Hate material 'in one in four UK mosques'

Material urging hatred of other religions can be found in mosques across Britain, most of it linked to Saudi Arabia, according to a new investigation.

Gordon Brown was challenged to raise the problem with King Abdullah when they hold talks in Downing Street tomorrow.

A year-long investigation by Policy Exchange, the centre-right think-tank, found that hate and separatist literature was available in one quarter of Britain's mosques and Islamic centres.

Researchers uncovered propaganda calling for homosexuals to be murdered, women to be subjugated and denouncing Jews and Christians as the enemies of Islam. A call was uncovered for jihad against "tyrants and oppressors", which is "best done through force if possible".

Many publications urged British Muslims to segregate themselves from non-Muslims and for "unbelievers" to be regarded as second class.

Most of the material is produced by agencies closely linked to the Saudi regime, according to the investigation. It included virulently anti-Semitic propaganda produced by the Saudi ministry of education.

Some of the literature discovered espoused the creation of a separate state for Muslims, governed by sharia law. "Saudi Arabia is the ideological source of much of this sectarianism," the study concluded.

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