A London imam has sued the BBC for libel over a broadcast which he
claims meant he was a member of a “rogue’s gallery of extremists”.

Shakeel Begg, chief imam at Lewisham Islamic Centre, is suing about a
short segment of an interview on the Sunday Politics show in November
2013 featuring presenter Andrew Neil and Farooq Murad, who was at that
time head of the Muslim Council of Britain.

Neil identified the East London Mosque in Whitechapel as a venue for
a number of extremist speakers, and speakers who espoused extremist
positions, and said that Begg had spoken there that year and hailed
jihad as “the greatest of deeds”.