British police refer mosque documentary to watchdog

BRITISH police yesterday have made an official complaint to the country’s television regulator, saying a documentary about British mosques had featured misleading footage.

The Channel 4 Dispatches programme Undercover Mosque, broadcast in January, purported to feature “chilling sermons” from Saudi-trained preachers, secretly recorded by an undercover reporter.

The programme’s website said: “Dispatches reveals how a message of hatred and segregation is being spread throughout the UK and examines how it is influenced by the religious establishment of Saudi Arabia.”