Islam and Homoseuxals (updated)

These stories were posted almost back to back on www.thereligionofpeace.com:

Muslim GP faces disciplinary hearing for attack on gays

The president of the Islamic Medical Association is to face a disciplinary hearing after making a ferocious attack on gay people in Pulse, the magazine for GPs.

In the letter, Dr Muhammad Siddiq says that gays need “the stick of the law to put them on the right path" and that they deserve neither help nor pity.

"There is punishment and fine if you throw rubbish or filth in the streets. The gays are worse than the ordinary careless citizen,” wrote the GP, who is employed by the Walsall Primary Care Trust in the West Midlands, “They are causing the spread of disease with their irresponsible behaviour. They are the root of many sexually transmitted diseases." The letter went on to say that a depressed transsexual awaiting gender reassignment was "twisted."

Dr Siddiq denies that he authored the letter and claims his son was playing a "cynical spoof" on him by forcing him to sign the letter and sending it to Pulse, a magazine for GPs. When the magazine checked with Dr Siddiq, he made no effort to deny that these were his views. Allegedly, he has privately told his colleagues that he had actually written the letter.

Not really news, here. The Muslim view of homosexuality is well documented with the recent executions and whippings in countries with Sharia law.

Now the next one...

Artist Burns Koran to Make Gay Rights Statement

Recently, the artist Charles Merrill burned an expensive Koran to make a statement against Muslim views against homosexual behavior. He burned an expensive copy of the Koran that had been bequeathed to him by his late wife, Evangeline Johnson Merrill, who received it from the late King of Jordan in 1950s. The tome had a value of approximately $60,000.

Koran Burning Follows Bible Editing

The Koran burning comes after his recent decision to edit the Christian bible with black marker and scissors. Merrill's purpose in the defacing of the books is to "eliminate homophobic hate" in th Abrahamic Holy Books. Merrill described the ancient books of the Bible and the Koran as "terrorist manuals." Merrill considers these Abrahamic books that consider homosexuality not a normative state of human affairs to be hateful. He believes the Koran and the Bible encourage terrorism. He links terrorism with hate crimes against gays saying that "airplanes are flow into buildings because of words, and hate crimes against gays." Merrill hoped that his defacement of the sacred documents of the Abrahamic faiths of Christianity and Islam would call attention to homophobia across the world. Merrill is a self described atheist.

Fatwa in 5... 4... 3... 2...

Since the man who burnt this Koran is a gay atheist, there will be no outrage from the MSM. Come on, you know what happens whenever a Koran is even breathed on wrong in the west. The MSM makes it headline news for days, there are calls for "hate-crime" legislation from CAIR and the Liberals, somebody would blame the "Culture of Hate" on Bush yadda yadda you know the drill. Don't tell me it wouldn't happen.

(Update 7/28/07) *Sigh* Hate-crime arrests in Quran desecrations at Pace University

NEW YORK (AP) _ A 23-year-old man was arrested Friday on hate-crime charges after he threw a Quran in a toilet at Pace University on two separate occasions, police said.

I'm sure that if it was a Bible he flushed, they would have given him an award.