Muslim cleric: Punish gay perverts

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Leading Islamist cleric Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi discusses punishments for gay 'offenders,' says 'homosexuals supported Kerry against Bush'
Yaakov Lappin



Top Muslim Brotherhood cleric Yusuf Qaradawi told Arabic satellite channel al-Jazeera that homosexuals were 'perverts' who deserve to be 'punished.'



During the interview, which aired last week, and made available by the MEMRI Arabic media translation service, Qaradawi discussed various punishments he said were appropriate for homosexuality, including being thrown from heights or burnings.



Qaradawi said that gays deserved "the same punishment as any sexual pervert - the same as the fornicator. The schools of thought disagree about the punishment. Some say they should be punished like fornicators... Some say we should throw them from a high place, like God did with the people of Sodom. Some say we should burn them, and so on. There is disagreement."

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1. This is absolutely shocking language coming from a Muslim cleric!!

:sarcasm:

It's only a matter of time before he starts picketing the funerals of Islamic martyrs, vis-a-vis Fred Phelps.

[Scurrilous]

2. Jewish, Arab religious leaders against Gay Pride

Rabbis, Arab-Israeli sheiks object to holding Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem; ‘if gays will dare approach Temple Mount during parade – they will do so over our dead bodies,’ Arab MK Sarsur says. Israeli rabbi: The feeling is that Jews disgrace Jerusalem's holiness with the government's encouragement

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3266361,00.html

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"Leading American Rabbi Yehuda Levin organized a Jerusalem conference attended by both Jewish and Arab religious leaders who expressed their staunch objection to holding the Gay Pride Parade in the capital.

The parade is scheduled to take place two months from now.

Among the participants were Arab-Israeli sheik and MK Ibrahim Sarsur, Tekoa Rabbi Menachem Froman and Arab MK Abas Zkoor.

The two leading Palestinian religious leaders, Sheikh Taysir al-Tamimi and Sheikh Hamad Bitawi, were denied entry to Israel but phoned in their objection to holding the event in Jerusalem."

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"Only the foreign press was invited to the current conference, but Rabbi Levin plans on another press conference in two weeks for the Israeli press, with the participation of religious leaders from the three religions in order to create a united religious front against the parade."

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3. And here I thought..."love will bring us together..."

Seems hate is the motivating factor to putting aside differences with one another.

[PatrioticLeftie]

4. Bigotry is not confined to any one religion

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5. No it is not, and even more sad....

...it seems to be the motivating factor in bringing 'rival' groups together!

[PatrioticLeftie]

6. Unfortunately

Hate brings some people together. But in doing so tears many others apart.

[Riverman]

7. Read Sam Harris's Book "The End of Faith" to see what the

Koran has to say what should happen to the infidels - the non-believers. Not just what they want to do to us perverts - of all kinds. Frightening! Of Course the Bible and the Talmud if read literally which all fundamentalist believers are committed to do, are just as scary. The problem, dear friends is fundamentalism of all faiths.

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8. Talk about intolerant and backward, this bozo makes Cheney

look positively progressive