An imam in Denmark has sparked outrage after being caught on camera preaching that women who commit adultery should be stoned to death.

Abu Bilal Ismail was secretly filmed while giving a lecture on the appropriate punishment for cheating wives and girlfriends at the Grimhoj Mosque in the city of Aarhus.

Broadcast on local TV2, Ismail says: 'If a married or divorced woman engages in fornication, and she is not a virgin, she should be stoned to death.

An imam in Denmark has sparked outrage after being caught on camera preaching that women who commit adultery should be stoned to death. Abu Bilal Ismail (pictured) was secretly filmed while giving a lecture

He added: 'If someone violates their marriage, either man or woman, they commit adultery and their blood is thus halal and they should be killed by stoning.

'If the woman is a virgin, the punishment is whipping.'

The imam is also seen advocating an eye-for-an-eye policy and saying: 'If someone kills a Muslim, then they should be killed.'

He tells his pupils that if anyone abandoned their religion they, too, should be killed.

In July 2014, Ismail again sparked controversy after another video appeared of him calling upon God to 'destroy the Zionist Jews.'

The latest footage has now led to renewed calls for the Danish Mosque to be closed down.

He gave the lecture at the Grimhoj Mosque in the city of Aarhus on the appropriate punishment for cheating wives and girlfriends. He tells his pupils that if anyone abandoned their religion they, too, should be killed

In September 2014, it made international headlines after coming out in support of terrorist group ISIS.

Social Democrats spokesman Dan Jorgensen told TV2: 'This is deeply, deeply unacceptable. That there are even people like this that have these kinds of ideas is insane.'

And Marcus Knuth from the ruling Venstre party told the broadcaster: 'What is so shocking is that there are so many cases involving this mosque and that they just keep coming. That is almost the worst thing – that they haven't learned anything and still practise these types of things and encourage this Stone Age behaviour.'