Ban homophobic clerics from mosques, gay rights campaigners urge

Guardian ^ | Thursday 9 June 2011 | Riazat Butt

[presidio9]

Gay rights campaigners have urged mosque leaders in east London to ban homophobic clerics from using their premises, following a 21% rise in gay hate crime in the area.

Activists, including journalist Julie Bindel and Pride trustee Colm Howard-Lloyd, said some preachers at the East London Mosque and the London Muslim Centre had "created an atmosphere in which hate is socially acceptable; they have spread a message in which maiming and violence is the most dutiful, honourable, devout thing to do".

Their concerns follow the £100 fine given to Mohammed Hasnath, who put up "Gay-Free Zone" stickers in the area;

[presidio9]

[beethovenfan]

here we go - homos vs. muzzies - have at it.

[Mrs.Z]

Popcorn popping time. This is gonna be good.

[smalltownslick]

Won’t this be fun??

[ilovesarah2012]

We tried to tell them they wouldn’t get along.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

And so it begins...

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[Talisker]

Ban homophobic clerics from mosques, gay rights campaigners urge

Ah, finally - Gays versus Muslims: Political Correctness versus the 15th Century.

[presidio9]

American Exceptionalism 101

Lession 1: The 1st Amendment

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

[Borges]

15th century? Come on they aren’t THAT advanced.

[presidio9]

ping

[Gator113]

Fill the mosque’s with gays!!

I can support this.

[Sir Napsalot]

So nice to know that one side is a religion of peace. We’ve told that almost everyday.

So gay rights activists, how are you proposing to remove homophobic clerics from mosques?

[airborne]

When Christians object to homosexuality, we're attacked as homophobic haters and bigoted criminals.

When Muslims murder homosexuals, we're attacked as Islamophobic haters and bigoted criminals. It's just part of their culture, and we need to be more understanding.

I say let them both fight it out. And pass the popcorn!

[Sir Napsalot]

We’ve been told that almost everyday.

[Steve Van Doorn]

This is fantastic!

Being a leftist means your a sloooowwww learner

[onedoug]

Gays soon to be not so gay as Britain goes muslim.

[OldMissileer]

Popcorn popping time. This is gonna be good.

I was just gonna write the same thing.

For the first time the homos may start to get a taste of the real world. I wonder if they will actually learn from it though.

[lightman]

Ah, finally - Gays versus Muslims: Political Correctness versus the 15th 7th Century

Fixed it.

[mas cerveza por favor]

Let the PC brigades turn their cannons on a non-Christian religion for a change. Maybe these religions will question their alliance with the secular anti-Christ establishment.