Heroically brave Norwegian-Syrian lesbian Sara Azmeh Rasmussen travels to Ireland and protests outside the Clonskeagh mosque, June-July 2011, because it is the headquarters of the European Council for Fatwa and Research, which supports the death penalty for homosexuality.
From VG (Norwegian newspaper), 30 June 2011 and 2 July 2011.
It seems this was only covered in the Norwegian media. I did not hear about this in the Irish media at all! I heard about it through an anonymous Internet tip off from Norway. (Thanks!)

  • She (of course) got threatened: "A mob gathered around me. They tore my sign from me, called me a pig, spat on me and threatened me ... A man threatened me. He said that of course I should be killed. Then he repeated it three times with pressure on the word kill."
  • "Here in Dublin, many .. told me how sinful and unclean I am. Some have said that I must be sent by the Jews and Zionists. The woman who asked me to leave [said] that if I was born like this, there must be a punishment for the sins that my parents have done. ... It is precisely this attitude that creates the violent prejudices against gays in Muslim communities."
  • "General Secretary of Fatwa Council, Sheikh Hussein Halawa, agreed to meet Rasmussen on Tuesday, and told her that she was suffering from a disease".
  • "In the meeting with General Secretary of Fatwa Council on Tuesday, Rasmussen was told that she was suffering from a disease. ... For those who have a disease, I will not ask for the death penalty, said Sheikh Hussein Halawa to Rasmussen. The Secretary-General, who stressed that he only gave his own view on the matter, explained that the question of the death penalty for gays was difficult. He believes that homosexuality should be divided into three categories: those who are born so, those who have chosen it, and those who try to convert others to be gays. [He said that] for those who want to push others to be gays, Sharia [requires] the death penalty."



Sara Azmeh Rasmussen burns the hijab, International Womens Day, Oslo, Norway, 2009.
Cool, stirring music.
It is a wonderful thing to be free.
Why does the left not support the liberation of Muslim women and gays?

Source: http://markhumphrys.com (Friend of Israel)