“If a man likes another man, it can happen, but if you go on to fulfil your desire, if it is proved, then there is a punishment to follow [. . .] There are some people who are attracted to donkeys but that does not mean it is right.”
These are the hate words of one Anjem Choudary, whom we blogged about last Saturday after a Standard article had drawn attention to his wish to see “the flag of Allah flying over Downing Street”.
Today, it’s the Daily Mail that is drawing attention to the madman’s words of vituperative hate for all things Western, under the headline, All homosexuals should be stoned to death, says Muslim preacher of hate.
The Mail says, “Under [sharia], adulterers and homosexuals would be killed by stoning. Asked if that would include anybody – even a Cabinet minister such as Business Secretary Lord Mandelson – Choudary responded with an astonishing diatribe.”
It then quotes the words that begin this post.
If gay people or anyone else were holding a press conference to denounce Muslims for being Muslims and practising Islam, would the police not be in there like a shot?
“If a man fancies the idea of Islam, it can happen,” one might have said. “But if you go on to fulfil your desire and practise Islam, and if it is proved, then there is a punishment to follow.
“There are some people who are attracted to all kinds of superstitions, but that does not mean it is right.”
The Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement’s Rev. Sharon Ferguson is quoted in Sam Greenhill’s Mail piece as saying, “This is appalling. The police should look very closely at what has been said to see if there is any action they should be taking.”
Quite. Having an opinion about homosexuality is one thing and I would defend the right of, say, a vicar to hold up the gay lifestyle against what he perceives to be biblical proscription of that lifestyle, and thus condemn the gay lifestyle. It’s up to him or her. It’s an opinion, and he/she wouldn’t, we assume, be recommending a rock-flinging death for gay people caught daring to love one another.
What this nutjob is doing is tantamount to incitement.
The press conference, in London, was arranged by Muslim extremists to justify their protest in Luton last week against soldiers returning home from Iraq.
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You know what, Andy? I think you might just have come up with a sequel to the Atheist Bus Campaign. Why not get leading gay groups to unite and hold just such a press conference, turning Choudary's hateful words inside out by substituting the word "Muslim" for "homosexual" etc etc. Gentlemen of the Press and PC Knacker of the Yard by invitation!
ReplyDeleteSuch a cunning stunt, at the Conway Hall perhaps, would highlight the scandal of Anjem Choudary getting away with Islamist hate speech, time and time again. It would also embarrass our spineless politicians, and endear the gay community to the wider population who are also sick and tired of this piss-taking Muslim creep.
If the organisers were to be arrested, so much the better - point proven!