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Osama Saeed – Against Prejudice, Discrimination and Homosexuality

Brett on Harry’s Place has noticed yet another scandal from Osama Saeed – on his blog back in 2006 he recommended the unpleasant anti-gay site Eye on ‘Gay Muslims’ as a blog “[w]ell worth checking out”. Eye on ‘Gay Muslims’ (I am repelled as I type those scare quotes) is a site written by a chap [...]
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The Scottish Islamic Foundation – definitely not party political

This is a guest post by Al-Qanaas Al-Masri **** The Scottish Islamic Foundation, a hard-line Islamist outfit run by two former Muslim Association of Britain spokesmen, was today taken to task by the Scottish Herald newspaper over its half-baked plans to hold a conference in the Gulf to promote Scotland. The article quoted Omar Shaikh, a board member [...]
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Homosexuality in Islam

One of the bizarre hypocrisies of modern Britain is that criticising people who claim religious sanction for homophobia can be labeled bigotry but, at all other times, homophobia is the unacceptable bigotry. I have always attempted to square this circle by drawing a line between those who say we are all sinners and homosexuality is a [...]
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