The Broadcasting Commission has ruled that the Maldives Broadcasting Corporation (MBC)’s televising of a sermon by Jamiyyathul Salaf preacher Sheikh Adam Shameem Ibrahim did not violate any regulations.
The MBC’s chairman Ibrahim Umar Manik along with members of the Broadcasting Commission were summoned before Parliament’s Independent Institutions Committee, following complaints by MPs of the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) that the sermon infringed the rights of the party’s presidential candidate.
“We definitely do not consider [televising the sermon] as anti-campaigning against a particular candidate using religion. [But] around 11:35pm, because his talk was changing a little, we stopped the live [broadcasting],” Manik told the committee.
In a brief statement the Broadcasting Commission declared today that the state broadcaster had not violated the broadcasting code of ethics by airing the sermon.
In the sermon, titled ‘Al Andalus’, Sheikh Shameem drew comparisons between the Maldives and factors he claimed led to the collapse of the medieval Islamic state that occupied much of Spain, Portugal, Andorra and southern France.
“In the struggle among political parties to come to power, we are seeing dangerous parallels with the real reasons why Andalus fell: seeking help from non-Muslim leaders, bringing in their power and companies to our country. It is not prohibited to have non-Muslim labourers, but if we let any non-Muslim entities exert their power, even in business, over Muslims in our land, that is the end of us,” Shameem said.
“Some people tell us that despite supporting a certain politician, their faith cannot be changed, although they say they know [the politician] does not believe in Allah. I am very happy that there are people with such strong faith among us. It is indeed an extraordinary man who can hold onto his faith while being with a kafir, an infidel who commits sinful acts and uses intoxicating substances.
“However, he used to say there will be no way any other religion can be practised here, but his tune has changed. Today he says that despite churches being built, his faith will personally not change. That people of other religions should also be able to live here freely and be granted rights as Islam is a peaceful, just and caring religion. This is very true, but what he wants is a horrible result. He wants to challenge Allah about the justice in our religion.
“This country will have a dark future if we allow the police and army to be exposed to the training sessions given by non-Muslims, outright kafirs, in the guise of professional development. The kafirs will then have an opportunity to make the police and army hate Islam,” he preached.
Read the translation of the sermon
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I used to believe that you contain these guys by embracing them, give them a little authority and they moderate their approach, I naively believed.
But if you give them a small taste of power, they become hungry for the whole damned world! They resort to every act of defamation, terror, violence, inhumane brutality to win absolute power – even against – nay – especially against the one that patronized them in the first place!
Look what they are doing to MDP Nasheed, for example. He gave them more power than what they ever had, and he is their main victim!
PPM are playing a dangerous game patronizing them
Al Andalus is the southern most district of Spain, not the whole Iberian peninsula. When muslims ruled the district of Andalus, Jews ofcourse held prominent positions but christians were actively prosecuted, obviously because the soutern muslim district was at constant war with their northern neighbours. When Andalus fell Large percentage. Of muslims migrated down south into Moorish territories, the spephardi jew prosecuted for Muslim collaboration scattered as well.
Today spain hosts a large population of Muslims from Mahgreb countries, not only in the district of andalus but the whole of spain.
I think there are more muslims now than ever before in the iberian peninsula. Don't you think the muslims are advancing and winning.
This shameem or whatever fellow is a joke, but a dangerous joke corrupting the feeble minded with concocted religious rhetoric.