Peter Tatchell

A London University college has invited an extremist Islamic preacher to address its Islamic Society next Monday (30).

Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said:
"University College London is planning to host an extremist Islamist preacher, Abu Usamah, who endorses the murder of gay people and of Muslims who give up their faith. He also encourages the beating of little girls who refuse to wear the hijab.

"The university would never allow a lecture by a white supremacist who used racist abuse and advocated the murder of black people. Why the double standards.

Earlier this month Abu Usamah was given a similar platform by City University.
Mr Tatchell commented:
"The Vice Chancellor of City University London, Julius Weinberg, should resign. He has ignored student's complaints after the Islamic Society organised an on-campus meeting addressed by Abu Usamah.  

"It is utterly disgraceful that the student's union has defended the hosting of this hate preacher, and that the Vice Chancellor has not responded to protests from students. This violates the equal opportunities policies of the university and the student's union.

Abu Usamah was recorded for Channel Four's television documentary, Undercover Mosque, as saying:
"Do you practice homosexuality with men? Take that homosexual man ....and throw him off the mountain.... If I was to turn around and I was to call homosexuals perverted, dirty filthy dogs that should be murdered, that's my freedom of speech isn't it?"

On Muslims who leave the faith he said:
"Kill him in the Islamic state...If the Imam wants to crucify him, he should crucify him. The person is put up on the wood and he's left there to bleed to death for three days."

“Abu Usamah was also filmed by Channel Four deriding women as ‘deficient’, inferior to men and religiously and intellectually ‘incomplete.’ He advocates violence against little girls who refuse to wear the hijab: ‘She should start hijab from the age of seven, by the age of ten it becomes an obligation on us to force her to wear hijab and if she doesn't wear hijab, we hit her.’

“Another speaker given a platform at the same City University event, Murtaza Khan, was also caught on the Undercover Mosque documentary calling Jews and Christians 'enemies' and non-Muslims ‘filthy’.

"The Vice Chancellor seems unwilling to uphold the university's equal opportunities policy. He has failed to defend Muslim, Jewish, Christian, gay and women students and staff against these hate-mongers. Having neglected to ensure that the university is a safe, non-threatening place to work and study, Julius Weinberg should stand down.”

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