08 March 2011

Ken Livingstone: suicide bombers and a suicide candidate

.... I don’t know about the Mail. But the good Sheikh did tell that well-known tool of the right-wing lie machine, the Guardian, that he supported a husband’s right to “lightly” beat his wife, and that homosexuality was “a clash between morality and immorality.”

In his own book , The Lawful and Prohibited in Islam, not published by Associated Newspapers as far as I know, Qaradawi has reiterated his views on wife-beating and called for gay people to be killed. And Ken unfortunately forgot to mention that among Yusuf’s other statements on Newsnight was strong support for suicide bombings against Israeli civilians.

He has also defended rape, saying that “to be absolved from guilt, the raped woman must have shown some sort of good conduct.” [telegraph.co.uk] Read more