18 December 2012

Noor TV up for Ofcom sanctions after presenter preaches that those showing disrespect to Mohammed should be killed

Ofcom asked the translator of the transcript to summarise the content of the whole programme, review the word for word translation of relevant sections, and revise it as necessary.

A copy of the second, revised transcript was then sent to the Licensee, whose solicitor replied, “Our clients have reported they see no problem with your transcript.

”At approximately one hour and 18 minutes into the programme Mr Nazimi answered a question from a caller, who was identified as “brother Yasir Nahif” (“Mr Nahif”), who asked:

“What is the punishment for the individual who shows disrespect for Prophet Muhammad?”

In response to the question from Mr Nahif, we noted the following remarks made by Mr Nazimi:

“There is no disagreement about this [the punishment]; there is absolutely no doubt about it that the punishment for the person who shows disrespect for the Prophet is death. No one [among the Islamic scholars] disagrees about this. No one disagrees about this. See p18 of pdf. [Ofcom] Read more