Mick Hartley

Here's former Ampleforth schoolboy Anthony Green, now Abdul Rahim Green, and, as you'll hear, he just hasn't been able to shake those Catholic obsessions:

The hellfire is a place of the most extreme suffering, the most extreme pain of every level that you can imagine – physical, mental, and spiritual pain and suffering and torment. It is a place where Allah will burn the skins of the people, and then he will recreate their skins, and burn the skins again, so that the people in there will taste the punishment. It is a place of heat, a place of pain, a place of suffering. The people will cry in agony for water. They will cry for a drink – something to cool them – and they will be given water, they will be given a drink, but it is boiling water that will scald their faces and burn their insides.

They will drink from a river, a river that is made from the pus that flows out of the wounds of the people of the hellfire. The wounds of the people of the hellfire will ooze pus, and this pus will gather together to form a river, and this is all they will have to drink. And their food will be the tree of Zakum, a tree the fruits of which are like the heads of devils. This tree is so bitter that if the people try to eat it, they can’t eat it. But they will force themselves, because there is nothing else to eat in the hellfire – a place where the people will neither live, nor will they die, a place where the people will fall into despair, arguing with each other, admonishing each other, criticizing each other. The fire will surround them in every place. The smallest punishment of the hellfire is that a person will wear a pair of sandals of fire, and their brain will boil….

Well, you get the picture. I like that this is broadcast on Peace TV - the "24 Hour Islamic Spiritual Edutainment Satellite TV Channel".

What they say about Green:

• He was educated at a famous Roman Catholic Monastic School called Ampleforth College and went on to study history in the London University. However, he left his education unfinished.
• He was dissatisfied with Christianity since the age of eight.
• He was practising Buddhism for nearly three years though he never formally embraced it.

I think I can understand why Buddhism may not have appealed. And I can believe this:

He is well known for his efforts at the renowned "Speaker’s Corner" in London’s Hyde Park.

We've come across the founder and president of Peace TV, Dr Zakir Naik, before. That video's no longer available, but here he is, on the subject of 9/11, explaining how "it is a blatant, open secret that this attack on the Twin Towers was done by George Bush himself".