Oh yes...it's the messenger's fault...

Have the police gone wacky in the UK???

Police investigating allegations of Islamic extremism arising from a Channel 4 documentary have instead turned on the broadcaster, accusing it of "distorting" Muslim preachers' speeches.

Channel 4 has been reported to broadcasting watchdog Ofcom for "heavily editing" the words of Islamic imams to give them more sinister meaning in Dispatches: Undercover Mosque.

The official complaint by police is all the more remarkable because officers were originally focusing on whether the sermons of three of the preachers shown merited prosecution for inciting terrorism or racial hatred.

West Midlands Police launched an eight-month inquiry after the programme's secret filming depicted radical preachers at British mosques calling for the West to be "taken over" by Muslims.

One was shown glorying in the Taliban's murder of British Muslim soldier Jabron Hashmi in Afghanistan, saying: "The hero of Islam is the one who separated his head from his shoulders."