A US-based Muslim preacher who allegedly advocated killing gay people is giving a lecture series in London after being allowed to enter the UK.
The Home Office has been urged to retract the visa of Hamza Sodagar who is giving a series of lectures in the capital city between October 3 to 12 .
Mr Sodagar appeared in an online video recorded in 2010 in which he details ways in which gay people can be ‘punished’ for their sexuality, including being beheaded or thrown off a cliff. He tells the audience: “If there’s a homosexual man, the punishment is one of five things. One, the easiest one may be, is cut their head off. The second is, burn them to death. Third, throw them off a cliff. Fourth, tear down the wall on them so they die. Fifth is a mix of all.”
He continued “We have a hadith on that. Now, whether someone’s going to accept that, that’s up to the jurists to read that and understand. There’s definitely some of those apply… maybe the combination [fifth option]. These are things which are there.”