This piece unwittingly reveals how Islamic supremacists attempt to deceive unbelievers about Islam. Imad Enchassi, senior imam and founder of the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City, “said while Muslims look at homosexuality as a sin, they recognize that they should ‘resent the sin and hug the sinner and be loving to the sinner as much as we can.'”
Enchassi thus gives no hint that Islam mandates that homosexuals be put to death. He instead gives the impression that just the opposite is the case: that Islam teaches that while homosexuality is a sin, one should be kind to homosexuals. In reality, the Qur’an says: “If two men among you are guilty of lewdness, punish them both. If they repent and amend, leave them alone; for Allah is Oft-returning, Most Merciful.” (4:16) The Qur’an also depicts Allah raining down stones upon people for engaging in homosexual activity: “We also sent Lot. He said to his people: “Do you commit lewdness such as no people in creation committed before you? For you practise your lusts on men in preference to women: you are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds….And we rained down on them a shower of brimstone: Then see what was the end of those who indulged in sin and crime!” (7:80)
Muhammad makes clear that Muslims should be the executors of the wrath of Allah by killing gays. A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “If you find anyone doing as Lot’s people did, kill the one who does it, and the one to whom it is done.” (Abu Dawud 38:4447) And: “Stone the upper and the lower, stone them both.” (Ibn Majah 3:20:2562)
While Enchassi tries to cover this up, Adam Soltani, executive director of the Hamas-linked Council on American Islamic Relations-Oklahoma chapter, lets it slip that Allah commands that homosexuals be put to death when he says: “Regardless of what religion says about homosexuality, we uphold the sanctity of human life. It’s the utmost priority, so protecting human life is a priority.” Why would the “sanctity of life” come into play in this at all, if all Muslims are supposed to do is “hug the sinner and be loving to the sinner as much as we can”?
Enchassi, of course, is borrowing from Christian concepts — hate the sin, love the sinner — to whitewash Islam’s death penalty for homosexuality. He is being actively deceptive: his mosque, after all, has taught the caliphate and the destruction of the U.S. and Israel. And the Muslim who beheaded one of his coworkers in Oklahoma in 2014 frequented that mosque.
Soltani, on the other hand, lets the mask slip. And in doing so, he rejects Islam’s clear teaching about putting homosexuals to death. Will he be denounced as an apostate? No: other Muslims will know he is merely trying to deceive the Infidels.
“Oklahoma Muslim leaders say ‘sanctity of life’ outranks faith stance against homosexuality,” by Carla Hinton, NewsOK, June 26, 2016 (thanks to Bulldog):
In the aftermath of the Orlando shooting, numerous Muslim leaders around the country stood alongside leaders from the gay community at prayer vigils and rallies held for victims of the tragedy.
Nihad Awad of the Council on American-Islamic Relations expressed unequivocal support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights in a news conference held in Washington, D.C., immediately after the attack.
“For many years, members of the (LGBTQ) community have stood shoulder to shoulder with the Muslim community against any acts of hate crimes, Islamophobia, marginalization and discrimination. Today, we stand with them, shoulder to shoulder,” Awad said. “We cannot fight injustice against some group and not against others.”
More recently, 65 American Muslim and LGBTQ organizations released a joint statement expressing their accord….
In Oklahoma, some Muslim leaders acknowledged that the June 12 shooting at the Pulse gay night club in Orlando has piqued interest in Islamic views on homosexuality.
“That’s something that people are curious about,” said Adam Soltani, executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations-Oklahoma chapter. “It’s not the story we necessarily want. We want stories about Muslims helping their communities but we know that people are talking about this.”…
John Ederer, imam of the Islamic Society of Tulsa, said the two groups have much in common.
“Right now, the truth is the gay community and Muslim community really are two of the most vilified and verbally abused communities,” he said during a recent interview.
Imad Enchassi, senior imam and founder of the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City, said this shared defamation brings the groups together.
“Any minority group feels the pain of isolation, whether it be the LGBTQ community or the Jewish community or the African American community or the Hispanic community so there is a bond in all these minority groups based on isolation and we find solace in one another,” Enchassi said.
“In particular, when it comes to an incident like this one, we console one another.”
Troy Stevenson, executive director of Freedom Oklahoma, an LGBTQ advocacy group, agreed.
“We’re talking about two communities that face some of the greatest discrimination in the country. That’s the issue that binds us,” Stevenson said.
“I think folks that live with oppression everyday recognize it in others and there’s a natural empathy.”…
Enchassi said Islam is an Abrahamic faith tradition and views homosexuality as a sin just as fornication and adultery are considered sins. He said this viewpoint is not unlike that of other faith traditions including some Christian faith traditions.
Enchassi said while Muslims look at homosexuality as a sin, they recognize that they should “resent the sin and hug the sinner and be loving to the sinner as much as we can.”
Ederer shared similar sentiments.
He said God prohibits homosexuality in the Quran. However, “God has sent the Prophet Muhammad and our religion mercy and compassion for all people and all life on Earth.”
“So we are absolutely against anybody being abused verbally or physically for whatever lifestyle they choose to hold or that they hold acceptable to them,” Ederer said. “It’s not my business to force my beliefs on anybody or to hate them or be abusive to them in any way, shape or form. So for somebody to be abusive to anyone, no matter what their beliefs or practices, we would defend them and we would stand against their oppressors.”
Soltani echoed Ederer’s thoughts, adding that protecting life is a priority in Islam.
“Regardless of what religion says about homosexuality, we uphold the sanctity of human life. It’s the utmost priority, so protecting human life is a priority,” Soltani said.

Angemon says
Of course they don’t want people poking around the islamic penalty for homosexuality, or else people just might get the idea that Mateen was acting in accordance to his faith. No, infidel, look the other way – there’s a seemingly nice muslim there, and therefore all muslimc are nice.
mortimer says
Muslims in America are not following Islam…they are fudging … they are practicing Islam-à-la-carte.
Muslims do not have the choice of ‘OPTING OUT’ of certain doctrines. That is called ‘KUFR’.
Quote from Ibn Kathir:
Kufrul-Istihaal: Disbelief out of trying to make HARAM into HALAL. This applies to someone who accepts as lawful (Halal) that which Allaah has made unlawful (Haram) like alcohol or adultery. Only Allaah subhanahu wa ta’ala has the prerogative to make things Halal and Haram and those who seek to interfere with His right are like rivals to Him and therefore fall outside the boundaries of faith.
Jayke says
Didn’t one of the followers of Mo in Orlando say that it is out of compassion that homosexuals should be executed? Where did I hear that?
Angemon says
You are correct – it was a shia imam earlier this year.
Nigel GFF says
This Imam, “Imad Enchassi, senior imam and founder of the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City”,
sounds like a real bundle of joy. My advice, don’t turn your back on him (or expose your neck).
https://counterjihadreport.com/tag/imad-enchassi/
Jay Boo says
This Muslim (CYA) will quickly fade back to hate.
So too will Leftist exuberance over such declarations return to willful ignorance after the next savage killing of gays.
Mark Swan says
It is so absurd when Muslims use Christian Ideas, which they hate, to try to placate the general public—and even more wrong that any media coverage is given to such nonsense—look how far we have gone from any insistance of truth.
Michael Copeland says
Awad said. “We cannot fight injustice against some group and not against others.”
Except Jews.
Hope says
Exactly, Michael Copeland.
Stephen Golay says
The slithering forth of the fork-tongues is understood. Islam’s front man in Oklahoma is well-versed in the linguistic tactics of various “faith communities”. It is beguiling. In spite of Islam’s global assault on Christianity, far too many Christians (liberal or conservative) are cross-fingering hoping to high heaven that, buried deep in the Arabian sands, is some forgotten Quranic verse – or some forever damnation of exegetical misunderstanding – that honest-top-God seals the Abrahamic brethren in terrestial fellowship. So, the far too frequent, quips from even the Pro-Life Community that Islam is somehow an ally.
Which creates a problem for the likes of me! After Orlando there has been a rish – even among conservative church leadership – t be oh so gay. In spite of the iman;s line, it is way beyond the tired doctrine of “hating the sin but loving the sinner”. For one, the LGBT folks finds that insulting, and not conducive of their own agenda which (mirroring Islam’s) is the homosexualization of the culture. The LGBT grand plan is just as all-conclusive as Islam’s.
Should say, at least that’s my reading (and frontline experience). So what am I to do? Here I am, counter-jihadist as they come; yet, also finding it my duty to counter the LBGT-ization of our culture. In order to be truly a counterjihadist should I now (after Orlando) become all gay?
Would find that difficult. Know too much. Or, should I simply withdraw and let the islamists and the homosexualists fight it, bloodily out, on the wasteland of our society?
KnowThyEnemy says
Defeating Islam is priority. Defeating Hillary Clinton is top-priority. Countering the LBGT-ization of our culture can be debated later, even if it means decades later!
Islam otoh cannot be defeated later. If Hillary wins this election, the Islamo-leftist alliance will become more powerful and will keep gaining power. If Hillary wins this election, I predict that she will do a full eight-year term, and that Democrats will be in power for decades. In ten years America will be reduced to what Europe is today, and over time will lose its identity completely!
For this reason, we need to do whatever we can to stop Hillary from becoming POTUS. And that can only be accomplished by convincing as many people as possible to vote for Trump. This includes convincing the LGBTQ community to vote for Trump!
CogitoErgoSum says
He makes Islam sound so much like Christianity. If the two religions are so much alike, why didn’t Muhammad just spread Christianity? Muhammad could have become a great Christian saint ……. if it were not for his raping and killing and if he hadn’t gone around telling people that Christians (and Jews) were vile, filthy creatures who deserve to die.
Charli Main says
“Regardless of what religion says about homosexuality, we uphold the sanctity of human life. It’s the utmost priority, so protecting human life is a priority,” Soltani said
Of course, this taqqia merchant conveniently forgot to state that this waffle is valid only in countries where Muslims are a political and social minority.
CogitoErgoSum says
Exactly. Follow the laws of the land in which you live until you are able to implement the laws of Allah.
Mark Swan says
Pretend to until the numbers are there. For a people who despise and envy our people, Muslims sure want to absorb us, and have our accomplishments under their sway—what parasitical views they share.
mortimer says
Except that Sharia law tells the real story…
Punishment of Gays Punishment of Homosexuals
https://islamqa.info/en/38622
‘The crime of homosexuality is one of the greatest of crimes, the worst of sins and the most abhorrent of deeds, and Allaah punished those who did it in a way that He did not punish other nations.
The Sahaabah 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), as we shall see below. 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 (may Allaah be pleased with him).
Some of them thought that they should be stoned to death, which was narrated from both ‘Ali and Ibn ‘Abbaas (may Allaah be pleased with them).
After the Sahaabah, the fuqaha’ differed concerning the matter. Some of them said that the homosexual should be executed no matter what his situation, whether he is married or not.
Some of them said that he should be punished in the same way as an adulterer, so he should be stoned if he is married and flogged if he is not married.
Some of them said that a severe punishment should be carried out on him, as the judge sees fit.”
Frankly, these Muslims are lying … lying outright … damnable lies.
Angemon says
Well, buddy, I may consider the possibility of perhaps being open to the idea of not outright discarding the notion of believing you believe that when I see you shouting that from a megaphone to a crowd of tens of thousands of muslims in Tehran, Riyad or Raqqa.
billybob says
He said “God has sent the Prophet Muhammad and our religion mercy and compassion for all people and all life on Earth.”
Remind me again how many people Muhammad had tortured? Remember that tribe who in poor health he had counseled to drink camel’s milk and urine? When they got better, they murdered one of the the shepherds. Instead of seeking out the murder, he punished the entire tribe, by cutting off their hands and feet, burning out their eyes, and leaving them there in the desert sands to die slowly and painfully.
That is an example of “mercy and compassion”? It is a counter example!
Then how about that tribe, the Quraish I believe, whom Muhammad massacred? It took all day long to cut off their heads one by one, and while the captive wives watched in horror they were raped by the Muhammad’s men.
Maybe that is an example of “mercy and compassion”? It is another counter example!
How many people did Muhammad kill in his campaign to dominate the Arabian Peninsula?
How many people have Muslims killed ever since in their quest to dominate the world?
How gullible does this Imam think we are?
Nigel GFF says
“…John Ederer, imam of the Islamic Society of Tulsa, said the two groups have much in common…”
“Right now, the truth is the gay community and Muslim community really are two of the most vilified and verbally abused communities,” he said…
I’m guessing he’s never heard the witticism “…politics makes strange bedfellows…”
Time for a hug, but watch your back. Lies, more lies and even more distraction.
Dwight Upton says
If you know nothing of Islam and merely hope it is the religion of peace you will like this message about Islam and homosexuality.
If you know about Islam you know this imam is lying, you are an Islamaphobe. Congratulations.
Mockingjay says
“John Ederer, imam of the Islamic Society of Tulsa, said the two groups have much in common.”
Er – what was that?
Homosexuals and muslims have a L O T in C O M M O N?
How much more CYNICAL can you get?
And are there actually still people falling for these UTTER absurd inventions?
Well, yes.
Troy Stevenson, executive director of Freedom Oklahoma, an LGBTQ advocacy group, agreed.
“We’re talking about two communities that face some of the greatest discrimination in the country. That’s the issue that binds us,” Stevenson said.
Huh?
Islamic nations have the death penalty for homosexuality, muslims in EUROPE are WELL known for their (physical) agression against gays, a muslim man just killed almost 50 gay people in America because he was disgusted by them, and this guy Stevenson feels there is some real bonding going on?
I’m liberal in my views toward homosexuality, but these sort of people making these sort of statements really lower my opinion of gays.
KnowThyEnemy says
Gays are not the only ones making such naive statements. Women do the same. So do Atheists and blacks and other minorities, and of course people belonging to every other group!
It is just so easy to fool people, and the Democrats and Muslims excel at it. This is why I dread the Dems winning the coming US election. No matter what happens the Dems and Muslims manage to milk something out of it for themselves. After the Orlando attack, they not only managed to not hold Islam/Muslims responsible for it, but have been quite successful in convincing everyone that they are against homophobia.
I have no doubt that even if there is another jihad attack against gays before November, the Dems will again succeed in protecting the Muslims, consoling the gays, and gain public support. And they will successfully do this even after Hillary wins and even if there are twenty more major jihad attacks. People are just so naive and so easy to fool!
The Republicans otoh are in shambles. Despite this, we really have no option but to work hard to reach out to as many people as we can, and make the case that it is Trump who should be voted for, not Hillary!
Mockingjay says
“Gays are not the only ones making such naive statements. Women do the same. So do Atheists and blacks and other minorities, and of course people belonging to every other group!”
-KtE – I think you’re being a bit too kind calling these statements “naïve”.
After all, it is 2016. There is SO much information out there.
I call this such behaviour inexcusable mental laziness, willfull blindness mixed with self-deception, plain stupidity.- and perhaps quite often, a mix of all these.undesirable personality traits.
I just can’t stand people who are unwilling to face reality.
utis says
Actions speak louder than words. Actions: WTC bombings 1 and 2, Beltway sniper, San Bernardino, Pulse… There are numberless actions world-wide that speak louder than any imam’s sugar-coated —
WorkingClassPost says
“Soltani echoed Ederer’s thoughts”
Well they’re had quite a few days to get their stories straight – excuse the pun.
Georg says
These are nice platitudes, but look at the behavior and sentiments coming from Islam regarding homosexuality. This all brings to mind Zudi Jasser’s… views… on Islam, however nice they may be, and the utmost contradiction they have with normative Islam.
There is just no way around it that Islam is a danger to homosexual people.
steve brown says
I bet 100000000000000000 to one that not one US Imam will do these two things; 1. Publicly state that he and his Mosque believes that Israel should permanently be a Jewish sovereign nation with all of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, 2. Financially support Israel equally as their mosques supports Islamic organizations.
Debi Brand says
Grabbing, by the seat of his haji pants and the rim of his flowing beard, your beloved “prophet,” are you, Oklahoma Muslim leaders, hurling him, his alleged Allah-provided revelation of the meanings of Qur’anic verses, and thus the lot of his Sunnah headlong out of Islam.
That makes you one of the two of the following: blooming prevaricators on the tenets of your faith or apostates to your declared faith. Which one is it?
Jay Boo says
Public Radio
On The Media segment
direct link to podcast
— (I was not able to locate a transcript)
https://www.wnyc.org/radio/#/ondemand/634256
possible reasons given for Mateen’s actions
lack of social cohesion
mental health
substance abuse
taunted for being overweight
at the 53 second mark — someone who suffered workplace discrimination
More Ham Ed says
What they say in English is one thing, what they say in Arabic is another.
“…our failure to understand Arabic leaves us oblivious to the coded anti-West hate messages delivered in many mosques. If we understood them, we would not be surprised Muslim radicalization takes place in mosques serving as hate cauldrons.”
From Jan 2016:
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/01/04/shutting-down-islams-cauldrons-of-hate/
Trico says
“They recognize that they should ‘resent the sin and hug the sinner and be loving to the sinner as much as we can.’”
-I am not 100% sure but I believe that ” hugging the sinner” and “loving to the sinner as much as we can” is actually how homosexuality started.
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“Islam mandates that homosexuals be put to death”
As I recently learned from a Florida Imam, putting a homosexual to death is really an act of kindness, a sort of mercy killing., an Act of Compassion.
If you look at the atrocity of killing homosexuals from that viewpoint, it doesn’t seem so bad, does it?
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“Death is the most effective cure for homosexuality”
-Dr. Allaham Abraham, Executive Director and Chief Physician of the “Islamic Medical Center For Curing Homosexuality”
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“For you practise your lusts on men in preference to women”
It’s not their fault. If Islam didn’t make women cover their head and wear a type of bee keepers outfit and if women were allowed to actually go out and mingle, that “situation” might change.
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“Ederer…said God prohibits homosexuality in the Quran.”
Uh uh, God prohibits homosexuality in the Bible.
That other guy “,,, prohibits homosexuality in the Quran.”.
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““God has sent the Prophet Muhammad and our religion mercy and compassion for all people and all life on Earth.””
Last I checked, Europe and Scandinavia were part of the Earth and the People therein part of “All People”.
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The Muslim Refugees, Immigrants and Migrants invading Europe and Scandinavia did not bring “mercy and compassion” with them unless mercy and compassion has a different meaning in Islam.
Now that I think about it, it does. The Florida Imam said killing homosexuals was an “Act Compassion”.
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“So we are absolutely against anybody being abused verbally or physically for whatever lifestyle they choose to hold or that they hold acceptable to them,” Ederer said”
He added: “So for somebody to be abusive to anyone, no matter what their beliefs or practices, we would defend them and we would stand against their oppressors.””
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What verbal horse manure.
We have been told over and over that it is the Western Women’s fault for attracting rape and sexual assault because their head is uncovered, their clothing immodest, for being out alone, for being Western, for being blonde,…
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“Your Fault!” Why Western Women Get Raped by Muslims”
http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2016/06/25/your-fault-why-western-women-get-raped-by-muslims/
More Ham Ed says
T a a a a a a q i y y a
Sorry, had to sneeze.
abad says
Ummm
There is NO such thing as sanctity of life in Islam.
NONE.
Islam is all about Death.
That imam is lying (taqiyya) as usual.
Guy Jones says
Taqiya Pinocchio alert!
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
This imam Imad Enchassi is famous as a fraud. Take a look at his publicity page:
http://www.isgoc.com/site/abouttheimam/
He claims to have a certificate in Quranic Recitation, with a chain of teachers that goes all the way back to You-Know-Who (pbuh) himself. But when a reporter asks to photograph this certificate to list all these recitation masters, he absolutely refuses, and says, in effect, “Nyeah-nyeah-nyeah-nyeah NYEAH nyeah!” Try it yourself; ask him politely to publish his certificate online, and see what response you get.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyM8NVl4yBY
“Just laughing and gay like a clown”
Manuele says
‘sanctity of life’ outranks faith’ ANOTHER BALLOON OF HOT AIR. AND IF YOU CAN SMELL THE HELIUM GAS COMING FROM IT THAN I SAY YOU WON’T STOP LAUGHING AND IGNORE THE FOUL SMELL COMING FROM IT
duh swami says
Sanctity of life? Not everyone is a murderer, but nearly everyone is a k killer…of something sometime…Murders, executions, abortions, war, all berry the notion of ‘sanctity of life’…Islam has little respect for life at all…Sharia says to kill hays, it says…Mahoundians who reject that are ‘warring with Allah, and insulting the ‘Prophet’…They will have a lot to explain to Allah when the time comes…
dave says
I don’t know why the simple question is not asked of all these imams:”Is the Orlando shooter in heaven?” According to the Koran 9.111, he would be. Let them disclaim this verse as not longer being valid.
TomF says
Memo to the gay community……Islam wants you dead. You guys are not on the same team. You’re not even on the same planet. Or maybe someone at Pulse drew a cartoon of the prophet on a cocktail napkin, and everyone there deserved to be killed for committing blasphemy and provoking this guy. On the other hand, maybe he was just taking literally the instructions regarding gays contained within his holy dogma, which just happens to sanction the death penalty for homosexuality.
The devout Muslims of ISIS throw gays off buildings on a regular basis, and you wouldn’t want to come out of the closet in Saudi Arabia (or anywhere else in the Muslim world, for that matter), unless you wanted to have your head chopped off. In the Islamic cesspool of Bangladesh, you’d likely be hacked to death by an angry mob. The Shia theocracy of Iran routinely “hangs em high” from construction cranes half a dozen or more at a time.
You see, with Islam, the more devout you are, the more insane you are (carve that in stone, please). All you have to do is wind these brainwashed, fully indoctrinated automatons up, put a machine gun in their hands or strap a bomb on em, and point them in the direction of the nearest group of Jews, gays, infidels, apostates, cartoonists or whoever else the mad men of this mad religion deem deserving of death in the name of their bloodthirsty god and his deranged prophet.
Greyhound Fancier says
Why is the Islamic Society of Oklahoma City open? After the member beheaded that poor woman, the place should have been investigated and closed.