While I am a strong advocate for the death penalty, the call by this Islamic cleric for the killing of gay men and lesbians, and the desecration of their corpses, is absolutely outrageous. Thanks to Dorina Lisson for the heads-up on this appalling report.
CLERIC ADVOCATES DEATH PENALTY FOR SAME SEX MARRIAGE
“Homosexuality and lesbianism are just too dirty in the sight of Allah, those who engage in them deserve more than capital punishment. When they are killed, their corpses should also be mistreated.”
Vanguard
December 5, 2011
Malam Abdulkadir Apaokagi, an Abuja-based Islamic scholar, on Sunday in Abuja, called for death penalty for same sex marriage in Nigeria.
Apaokagi in a sermon at the weekly prayer session of Nasrul –lahi-L-Fatih Society of Nigeria (NASFAT), said gays in Nigeria were perverts who did not deserve to co-exist with right thinking and decent people.
He said gays were worse than murderers, and deserve stiffer penalty than those accused of killing fellow human beings.
“Homosexuality and lesbianism are just too dirty in the sight of Allah, those who engage in them deserve more than capital punishment. When they are killed, their corpses should also be mistreated.”
Apaokagi, who is the deputy chief Imam at the Abuja branch of NASFAT, said in his lecture entitled: “The position of Islam on gay marriage” that gay people were mentally unstable and could bring severe instability to the society in which they lived.
“None of them can pass a psychiatric test, because they are not normal,” he said.
The scholar’s sermon came against the background of a recent law passed by the Senate banning same-sex marriage and public display of affection by gays in Nigeria.
The bill, “Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) bill 2011” also prescribed 14 years jail sentence for convicted gays in Nigeria.
Quoting from the Quran, Apaokagi hailed the Senate for passing the law, saying that Allah decreed marriages only between members of the opposite sex.
“Any society that tolerates gay marriage would come to destruction the way God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for sodomy.
“They are criminals, Allah Himself describes them so, and it is great that the Senate has criminalised what they are trying to do.”
He urged the House of Representatives to take a cue from the Senate, and pass its own version of the bill without delay so that President Goodluck Jonathan could sign a harmonised version into law.
Apaokagi also urged Nigerians to ignore criticisms from the West, and come together as one to fight practices that might bring destruction to the country.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Vanguard is one of the leading newspapers in Nigeria.
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The level of oppression, violence, ignorance, stupidity, hatred, and suffering caused by fundamentalist Islam in the world today is reaching a breaking point. How long can we infidels put up with this? It seems that they just get stronger by the day. It seems that we all must either go back to the stone-age like them, or die. Their ultimate goal would be to see Islam as the predominant ruling force on the globe, with all us infidels either converted or destroyed. What a curse upon the human race.
AJ Honeylake, a PACOVILLA follower says:
“If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.” (Leviticus 20:13)
Ever wonder where they got the idea to execute gay men in Iran? Well, that’s not the Qu’ran. That’s the Bible. Milliennium-old religious-based bigotry is not exclusive to Islam. A lot of what we read in the Qu’ran is actually from the Bible. They share a lot of territory. The Qu’ran even mentions Jesus.
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