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Showing Original Post only (View all)Orlando played host to Muslim speaker’s call for death to gays, just weeks ago [View all]
Source: Fusion (ABC/Univision)
"DEATH IS THE SENTENCE" 6/13/16 6:11 PM
This story has been updated with new interviews.
On March 29, 2016
Farrokh Sekaleshfar a British-born medical doctor and Shia Muslim scholar was invited to speak at the Husseini Islamic Center just outside Orlando, Florida.
During his sermon, How to deal with the phenomenon of homosexuality, at the Sanford-based center, the scholar and sheikh described in characteristically sotto voce what it meant to do the compassionate thing for gay people:
Death is the sentence. Theres nothing to be embarrassed about this. Death is the sentence. He continued: We have to have that compassion for people. With homosexuals, its the same. Out of compassion, lets get rid of them now.
Portions of that sermon were captured by local TV station WFTV in the video report shown above, uploaded to YouTube by the Islamophobic group United West. It represents one particularly harsh Islamic perspective on gays one thats not shared widely by Muslims, particularly in the United States.
Gays Must Die Says Speaker At Orlando Mosque - WFTV 9 Orlando Report
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