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Tom Holland Islam Doc on U.K.'s Channel 4 Draws Complaints

LONDON - A controversial TV documentary about the origins of Islam on Britain's Channel 4 has drawn about 1,200 complaints within a week of its broadcast last week.

Islam: The Untold Story from historian Tom Holland argued that there was little contemporary evidence about the Prophet Mohammed, among other things.

Around 1,000 complaints have directly reached Channel 4, while about 200 people have filed complaints with U.K. media regulator Ofcom, the Independent reported....

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