This is from The Boston Phoenix, and if you're from Massachusetts then you know the Phoenix is good for only two things. Hyper-left wing politics and hookers (not kidding, their classified section is like a pimp on paper).....
Outside observers have been quick to criticize any signs of anti-Semitism connected to the new Roxbury mosque. But there has been little or no public comment about the virulent homophobia that can be found within the Islamic Society of Boston (ISB) and the Muslim American Society of Boston (MAS-Boston) communities. (the mosque is affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood via the MAS -ed.)
BU's Stephen Young surveyed 50 local ISB and MAS-Boston members for a just-published dissertation on the ISB. They were asked on a numerical scale how strongly they agreed or disagreed with the statement: "Homosexuals are hardly better than criminals and ought to be severely punished." Rather than rejecting this extremist sentiment, the average response fell in the middle. The Arabs among those surveyed were most likely to agree.
"These things are settled in Islam," says Talal Eid, an imam in Quincy who is considered relatively moderate. "No Muslim group is going to say, 'We are going to teach that it is okay for people to be gay and lesbian.' That is not going to happen."
......Until recently, the top navigational button on the left side of the Web site touted "12 fatwas on homosexuality." Earlier in the year, a site visitor posed a question about beheading homosexuals. In response, the director of the Islamic Center of South Plains, in Lubbock, Texas, posited that, given the deaths from HIV/AIDS, "those promoting this sin are in fact committing a crime against humanity." He concluded that beheading and stoning are not called for; rather, the proper response to sodomy is "the lashing of the perpetrator one hundred times in a public place."
Quick reminder: The Roxbury Mosque blasts the Islamic call-to-prayer several times a day from its minaret (even though they promised they wouldn't)....I know, Muslims lied to us?....
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