BRITAIN’S leading Muslim TV channel was last night accused of encouraging “marital rape” and promoting hatred and intolerance.
Last night broadcasting watchdog Ofcom launched an investigation after being handed a major report by counter-terrorism think tank Quilliam on the London-based Islam Channel, which has a worldwide audience of two million.
The report claims the Islam Channel’s presenters and guests “regularly make derogatory statements about women and their role in society”.In one programme, a guest tells viewers that Muslim women cannot refuse their husbands’ sexual advances.
He says: “The idea that a woman cannot refuse her husband’s relations – this is not strange to a Muslim because it is part of maintaining that strong marriage.”
He said the concept of a woman’s “individual choice” was “something which is part of the Western culture, but not Islam”.
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