Mahamudul Hasan Mehedi posts hateful comment on assault victim's Facebook page
THOUSAND of people have left sympathetic comments on the Facebook page of Ryan Williams, 22, who posted a photo of the injuries he sustained as a result of a vicious homophobic attack in Preston, Lancashire.
Images via Facebook
But there was no sympathy from a young Muslim man, Mahamudul Hasan Mehedi, above, who commented:
Great work it’s great that you are beaten.
Williams was “repeatedly kicked in the face and left wounded” outside a branch of McDonalds. The assault is being investigated by police as a hate crime.
Williams said:
My friends and I were heading to McDonalds for something to eat after a night out. There was a group of people nearby in the street and they started calling me and my friends gay. We went over and told them it’s not okay to say things like that. As I walked away then one of them ran after me and he hit me in the back of the head.
Wrote Williams on Facebook:
I never thought in my life that I would get beaten up for being GAY! Wtf has this world actually come to, you’re all vile and disgusting! I want people to understand that being gay ISNT a choice and I can’t help it, I’m sorry that you can’t deal with it but hey ho no need to knock someone out because of it! I seriously can not believe that a homophonic (sic) attack happens! Which it does and it’s wrong! Stand strong and love yourself, this isn’t gonna stop me from being fabulous! BEING GAY IS OK!”
The receptionist says he was thumped over the head, repeatedly kicked in the face and left wounded on the ground.
A spokesman for Lancashire Police said:
We were called around 6.30am on Saturday (July 13) following reports of an assault in Friargate, Preston. A man in his 20s had been punched by another man close to McDonalds. The offender then made off from the scene with two men and a woman. The victim was knocked unconscious suffering facial injuries. He later was taken to Royal Preston Hospital for treatment. The assault is being investigated as a hate crime and inquiries are on-going. Anyone with information can contact police on 101 quoting log 0311 of July 13.
Following the Pulse club shooting in Florida three years ago, ex-Muslim and human rights campaigner Ayaan Hirsi Ali, wrote:
The Orlando massacre is a hideous reminder to Americans that homophobia is an integral part of Islamic extremism … No fewer than 40 out of 57 Muslim-majority countries or territories have laws that criminalize homosexuality, prescribing punishments ranging from fines and short jail sentences to whippings and more than 10 years in prison or death.
These countries’ laws against homosexuality align with the attitudes of the overwhelming majority of their populations. In 2013 the Pew Research Center surveyed the beliefs of Muslims in 36 countries with a significant Muslim population or majority, including asking about their views of homosexuality. In 33 out of the 36 countries, more than 75% of those surveyed answered that homosexuality was ‘morally wrong’, and in only three did more than 10% of those surveyed believe that homosexuality was ‘morally acceptable.’
This from a Channel 4 survey of attitudes of UK Muslims to homosexuality:
When asked to what extent they agreed or disagreed that homosexuality should be legal in Britain, 18% said they agreed and 52% said they disagreed, compared with 5% among the public at large who disagreed. Almost half (47%) said they did not agree that it was acceptable for a gay person to become a teacher, compared with 14% of the general population.
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July 18, 2019
More Islamic homophobia. Appalling!
July 18, 2019
I’m a gay man, been true to myself all my 70 years. Have had my run ins and they were resolved. At my age now, I do not see a world of acceptance. Us human beings always go to a place of our kind, whether religion, hobbies, education, ethnicity, etc.
Since religion is a coping mechanism for humans, they want to “understand” everything, an answer for all that there is non for. Religion fulfills this. Communism, dictators are another form of religion too and fulfill these unknowns with their answers.
So since the main stream population wants answers, they trash critical thinking. My conclusion is, as long as we the human race exist so will our prejudices, hates, wanting of being right and making others wrong, thinking we must “believe”. We are stuck with what life has always been and will be. We each stand alone, but belief destroys this approach too. The truth believed is a lie. All i have done and still do is to be myself and take each day one at a time with it’s ups and downs, be the best i can and try not to provoke those to anger by making myself right and others wrong. Love thyself only and if you decide to love your neighbor make sure you know who they are first!
July 19, 2019
This was an ugly and inexcusable attack. While many Muslims will be as appalled as the rest of us, practising Sunni and Shia Muslims – the problem variety, who also make up the majority of the Muslim population – will see this as just deserts. Theirs is a particularly backward and nasty religion – the news is full of their savagery and inhumanity.
July 20, 2019
The same thing can be said for Christians. Hence the reason I disqualify all religious people, whether you are for or against gay rights. I simply cannot trust you.
July 25, 2019
Don’t be foolish, Putt. You belittle the danger of Muslim homophobia by comparing that cult to Christianity (or to Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Paganism…..) Every single country besides Taiwan that has legalized same-sex marriage is a Christian-majority country.
July 20, 2019
I profoundly disagree with the tone and approach of this piece. To equate Islam with homophobia promotes homophobia by alienating decent humane Muslim men and women, of whom there are many and I’ve known a number of them. The truth from my humanist and atheist perspective is that all religions are man-made (with minor exceptions such as Christian Science, which was of course made up by a woman …) and their content and impact is entirely what their adherents choose to make of them. It is the individual and collective choices of some people and communities within Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism (to name just a few) that make them either hostile or supportive to LGBT people within and outside those communities. To imply and state that homophobia is integral to the religion silences supporters and enables the hostile people to avoid their personal responsibility for their inhumane and unjustified moral choices. Please, Barry, think harder and think again!
July 20, 2019
You observation, Julian, has indeed prompted me to think again, and I now see that it was remiss of me to not to have pointed out in this report that, in the words of ex-Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali,”the Orlando massacre is a hideous reminder to Americans that homophobia is an integral part of Islamic extremism … No fewer than 40 out of 57 Muslim-majority countries or territories have laws that criminalize homosexuality, prescribing punishments ranging from fines and short jail sentences to whippings and more than 10 years in prison or death.
“These countries’ laws against homosexuality align with the attitudes of the overwhelming majority of their populations. In 2013 the Pew Research Center surveyed the beliefs of Muslims in 36 countries with a significant Muslim population or majority, including asking about their views of homosexuality. In 33 out of the 36 countries, more than 75% of those surveyed answered that homosexuality was ‘morally wrong’, and in only three did more than 10% of those surveyed believe that homosexuality was ‘morally acceptable’.”
This from a Channel 4 survey of attitudes of UK Muslims to homosexuality: “When asked to what extent they agreed or disagreed that homosexuality should be legal in Britain, 18% said they agreed and 52% said they disagreed, compared with 5% among the public at large who disagreed. Almost half (47%) said they did not agree that it was acceptable for a gay person to become a teacher, compared with 14% of the general population.”
Accordingly, I have added the information above to the report.
July 25, 2019
Thanks for this article and your additions to the report, Barry Duke. Western gays who are hiding their heads in the sand over Islamic homophobia will bring about their own deaths, but there’s no reason for the rest of us to go down with them without a fight.
August 1, 2019
“No fewer than 40 out of 57 Muslim-majority countries or territories have laws that criminalize homosexuality, prescribing punishments ranging from fines and short jail sentences to whippings and more than 10 years in prison or death.”
“When asked to what extent they agreed or disagreed that homosexuality should be legal in Britain, 18% said they agreed and 52% said they disagreed, compared with 5% among the public at large who disagreed. Almost half (47%) said they did not agree that it was acceptable for a gay person to become a teacher, compared with 14% of the general population.”
Both of the above facts and stats say it all.
Religion is what is keeping homophobia alive in the UK and around the world.
It’s not intolerant to refuse to tolerate intolerance!
August 3, 2019
Once again we see outrageous gay hatred as the norm from vast sections of the Muslim community in Britain . Whilst it is true that there ARE progressive and cultural Muslims out there who will be appalled at this the majority will covertly approve . As the surveys show homophobia IS an integral part of Islam now . In the Uk creeping de facto shariah is already silencing people at work , in the media , education and social media. Even metropolitan gays refuse to discuss this ( on the whole ) In their cowardly and naive belief that “ we are all the same “ I see worse , much worse , on the horizon lest drastic measures are implemented .
August 6, 2019
The most basic unwritten right is to be left alone; which is not permitted by Islamic sharia (i.e. laws), while no rights are permitted with the exception that the religious right of Muslim adult males be recognized in international law (i.e. UN OIC) with all others having any rights at all but to submit to the oppression of Muslims under their sharia!