A Muslim radio station that broadcast 25 hours of sermons by an al-Qaeda recruiter during Ramadan has been suspended.
Iman FM played a series of lectures by Anwar Al-Awlaki, an influential cleric called "the Bin Laden of the internet" before he was killed by a US missile drone strike in Yemen in 2011.
The hate preacher, who is said to have inspired terrorist atrocities such as the Charlie Hebdo massacre, could be heard calling for "holy war" on the Sheffield-based radio station on 14 June.
Ofcom suspended Iman FM's licence after receiving a complaint and concluding that Al-Awlaki's speeches "amounted to a direct call to action to members of the Muslim community to prepare for and carry out violent action against non-Muslim people".
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The watchdog said that the former al-Qaeda leader's talks breached their strict rules that ban hate speech unless it is justified by context.
They have given Iman FM's chief executive Mohammad Mughal 21 days to provide an explanation for the broadcast before the station is shut down.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/iman-fc-muslim-radio-station-sheffield-al-qaeda-anwar-al-awlaki-charlie-hebdo-hate-speech-jihadi-a7830256.html-----
I hope this is just a formality before the station is shut down forever.
