The TV censor Ofcom has announced that it is investigating Peace TV over a programme with an islamic preacher saying that fathers should push daughter's into marriage. During an interview on religious discussion show Marriage and Divorce, Haitham al-Haddad, a Saudi-born Islamic preacher, said fathers should push and convince their daughters to get married. He also suggested women who were unmarried in their thirties would not receive good proposals in the amount and qualities. (Of course people have been citing the traditional adage for a long while before Peace TV turned up:
And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may forever tarry). Haddad has previously been widely criticised for calling homosexuality an evil crime - and showing his apparent support for female genital mutilation.
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