I advise my relatives to remove the channels that spread atheism from their homes, but they make excuses by saying they need to watch the news!

Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: Many satellite channels broadcast atheism, shirk (associating partners with Allah), bid'ah (religious innovations), obscenity, and other such things. When I advise my relatives to fear Allah and remove these channels from their homes, they make excuses by saying they need to watch the news and news about Muslims. What is your advice to me in this matter?

Answer:
This is not what they intended. The news is available; it is on the radio, it is on Saudi television. The news comes in, and there is nothing wrong with it. But their intention is not to get the news; it is to get the confusion, the doubt, the deception, and the insults to Islam and the people of Islam that come with it. There is no power or strength except with Allah.
It is obligatory for the Muslim to keep his home free of these satellite channels. To the extent that they have established a channel for one who claims prophethood; they have established a channel for a man who claims prophethood; they have established a channel for sorcery, which is a clear denial of Allah the Exalted. They have established a channel for it. By this, they want to destroy Islam. The Muslim should be wary of this. The one who has faith in his heart and love for faith does not desire that this machine be in his home, or that this wicked screen be in his home, among his children, and in front of him. He does not accept this. The Muslim is jealous for his religion and his creed, and he is jealous for his children and his women regarding these matters.