KENYA: HOPES FOR CALM YET CLERICS STOKE HATRED

In the aftermath of the attempted anti-gay pogrom in Mtwapa, Kenya, the Daily Nation reports that the government’s attempts to calm the situation are being rebuffed by clerics. The government has set up a committee which aims to educate the public on the operations of the Kenya Medical Research...

February 22nd, 2010 | Highlights, International | Read More

NIGERIAN TERROR PLOTTER LINKED TO EAST LONDON MOSQUE

A relative of Umar Abdulmutallab – the man arrested for trying to blow up a plane on Christmas Day has claimed that he came under the influence of extremist groups after visiting the East London Mosque. The mosque has attracted criticism from Peter Tatchell after hosting events for a number of...

December 28th, 2009 | News | Read More

VIDEO: TATCHELL URGES LGBT COMMUNITY TO STAND WITH MUSLIMS RESISTING SHARIA LAW

At Saturday’s protest against Sharia Law, Peter Tatchell urged members of the UK gay community to stand shoulder to shoulder with Muslim people around the world who are resisting Sharia law. Talking to HOMOVISION, he said: “In so many countries, like Uganda, Pakistan, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia...

November 23rd, 2009 | Latest videos, News | Read More

TATCHELL: “JUST SAY NO TO SHARIA LAW”

Great article in today’s Comment is Free in the Guardian Online by Peter Tatchell ahead of Saturday’s march against religious laws. In it he urges support for “the courageous Muslims who, often at great personal risk, are campaigning against religious extremism”. Although...

November 20th, 2009 | News | Read More

SHARI’AH LAW MARCH IN LONDON THIS SATURDAY

A march is to take place in London on Saturday 31st October demanding Shari’ah law be implemented in Britain. Organised by Islam4UK – an offshoot of the banned Al Muhajiroun group – the march will begin at Parliament, pass through Whitehall and end at Trafalgar Square. According to...

October 26th, 2009 | News | Read More

680 GAYS MURDERED IN IRAQ

In a recent interview in The Guardian, Ali Hali, chairman of the Iraqi LGBT Group has stated that since 2004, over 680 LGBT people have been murdered in Iraq – 70 of which were murdered in the past five months. Furthermore, Hali states that Iraq is “the wors place for homosexuals on Earth”...

October 9th, 2009 | News, Travel | Read More

TATCHELL CONDEMNS GAY HATE CLERIC FOR EAST LONDON MOSQUE BONANZA

Did you know about this? No neither did we until Friday. Basically last Friday thousands of people lined the street around the East London Mosque to catch a glimpse of superstar Saudi imam Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais – the Imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca. He lead the prayers at the Whitechapel...

August 10th, 2009 | News | Read More

US CHURCH’S GAY EXORCISM VIDEO

So right, just when we started to think that the Church wasn’t so bad when compared to the Muslim fundamentalists, they go and ruin it all again by posting a video of a gay exorcism. The video of the gay “exorcism” by the Manifested Glory Ministries in Bridgeport, Conneticut,...

June 26th, 2009 | International, News | Read More