrase ‘human bombs’ to describe suicide bombers.

The Islam Channel’s Chief Executive is Mohammed Ali Harrath who has been convicted in Tunisia on terrorism-related offences and who is the subject of an Interpol Red Notice. He was most recently arrested in relation to this in South Africa in January 2010. Harrath has regularly advised key parts of the British government, including the police force, on how they should tackle extremism and terrorism.

Quilliam calls on Ofcom, the UK broadcasting regulator, to hold a full investigation into the Islam Channel’s recent output.

Talal Rajab, the report’s author, says:
“Islam Channel is the most watched Muslim TV channel in the UK. Unfortunately during the three-month period that we monitored its output, it repeatedly promoted bigoted and reactionary views towards women, non-Muslims and other Muslims who follow different versions of Islam. Although the channel does not directly call for terrorist violence, it clearly helps to create an atmosphere in which religiously-sanctioned intolerance and even hatred might be seen as acceptable.”


“By promoting a single narrow version of Islam – namely Saudi Wahhabism – at the expense of more diverse and tolerant schools of Islamic thought, the Islam Channel is wasting an enormous opportunity to positively shaping British Islam. Young British Muslims need real answers on how to live as citizens in a pluralist, secular and diverse society. Unfortunately instead of providing useful guidance the Channel promotes an intolerant rigid and out-of-date form of Islam that is of no benefit to either Muslims or society as whole.”

The full report is available to download as a PDF here.

An executive summary is available here.


New Quilliam Report - Re-programming British Muslims: A study of the Islam Channel


Also
UK’s Islam Channel under investigation - The National Newspaper

[Hamza patterson]

Yeah, Mohammad Ali was questioned about it on HardTalk

BBC iPlayer - HARDtalk: Mohamed Ali Harrath

[abuhannah]

The QueerWilliams ain't worth my spit,lanatAllahalaihum..

[green musallah]

Nobody cares anymore queerlians. Personally was amazed that chelsea beat villa 7-1. Shame I was working all weekend, missed a some good football action....

[abuhannah]

chelsea beat villa 7-1.

O'Neil is a great manager but even he had to admit they were out played,after 3-1 they just gave up and took the licks,quite sad as villa is a decent side...

[Abu'l 'Eyse]

So it seems these doughnuts are trying to make out that certain positions are based upon extream wahabism. They are just aiding the distortion of the Deen of Allah Ta'ala.....What else can we expect from these dispicable creatures. Lets have a look:

1-The wife refusing the Husband sexual relations

Refuse relations with spouse

and from GF Haddad where he comments upons a book on women in Islam:

HUSBAND'S RIGHTS

1. HUSBAND'S DESIRES MUST BE MET AT ONCE
Comment: The true title of this section should be: “A spouse's sexual advances must be welcomed.”

Man's sexual needs are considered so urgent that it is better for food to burn in the oven than a man to burn in waiting for his wife to satisfy his desire. If she refuses, the angels of heaven will turn against her.

"The Prophet of Allah said: When a man calls his wife to satisfy his desire, let her come to him though she is occupied at the oven."[38]
38. Mishkat al-Masabih, English translation, Book I, Section 'Duties of husband and wife', Hadith No. 61.
(The above Hadith is agreed upon, that is, no scholar doubts its authenticity.)
Comment: All the commentators agree in that
(1) this hadith is hyperbolic and not to be taken literally;
(2) its gist is that the wife should not refuse her husband's advances, and
(3) the opposite is also established from the Qur'an: {turn not away (from a woman) altogether, so as to leave her (as it were) hanging} (4:129) and the Prophet approved Salman's word to Abu al-Darda': “_and your wife has a right over you.” (Sahih) This unanimously means cohabitation.
And al-Qurtubi said: “She has over him the same right of sexual cohabitation he has over her.” (Tafsir for 2:178).
The Prophet explicitly stipulated that a Muslim must seek his wife's permission even for coitus interruptus. Nothing near such respect for the feelings of one's wife near is found even at the peak of Judeo-Christian civilization.

"The messenger of Allah said: Whenever a man calls his wife to his bed and she refuses, and then he passes the night in an angry mood, the angels curse her till she gets up at dawn."[39]

39. Ibid., Hadith No. 54 (agreed upon). See also Bukhari, Arabic-English translation, vol. VII, Hadith no. 121.
Comment: The correct translation is “he goes to bed”, not “he passes the night”. Another wording in Bukhari and Muslim also makes abundantly clear that she must deliberately spend the night away from her husband's bed for this malediction to take place. There are just too many examples of faulty translations for the original writers to be trusted.

The understanding that man's sexual needs are more important than the woman's was not only believed by the early Muslims,

Comment: They no more believed this than they ignored the commands to respect a woman's sexual needs. This sensitivity and justice, by the way, is nowhere found in the early Christians and Jews.

but is also believed by modern-day Muslims. A contemporary scholar wrote:

"Allah the most high has fashioned the woman's psychological and physiological make up in such a way that man's pleasures are satisfied in her more than her pleasures satisfied in him. Not only that but she also finds her happiness in feeling so."[40]
40. Dr. Mohammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti, Ela kul Fataten Tu'min be-Allah, Mu'asasat ar_Risalah, Beirut, 1987, Eighth edition, p. 55.
Comment: The above is incoherent and incorrect, probably due more to a faulty translation than to anything Dr. Buti wrote. The writers multiply false premises and false assumptions then cite single, isolated views in support of broad statements about what “early Muslims” and “modern-day Muslims” believe.

Another contemporary scholar wrote:

"Sexual intercourse is an action, and the woman does not act."[41]
41. 'Abd ar-Rahman al-Gaziri, al-Fiqh 'ala al-Mazahib al-Arba'a, Dar al-Kutub al- 'Elmeyah, 1990, vol. 4, p. 7.
Comment: Once again this is a lie because it takes an original statement out of context to make it sound like something completely different.
Al-Jaziri originally said: “The Hanafis said that 'marriage' in the verse {until she marries another husband} [merely] means the contract, not intercourse, as marriage is attributed to the woman in that verse, and intercourse is an act while the woman is passive_”

The famous commentator Qortobi said:

"The woman was created so that man can rest in her ... for by her he gets rid of his sexual storm. The female sexual organ was created for men. For when Allah the most high said '(You) leave what your Lord has created for you of your wives?'[42] Allah made it known that that place of the woman was created from man for man's sake. So the woman must yield it whenever the husband calls her. If she refuses then she is an oppressor and in a grave position. Sufficient proof of this was reported from Sahih Muslim in the Hadith that says 'When a man calls his wife to his bed, and she refuses, the One Who is in the heaven will be angry with her until he [her husband] is pleased with her"[43]
42. The Qur'an, 26:166, Maulvi Mohammad 'Ali's translation. 43. Qortobi, commenting on Q 30:21.
Comment: It is also established from the Qur'an that the reverse is also true, since Allah Most High said: {They [your wives] are your garments and ye are their garments} (2:187) meaning rest, as in al-Tabari.
Similarly, if “The female sexual organ was created for men,” then the male sexual organ was created for women as established by the verse {Who abstain from sex, except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or (the captive) whom their right hands possess, for (in their case) they are free from blame} (23:5-6) i.e. they are blamed in all other cases.
And a husband who deliberately omits give his wife her right of intercourse is also an oppressor and in a grave position. The Prophet said that a man who disregarded the right of one of his two wives shall appear with one half of his body collapsed on the Day of Judgment. (Al-Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud, al-Nasa'i, and Ahmad.)

Comment on: The Place of Women in Pure Islam

So no promotion of "marital rape" there is adab for sexual relations and all muslims must adhere to it fufilling the rights of one's spouse be it the wife or the husband.

2-Travelling without a mahrem

Ruling on Women Travelling without a Mahram

Can a woman travel alone within her own city?

3-Marrying non-muslim women

Marrying non-Muslims: the legal ruling

so much for promoting "wahabism"..........bunch of liars

[Abu'l 'Eyse]

the report is a bliming joke to say the least, they cry about not allowing kissing the hand of the shaykh but want to dismantle the shariah and deen and prevent its implementation in muslim societies! these people are warped to say the least

[Hamza patterson]

Recent report by Quilliam on Islam Channel The Fakehead Report

[abdulrahman al muhajir]

after tackling the 'extremists' now its time for one moderate attacking another moderate. It was only a matter of time

[pakhtoon]

Cry some more.