Islamic scholar in homosexuality comments row leaves Australia

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

World | Tue Jun 14, 2016 9:11am EDT

Islamic scholar in homosexuality comments row leaves Australia

SYDNEY | BY JANE WARDELL

A British Islamic scholar who toured Orlando this year and had preached in 2013 that "death is the sentence" for homosexual acts left Australia on Tuesday after the government launched an "urgent" review of his visa because of his comments.

Farrokh Sekaleshfar, a senior Shi'ite Muslim scholar, was giving a series of lectures at an Islamic center in Sydney on the topic of spirituality.

Sekaleshfar said in a lecture in Michigan in 2013 that in an Islamic society, the death penalty should be carried out for homosexuals who engaged in sodomy.

"Out of compassion, let’s get rid of him now, because he’s contaminating society," Sekaleshfar said in a talk at that time, according to a recording available online.

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Sekaleshfar told the Australian Broadcasting Corp that his decision to leave was voluntary and that he had not been asked to go by the government. The network showed footage of him entering Sydney airport, and said he was flying to Dubai.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-preacher-visa-idUSKCN0Z00F1

[trotsky]

1. "in an Islamic society, the death penalty should be carried out for homosexuals"

I am confused, because some people are telling me that religion has nothing to do with homophobia.

[Bluenorthwest]

2. This is all coincidence and clearly can't have any sort of connection to recent events.

Everyone knows that religious hate speech calling for murder is perfectly safe, real life violence never results from such devout sermons, that's not possible. It's just a big coincidence that this hate monger was just in Orlando.