The second show in the series is due to air tonight on BBC One at 9pm, but aired last week on BBC Three following the showing of the series opener.
Last week's episode of 'Spooks' on BBC One, starring Matthew McFadyen, drew 7.8m viewers, a 35% share of the audience. The drama has been highly successful for the BBC and is likely to be recommissioned for a third series.
The BBC said it had received complaints, concerned about its content, after the show aired on its digital channel BBC Three. The story is based around a Birmingham mosque, which is taken over by an extremist group recruiting young men to train as suicide bombers to blow up British cities.
However, the show is inspired by the events at Finsbury Park Mosque, which was also taken over by Muslim radicals who are accused of supporting terror and has contributed to a lot of bad press surrounding the Muslim community following September 11.
Shoe bomber Richard Reid, now serving a life sentence for trying to blow up a passenger plane heading for the US, attended the mosque in north London, and it is also strongly linked to controversial cleric Abu Hamza.
The episode also follows the first case of British Muslims recruited by terrorists to be suicide bombers in Israel. The bombers, who were from Bradford, attempted to blow up innocent Israeli civilians at a railway station.
The chairman of the Birmingham Central Mosque, Mohammed Naseem, told the Evening Standard that the programme "maligns Muslims in Birmingham and elsewhere".
The Muslim Public Affairs Committee has called for the show to be pulled saying it could put Muslims in the UK in danger. A spokeswoman said the programme "stigmatises an entire community".
A spokeswoman for the BBC said the broadcaster had no plans to pull the show.
She said: "While we are mindful of audiences' sensitivites, there are no plans at this stage to cancel the screening of episode two of 'Spooks' on June 9."
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