Zakir Naik, the founder of Peace TV, sanctioned the killing of apostates

An Islamic television station faces being stripped of its British broadcast licence after relaying hate speech against gay people and advocating the execution of magicians.

Four programmes on Peace TV breached broadcasting rules on incitement to crime, hate speech, abuse and offence, according to Ofcom, the media regulator.

They included a show called Valley of the Homosexuals in which gay people were described as “worse than animals” and more “corrupted and contaminated” than pigs. The presenter asserted that LGB people contracted disease “because they are homosexual” — an apparent reference to HIV.

Another programme featured a religious scholar justifying the death penalty against people accused of practising magic, known as Sahir.

“The correct reliable and majority opinion is that the punishment for a Sahir is