GMB star Adil Ray hauled in by bosses after appearing to back Sharia law in New York after mayor Zohran Mamdani’s win

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00:00Do you remember when we were told this was a dangerous conspiracy theory?

00:05I look at London where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor,

00:09and it's been so changed.

00:12Now they want to go to Sharia law.

00:15Well, step forward.

00:17Good morning, Britain host Adil Ray.

00:19He posted this on social media yesterday.

00:22Some say Mamdani, who's the new mayor of New York, may implement Sharia law.

00:27He might.

00:28Despite the heart of Sharia is social justice, welfare, fairness, charity and cohesion,

00:33most Muslim countries operate a hybrid of Sharia and civil law,

00:37are slowly reforming and abandoning unethical practices.

00:40Despite the West's portrayal, gosh, you know what?

00:44Adil Ray's changed his tune, hasn't he?

00:46Remember now, there's always a tweet.

00:48There's always a tweet.

00:49Here it is.

00:50He says, the EDL are about as insignificant as those Muslims who call for Sharia law.

00:54I have never heard of any of them.

00:58Well, maybe Adil needs to look a bit harder, because there was actually a group called Sharia for UK

01:03and Islam for UK, and it was one of many front organisations used by the radical Islamist network Alma Jeroon,

01:10and that was in the United Kingdom.

01:12The group was led by the extremist preacher Anjum Chowdhury,

01:15and advocated for the implementation of Sharia law right across the UK.

01:20They actually called for various things.

01:21One, capital punishment.

01:23They explicitly called for the death penalty for offences such as leaving Islam and also adultery.

01:28By the way, they wanted to kill you by stoning, in case you're wondering.

01:31Physical punishments.

01:33They advocated for severe physical punishments, such as flogging or lashing for offences like drinking alcohol.

01:39They also supported punishments like chopping people's limbs off for theft.

01:43Segregation of the sexes.

01:44You see, tonight we've got a wonderfully mixed audience.

01:46Not under the Sharia, though, of course.

01:49Establish a caliphate as well, so that's nice just to round it off.

01:52And actually, polling data from 2024 revealed that 32% of British Muslims favour the implementation of Sharia law in the UK.

02:01Well, Adil Ray then doubled down.

02:03He said, I'm not actually suggesting that Mamdani would implement Sharia law,

02:07but many of the issues he campaigned for are also some of the positive values of Sharia that Muslims try to live by.

02:13OK, some countries with Sharia law then.

02:17So we've got Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.

02:22Do we think that Adil might want to leave his comfortable London TV studio to go to live in any of those countries?

02:29I'm not really sure he will.

02:30Another country, of course, is Nigeria.

02:32Twelve northern states have just started implementing Sharia law.

02:36What else is happening in Nigeria, Adil?

02:38Oh, yeah, there are reports of Christians being slaughtered en masse.

02:41Now, Adil Ray might claim that true Sharia has never actually been tried.

02:46You know, like what communists say about their ideology.

02:48Well, given the amount of child rape, cousin marriage, female genital mutilation, stonings,

02:52beheadings, chopping off of limbs, persecution of gay people and terrorism in those countries,

02:58I think where it has been tried, I think we might swerve it over here.

03:02Thanks, Adil.

03:03But he's a presenter on ITV's Good Morning Britain.

03:06The same programme...

03:08Well, this happened to Piers Morgan, didn't it?

03:09...continue to trash her.

03:12OK, I'm done with this.

03:13No, no, no.

03:13Sorry, no.

03:14Do you know what?

03:15That's pathetic.

03:15You can trash her, mate, but not my own stuff.

03:16No, no, no, no.

03:17See you later.

03:17I'm being...

03:18Sorry, can't do this.

03:19This is absolutely diabolical behaviour.

03:23Well, he left because he offended Meghan Markle.

03:27And reportedly, ITV were worried about markets and advertising implications,

03:32commercial implications, because of what he said.

03:34But it seems that Adil Ray can try and promote Sharia law, and he just keeps his job.

03:39No commercial pressure there.

03:41No pushback.

03:41No lefties kicking off.

03:43No crisis meetings with ITV execs.

03:45What a strange, strange country we live in.

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