From: NewNowNext
A Muslim cleric who advocates for gay men to be executed has taken up a teaching engagement in London.
American-born Shaykh Hamza Sodagar will deliver a series of talks at the Islamic Republic of Iran school this month, which caters to children as young as 6.
Though Sodagar, a native of Washington D.C., describes himself as a “role model for young Muslims all around the world,” he recently counted off various ways to murder gay homosexuals.
“The easiest one, maybe, [is to] chop their head off. That’s the easiest,” he advised. “Second—burn them to death.”
“Third—throw ’em off a cliff. Fourth—tear down a wall on them so they die under that.”
He also suggested as a fifth option, “a combination of the above.”
LGBT rights activist Peter Tatchell is urging UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd to rescind Sodagar’s visa.
“In a free society, Hamza Sodagar has a right to believe that homosexuality is sinful but not to preach about ways to kill lesbians and gay men,” says Tatchell.
“Many people with far less extreme views, who have never advocated violence, have been banned from entering the UK.”
The Ahlulbayt Islamic Mission, which is sponsoring Sodagar’s lecture series, argues the preacher’s comments were taken out of context.
“Decontextualized excerpts of this series were used by right-wing media to suggest that Shaykh Hamza was calling for ‘the beheading and burning of homosexuals,'” the group said in a statement. “This is untrue and a mischievous and malicious accusation to make… [it] is laughable and absurd.”
So what was he saying, then?
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