Sheikh Farrokh Sekaleshfar
The United West investigative team uncovered a story so disturbing Field Sutton of Channel 9 news in Orlando, FL broke the story on their newscast.
The Husseini Islamic Center, 5211 Hester Ave, Sanford, FL 32773, invited Sheikh Farrokh Sekaleshfar to speak at their Mosque. Dr. Sekaleshfar says the killing of homosexuals is the compassionate thing to do.
In a 2013 speech Sheikh Sekaleshfar said this regarding gays, “Death is the sentence. We know there’s nothing to be embarrassed about this, death is the sentence…We have to have that compassion for people, with homosexuals, it’s the same, out of compassion, let’s get rid of them now.”
The story is dated April 6. Two months ago.
I hate how on one hand, we will have people who say this mass murder has nothing to do with religion. On the other, we will have Trump et al who will blame and demonise a whole religious community. Not just a false dichotomy, but a harmful one. Simplistic binary thinking seems to be the default.
compassion. ur doing it rong.
He can be charged with hate speech, right? Incitement to violence is a crime, right?
Hmmm.
Yeah, don’t think US free speech law really has any means of addressing stochastic terrorism like in this example.
I don’t like to bring up Sam Harris, for obvious reasons, yet this sounds just like what he says at the end of a TedTalk entitled “Science can answer moral questions.”
When the talk is over, a TedTalk manager comes on stage and asks him unscripted questions (that is rather unusual to begin with), but the manager asks if he would change his mind if it turned out that under futuristic neuroscanning of the brain the father who killed his daughter for honor loved his daughter as much as one who didn’t kill his daughter (21:45mins in). Harris says that oddly someone might love their gay child but reason that it’s best to kill him/her so he/she wont go to hell.
https://www.ted.com/talks/sam_harris_science_can_show_what_s_right?language=en
Interrogation/interview starts at 19:00 minutes in/
He can be charged with hate speech, right? Incitement to violence is a crime, right?
He will argue religious freedom, and that he is only following what Islam commands, and it will end there.These sermons are based on the contents of Islam’s core texts, and so if you attempt to push things further, you’ll end up putting those core texts on trial.
Simplistic binary thinking seems to be the default.
Noticing patterns, citing common elements and then connecting the dots with regards to these atrocities is hardly binary thinking.
Nothing to indicate Mateen had compassion in his mind but I’m guessing this asshole would find that forgivable.
John @8,
Religious freedom doesn’t even enter into it.
“Hate speech” is not a crime under U.S. law. Period. Doesn’t matter whether there’s a religious justification or not.
The link in Silentbob’s post @4 has the relevant case law; it’s the RAV v. St. Paul case that rejected a “hate speech” exception to the First Amendment. Speech that might be considered “hate speech” can only be prosecuted to the extent it violates some other, constitutionally allowed, restriction, such as the incitement under the Brandenburg case that Silentbob quotes above.
@10
Those rules don’t apply to Islamic homophobia.
Whatever Islam’s core texts dictate about homosexuality will always trump our puny, toy-town secular law