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‘Gays must be burned to death’
IOL.co.za 12 January 2012
By KATHERINE FAULKNER
Five Muslims who distributed leaflets calling for gay people to be executed have appeared in court accused of inciting hatred. One leaflet said the death penalty had been passed against all homosexuals and showed a mannequin hanging from a noose.
Another showed a figure burning in a lake of fire with a list of punishments for homosexual acts.
The five defendants, all from Derby, are the first to be prosecuted under new laws banning the stirring up of hatred due to sexual orientation.
Ihjaz Ali, 42, Razwan Javed, 28, Kabir Ahmed, 28, Umar Javed, 38, and Mehboob Hussain, 44, were arrested following complaints about leaflets distributed in Derby before a gay pride parade in July 2010.
The material was handed out in the street as well as posted through letterboxes.
The first, called Death Penalty?, claimed Allah permitted the destruction of gay people and "the only question is how it should be carried out”.
The second, called Turn or Burn, featured the figure in a blazing lake with the warning that the decriminalisation of homosexuality was "the root of all problems”.
A third, GAY - God Abhors You - told of severe punishment for homosexuals.
Bobbie Cheema, prosecuting, told Derby Crown Court the pamphlets were threatening, offensive, frightening and nasty and had been "designed to stir up hatred and hostility against homosexual people”. (...)
Posted January 12th, 2012 by pk
‘Gays must be burned to death’
IOL.co.za 12 January 2012
By KATHERINE FAULKNER
Five Muslims who distributed leaflets calling for gay people to be executed have appeared in court accused of inciting hatred. One leaflet said the death penalty had been passed against all homosexuals and showed a mannequin hanging from a noose.
Another showed a figure burning in a lake of fire with a list of punishments for homosexual acts.
The five defendants, all from Derby, are the first to be prosecuted under new laws banning the stirring up of hatred due to sexual orientation.
Ihjaz Ali, 42, Razwan Javed, 28, Kabir Ahmed, 28, Umar Javed, 38, and Mehboob Hussain, 44, were arrested following complaints about leaflets distributed in Derby before a gay pride parade in July 2010.
The material was handed out in the street as well as posted through letterboxes.
The first, called Death Penalty?, claimed Allah permitted the destruction of gay people and "the only question is how it should be carried out”.
The second, called Turn or Burn, featured the figure in a blazing lake with the warning that the decriminalisation of homosexuality was "the root of all problems”.
A third, GAY - God Abhors You - told of severe punishment for homosexuals.
Bobbie Cheema, prosecuting, told Derby Crown Court the pamphlets were threatening, offensive, frightening and nasty and had been "designed to stir up hatred and hostility against homosexual people”. (...)
Posted January 12th, 2012 by pk
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