Notice that he says that this is the ruling of all the schools of Sharia. His words, “This is the verdict of all the Sunni ulema,” are for some reason left out of the MEMRI translation, but I have put them back in, as he did say them, and it is an important point. The death penalty for homosexuality is, in other words, not an “extremist” view held by those Muslims who aren’t really Muslims, who loom so large in the Western consciousness.
The Qur’an contains numerous condemnations of homosexual activity: “And [We had sent] Lot when he said to his people, ‘Do you commit such immorality as no one has preceded you with from among the worlds? Indeed, you approach men with desire, instead of women. Rather, you are a transgressing people.’…And We rained upon them a rain [of stones]. Then see how was the end of the criminals.” (Qur’an 7:80-84)
Muhammad specifies the punishment for this in a hadith: “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, ‘Whoever you find doing the action of the people of Loot, execute the one who does it and the one to whom it is done.’” (Sunan Abu Dawud 4462)
And so one Muslim cleric, Sheikh Khalid Yasin, concluded: “God is very straightforward about this — not we Muslims, not subjective, the Sharia is very clear about it, the punishment for homosexuality, bestiality or anything like that is death. We don’t make any excuses about that, it’s not our law — it’s the Koran.”
“Tunisian Imam: Homosexuals Should Be Executed – Thrown from a High Place, Then Stoned to Death,” MEMRI, April 29, 2016:
In a Friday sermon delivered at the Essalem Mosque in Sfax, Tunisia, on April 29, Sheikh Fathi Rebaï rejected calls for rights for homosexuals, saying that “cattle are more honorable” than them. Citing a hadith according to which both parties to a homosexual act should be executed, Sheikh Rebaï said that the only disagreement among Sunni scholars was over the method of execution, with the Hanafi school advocating throwing them down from a high place and then stoning them to death. Imam Rebaï’s comments stirred criticism in the Tunisian press and social media in recent days.
Following are excerpts
Sheikh Fathi Rebaï: I am very sad to hear many voices in the Islamic countries calling for homosexuality. These calls are based on the notion of freedom. These voices call for homosexuals to get their so-called “rights.” Who are they imitating by advocating for these rights? They are imitating Western societies, which have been corrupted by depravity, and immersed in the filth of depravity and the quagmire of sin and debauchery.
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You imitate the foreigners and the non-Muslims in their perversions, their sins, and their debauchery. How I wish that we followed their example in their achievements, their precision, their professionalism, and their scientific, technological and industrial progress. If only we did that! But instead, we refrain from anything that would benefit us, and follow their example in everything that is harmful to us and threatens us. [Homosexuals] have managed to establish organizations and clubs that defend them, and demand representation for them in society and in public institutions. We have begun to hear voices calling for porn TV channels – as if we, as Islamic societies, do not have enough TV channels for whoredom, sins, and the spreading of depravity and abomination in society.
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All types of abomination are haram,but [homosexuality] is the ugliest and most repulsive of all abominations. It is worse than adultery. My brothers, this crime does not merely run counter to natural human disposition, but to the natural disposition of the universe and even that of animals. Have you ever seen a male animal copulating with another male? Have you ever seen a female animal copulating with another female? [The Quran says]: “Do you think that most of them hear and understand? They are only like cattle – nay, even further astray from the path.” Cattle are more honorable, because they do not act contrary to their natural disposition, with which Allah created them.
The [homosexuals] are mentally ill, to say the least. Until the late 1990s, Europe considered homosexuality to be a mental illness, which required treatment by a doctor. But in the late 1990s – around 1997 or 1996 – it changed the classification and no longer considered it an illness. How come? Because many [European] leaders and politicians are homosexuals. They want to spread homosexuality and corruption in the Islamic countries, in order to destroy our countries even more – as if the alcoholism, drug abuse, and lottery are not enough.
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Listen to this hadith, my brothers. The Prophet Muhammad said: “Whoever you find engaged in sodomy – kill both the man who does it and the man to whom it is done.” I will explain the hadith, so that I am not accused of belonging to ISIS, or of being a criminal, a terrorist, a takfirist, or a supporter of murder. This call to kill both the man who does it and the man to whom it is done is directed at the ruler who rules according to the shari’a. According to shari’a law, in the event of homosexual sex, both the man who does it and the man to whom it is done should die, if the latter has done it out of consent. The verdict for both is execution, because their sick souls cannot be cured. Their cure is execution. This is the verdict of all the Sunni ulema. The only disagreement among the ulema was about the method of execution. According to the Hanafi school, the ruler should give the order for the homosexual to be taken to a high place and thrown off from there, and then to be stoned to death.
nicu says
Sadly more and more Christian fanatics thinking and speaking the same way !
we should go back to pagan religion !
Ronie Peterson De Lima Silva says
You are retarded? Where that Christians speak so? His leftist imbecile.
Mike says
Google Kevin Swanson. Note that Ted Cruz appeared on the stage with him.
gravenimage says
What Christians are talking about stoning gay people to death?
Angemon says
See? Diversity! Who says islam is a monolith?…
miriamrove says
Mean while Saudi Arabia is gay capital of the world. M
Angemon says
As Pat Condel put it, “the country with one king and millions of queens” 😀
gravenimage says
You beat me to it, Angemon–I posted my comments below before reading your post.
Yes–method of murder is their only disagreement.
Champ says
Juxtapose this evil teaching and practice from what Jesus Christ taught:
“…He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” — John 8:7
Zeke Zick says
The “Prophet” of Islam will kill a homosexual for their sins, while Christ died to obtain forgiveness for a homosexual sins.
Jesus paid it all-all to Him I owe
Rev g says
The contrast is amazing, for those with eyes to see.
Lizzy says
Homosexuals do not increase the tribes, an obligation for muslims. But, in overpopulated countries where the lands cannot sustain the growing populations, homosexuals are doing a kindness by not bringing sick and hungry children into a life of starvation and misery.
Zeke Zick says
Thinking like yours gave us Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood, Abortion/50 million dead babies, and Adolf Hitler.
Free Market Capitalism will solve a Countries problems, without the abomination.
Kepha says
You may be right, Zeke. I lived many years in Taiwan, where there were 23 millions crammed into a space somewhere in the neighborhood of West Virginia or New Jersey size. The standard of living was clearly higher than many much less populous countries.
LR says
Zeke,
Sanger helped a lot of women. So does Planned Parenthood.
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Education, and a woman having an educated say over her reproductive life is still key. Too many Christians are more upset about zygote abortions, than about all the kids being seriously harmed, or ‘aborted’ from abuse.
If one cares about biodiversity, we currently are an overpopulated, and over consumptive species.
Rev g says
Kool-Aid, anyone?
gravenimage says
Tunisian Imam: Homosexuals should be stoned to death
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What–he doesn’t think they should be thrown from high buildings?
Who says Shari’ah law is monolithic? sarc/off
ECAW says
It’s both graven. Wouldn’t want to take any chances would you?
“….The Sahaabah [companions of Mohammed] were unanimously agreed on the execution of homosexuals, but they differed as to how they were to be executed. Some of them were of the view that they should be burned with fire, which was the view of ‘Ali (may Allaah be pleased with him) and also of Abu Bakr (may Allaah be pleased with him). And some of them thought that they should be thrown down from a high place then have stones thrown at them. This was the view of Ibn ‘Abbaas [the cousin of Mohammed] (may Allaah be pleased with him)” Ahmad (2915).
linnte says
Has anyone noticed the WAY they want to kill homosexuals is similar to the temptation of Jesus by Satan? “Cast yourself off this cliff and surely the Angels will save you”. This is a blatant mockery of Jesus by Muslims.
Kepha says
Except that Jesus was not a homosexual.
linnte says
Which is why it is a HUGE slam! It mocks the Divinity of Jesus. I hate Islam!
ECAW says
Kepha – how do you know?
Kepha says
Our next POTUS, Hillary Rodham Clinton, has said that religious bodies must be made to accept homosexuality. This individual Christian, while praying for the repentance and conversion of those beset by homosexuality (as well as for those beset by other sins), will not accept homosexuality. It is indeed an offense against nature and a corrupt fruit of idolatry.
Robert, apologies beforehand if my anti-homosexuality rants get you closed down after 01/20/17.
Rev g says
The answer to your dilemma is simple:
TRUMP 2016!
ECAW says
Kepha – if it is an offence against nature it is indeed odd that it is so widespread throughout nature.
Rev g says
That is untrue. While there are claims to the effect of your statement, even those making those claims admit that same-sex orientation in the animal kingdom is rare.
Jay Boo says
Kepha said,
“This individual Christian, while praying for the repentance and conversion of those beset by homosexuality (as well as for those beset by other sins), will not accept homosexuality. It is indeed an offense against nature and a corrupt fruit of idolatry.”
Sorry Kepha,
I gotta say it.
I have known many conservative Christians.
“praying for the repentance and conversion” is what they typically say publically.
Privately many confide that they want gays to burn in hell and to be the one to light the match.
Then of course there is Ted Haggard
He preached against homosexuality —- however……..
I will let him tell it in his own words
Guest says
I am not against gays, but I don’t celebrate them if they want to be gay that’s fine, but they don’t deserve to die. Humans aren’t animals, and we aren’t perfect. The radicals expectations are too high and unreasonable. We must protect our fellow man.
And we’re does he get off saying they should only imitate the west’s technologies? Last time I check Islam doesn’t adapt it stays the same no matter how better off they’d be.
Westman says
A serious shortcoming of marginal intelligence is that it is unable to recognize that it is marginal. A Forest Gump realizes there is a problem. Sheikh Fathi Rebaï does not recognize that he is speaking ignorantly.
Quote: “Have you ever seen a male animal copulating with another male? Have you ever seen a female animal copulating with another female? ”
Ethologist Jonathan Balcombe stated that female bonobos rub their clitorises together rapidly for ten to twenty seconds, and this behavior, “which may be repeated in rapid succession, is usually accompanied by grinding, shrieking, and clitoral engorgement”; he added that it is estimated that they engage in this practice “about once every two hours” on average.
“Bonobo males occasionally engage in various forms of male–male genital behavior.”
I suppose this brilliant fellow has never seen a Morgan Cow, a female, mounting a female because it identifies with being male. It can happen when there are fraternal twins and the female is affected by the male’s testosterone during gestation. The notion that all humans are born with typical sexuality is, likewise, simply an unproven assumption.
Our “Sheik” is too lazy to even check on the internet to see if his ideas are correct. With modern communication, ignorance will be found out within minutes of its utterance.
LR says
Yep, those bonobos are havin’ lot’s of stress relief, and apparently, lot’s of fun!
mortimer says
Sheikh Khalid Yasin sounds like a comic delivering the punchline…obviously he thinks murder is humorous:
“God is very straightforward about this — not we Muslims, not subjective, the Sharia is very clear about it, the punishment for homosexuality, bestiality or anything like that is death. We don’t make any excuses about that, it’s not our law — it’s the Koran.”
Islam’s leaders find murdering Gays to be funny.
He continues: ” many [European] leaders and politicians … want to spread homosexuality and corruption in the Islamic countries, in order to destroy our countries even more – as if the alcoholism, drug abuse, and lottery are not enough.”
More Islamic Melodrama and Victimology. Won’t they stop destroying Muslim countries EVEN MORE?
Muslims never destroy their own countries unassisted…it’s always the fault of the Jews or kafirs, etc.
Arul says
“Homosexual should be stoned to death”
He should go and preach this in Afghanistan. Also how come the same homosexuality is allowed in their heavenly brothel ?
common sense says
How many middle eastern Muslim women were stoned to death in 2016 for ‘adultery’? Some of which are actually raped and then blamed for it then buried to their waist and stoned. Maybe Islam for account for this since it is part of their system of punishment by way of the Quran and not considered an actual crime and is therefore under reported as a crime against humanity. The absence of our POTUS on this problem is just as big. Wasting my time to address what this twit thinks he knows about the social perspective & psychology behind sexual deviancy and homosexuality. Many good points were already made in the comments.
Yasin – ” How I wish that we followed their (western) example in their achievements, their precision, their professionalism, and their scientific, technological and industrial progress”
Yeah so do we!
Dennis says
Strange isn’t it! When I was young and lived in Iran and Egypt men were coming onto me. They even offered me money for sex. I often laugh when these religious leaders blame homosexuality on western influences!