The National Secular Society reports:
The National Secular Society has reported a religious charity to the regulator after uncovering videos which promote violence against women and condone the execution of gay people and accused ‘witches’.
The NSS has referred Hackney Islamic Community Centre, a mosque in London, to the Charity Commission for England and Wales over three sermons which it warns could fuel misogyny, homophobia and ‘witchcraft abuse’.
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The commission’s previous responses to charities promoting violence against women or homophobia has been to provide the charity’s trustees “advice and guidance”.
Hackney Islamic Community Centre is also known as Masjid Daar Al-Hadeeth. It has been a registered charity since 2006 but this April re-registered to become a Charitable Incorporated Organisation. Its charitable objects (purposes) include “the advancement of religion”.
Charities are subject to considerable tax exemptions. The law requires charities to serve a public benefit and they must not promote extremism.
Welllll, promoting violence against women is not extremism. Perfectly normal, it is.
In one sermon on “major sins” in Islam, Islamic scholar Yasin Munye says it is a “major sin” for women not to obey their husbands.
He says husbands should “discipline them physically” by “lightly hitting them to show them who is in charge”.
He includes “disobeying the husband when it comes to calling her to bed, when it comes to calling her for intimacy, she says no without any excuse” as an example of a disobedience.
Leaving the house without the husband’s permission is also a form of disobedience, he says.
In short there are no wives, there are only slaves.
In the same video, Munye says the punishment for people who commit ‘sexual sin’ is being “lashed 100 times” or, in some cases, “stoning to death”. He calls sex between two men “one of the most evil of acts” and “a crime”. He adds: “Both of them are executed in the Sharia (Islamic law)”.
At least seven countries prescribe the death penalty for homosexuality.
Munye says scholars “differ on how the execution occurs”, with some saying “he is executed through the sword, like in every other normal execution”, while others say “they are thrown off a tall building, and then rocks are thrown after that on top of them”.
Lovely, healthy stuff, yeah?
In another video on the charity’s YouTube account, Islamic scholar Abu Sa’ad Muhammad says a woman must serve her husband even if he “mistreats” her.
He says: “Women think these days, our sisters think, that you only be kind to him if he’s been kind back. That’s with your friends outside. Not with your husband at all. It doesn’t work like that.”
Well it should, fuckface. It should. It should work like that across the board – not just in your bedroom, but everywhere.
I suppose the Charity Commission will just lose the paperwork somewhere again.