A mosque in London with charitable status is facing an investigation after it published sermons encouraging husbands to strike their wives and condoning the execution of gay people.
Videos published on the Hackney Islamic Community Centre’s YouTube channel describe gay sex as ‘one of the most evil of acts’, and urge men to ‘discipline’ their wives if they disobey them – including if they refuse to have sex.
Another lecture from the same preacher sees him praise Saudi Arabia for continuing to execute people who are accused of ‘witchcraft’.
Elsewhere, a community elder at the East London mosque – also known as Masjid Daar
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