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Has anyone heard about the fake sheikh story and Islam Channel
I heard about it on islam Channel itself. The programme "Week In Review". on it Muhammed Ali, the CEO of Islam channel was on. He was commenting on what had been in the News Of The World
Apparently the "Fake Sheikh" is a pakistani from Lahore, goes by the name of Mahmood Mazar. He tried to do something on islam channel, but he got caught. basically he had several meetings with Mohammed Ali. Mohammed Ali said he was at first suspicious, because usually Mohammed Ali has to go around looking for volunteers or people to come on Islam Channel, and has to beg them, but in this case this person had come on free of will and was begging to be on. Mohammed Ali said however he thought nothing of it as he thought he may be one of the generous muslims of the ummah.
But Muhammed Ali's suspicious rose when the Fake sheikh visisted mohammed Ali while he was praying, and at seeing this he wenty to the toilet, came out immediately, and joined in the prayer. Mohammed Ali commented on this saying the man did not do wudhu, and probably assumed all muslims do is go toilet and then pray. (lol i thought it was quite funny myself)
Then George galloway had a meeting with muhammed Ali and he saw the Fake Sheikh and realised who he was and told mohammed Ali.
http://www.respectcoalition.org/?ite=1027
I don't quite know what's happened since. Mohammed Ali said he can't say much due to legal reasons, i think they might be pursuing this in court. They contacted News of The world anyway, and basically they have all of the Fake sheikhs details, his pictures address everything. They are contemplating exposing these details. But Muhammed Ali argued that they are unlikely to do this as News of The World contacted them and said not to, as the guy has humiliated several people, and feel his life may be put in danger.
So mohammed Ali said although the events that had taken place were against the teachings of Islam, he said they themselves shoudl act accordingly with islamic ethics, and since it is likely to endanger the guys life they are unlikely to expose his details
Anyway, what do you guys think. i personally agree with the stance Mohammed Ali is taking, although the Fake sheikh has ticked several people before, it would be bad if his life was put in danger. Theres a poll going on on islamchannel
www.islamchannel.tv on whether the details should be exposed or not
At the same time though i would encourage the guy to not try anything in future against any muslims anywhere, otherwise his details will be exposed. i think thats fair. I don't know the reasons behind this attempted tick, ut from what Muhammed Ali was speculating at was they were trying to catch muslims promoting terrorism. Has anyone else heard any more about this