(Jewish News) A UK-based Islamic radio station that aired a hate-filled sermon accusing Jews of “killing prophets” and being the “biggest enemies of humanity” just days after the Hamas massacres has launched a blistering attack on Ofcom — branding the regulator a “Zionist puppet” and “Islamophobic.”
Salaam BCR, a community station serving Bury, Greater Manchester, was fined £3,500 by Ofcom after broadcasting a 38-minute sermon by Pakistani imam Shuja Uddin Sheikh on 17 October 2023, ten days after Hamas’s mass slaughter in Israel.
The speech, recorded in Pakistan, was laced with classic antisemitic tropes. Sheikh accused Jews of “only protecting their own interests,” “instigating war,” and “strengthening their economy” in pursuit of a so-called “Greater Israel.” The rant, Ofcom concluded, amounted to antisemitic hate speech.
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