UK Muslim radio station fined £4,000 for saying homosexuals should be tortured and beaten up

A Muslim radio station in Leeds has been fined £4,000 by the media regulator Ofcom after one of its presenters said that homosexuals should be tortured and beaten up. Rubina Nasir told listeners to Asian Fever's Sister Ruby Ramadan Special in 2011: "What should be done if they do it? [practise homosexuality]. If there are two such persons among you, that do this evil, the shameful act, what do you have to do? Torture them; punish them; beat them and give them mental torture. Allah states, 'If they do such a deed [i.e. homosexuality], punish them, both physically and mentally. "Mental punishment means rebuke them, beat them, humiliate them, admonish and curse them, and beat them up. This command was sent in the beginning because capital punishment had not yet been sent down." The following day she said: "What happens when a Muslim man or woman gets married to a Mushrak [a follower of another religion]. Listeners! Marriage of a Muslim man or woman with a Mushrak is the straight path to hellfire. Have my sisters and brothers, who live with people of bad religions or alien religions, ever thought about what would become of the children they have had with them – and the coming generation? "Where the filth of shirk (the sin of following another religion) is present, where the dirt of shirk is present, where the heart is impure, how can you remove apparent filth. How many arrangements will you make to remove the apparent filth? We are saying that Mushraks have no concept of cleanliness and uncleanliness." She was on air while giving her interpretation of a Qur'anic verse and Ofcom got an independent translation from the original Urdu into English. Ofcom said it regarded the comments as serious breaches of the broadcasting code and therefore a financial penalty should be imposed. It added: "The content of the programme broadcast on 17 August 2011 included two statements which Ofcom considered were likely to encourage or to incite the commission of crime against homosexuals and were likely to encourage others to copy unacceptable behaviour towards homosexuals." Despite the severity of the breach, the regulator said that it "would not be appropriate to shorten, suspend or revoke Radio Asian Fever's licence". Responding to the fine, Jabbar Karim, Managing Director at Asian Fever radio, said: "We at Fever FM would like to sincerely apologise to the gay community and to everyone else who have found this news disturbing. This was a one-off incident which will never be repeated."

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• Good. Next step, kick the fuckers out of the UK.

• agree, R1

• Good grief, the UK really made a big mistake letting these nuts have so much power and influence.

• How and why did they get into England in the first place? Isn't there some kind of sentiment among native English people to have them leave? India is fairly prosperous now as far as high tech jobs are concerned, maybe a move there ought to be encouraged--and I don't care if they were born in England, lots of English people had been born in India during the British Raj, but that didn't make them Indian and they knew it. I just can't comprehend this odd impulse on the part of the Moslems/Muslims in England and elsewhere in Europe to hang on in the countries that really don't want them there. If I were someone "foreign" living in some country othere than my own, I think I'd take the hint and leave for my own. Why does England have any responsibility to keep them? They got rid of their Empire years ago. If India, Pakistan and Bangladesh can't get the hang of birth control, why is it England's problem??

  anon

• What is this Moslems/Muslims thing R4? They are the same and the accepted term is Muslim.

• r4, Europeans have a long and ugly history of expelling Jews from their respective nations. That didn't turn out so well in the end, if you don't remember. Muslims want to stay in wealthy Europe for the same reason Central Americans want to stay in wealthy North America. It's really not that hard of a concept. They want opportunity that cannot be afforded to them in their homelands. It is inhumane and logistically impossible to round up all the Muslims in England and ship them root and stem from their new homes.

• Islamonazism spreading love everywhere.

  http://www.libyaherald.com/2012/11/26/extremists-threaten-mutilation-and-death-for-seized-homosexuals/

• I think anon has discovered this place by accident. He shows up under "anon" and uses "Moslems/Muslims" which is odd. Probably a wingnut.

• NOT enough.

• I learned it as Moslem growing up r5 and I am reluctant to believe that it is completely incorrect today. There have been a variety of terms describing adherents of Islam: Musselman (often in use in Russia), Mohammedan (usually regarded as incorrect today as they technically don't "worship" Mohammed, which name itself has numerous spellings), Moslem, Muslim. Growing up I learned that Muslim referred only to Indian and Pakistani "Moslems". I refuse to be browbeaten into some lockstep way of spelling it when it has had numerous references and spellings for centuries. As Paul Theroux said about the Chinese browbeating everyone into calling Peking, Beijing--we don't call Moscow Moskva nor Rome Roma nor Warsaw Warzawa. It's not wrong, just different r5, don't let it ruin your day by any means. I know it won't spoil mine.

  anon

• In the US religious bigotry like homophobia is protected as a "religious belief". Xtians use it all the time here.

• Whatever, dude, Muslim is perfectly acceptable here. It sure saves on typing.

• When an American Christian radio yakker says that, he gets a raise.

• Here's an interesting article on the use of Moslem and Muslim:

  http://hnn.us/articles/524.html

• r6, it isn't the responsibility of Europeans to accommodate these people. If their homelands can't accommodate them then the obvious question is why not, what's the problem? They have no more right to move in and call England their own than the British did in calling India their own, which they finally realized in 1948 when India got its independence.

  Anonymous

• In the US religious bigotry like homophobia is protected as a "religious belief". Xtians use it all the time here. Say what you will of our crazy Xtians, at least we don't see pictures of them rounding up dozens of us along the wall for an execution firing squad.

• [quote] Say what you will of our crazy Xtians, at least we don't see pictures of them rounding up dozens of us along the wall for an execution firing squad. Yet

• [quote]Gays 'should die': A timeline of the Salvation Army's anti-gay flare-ups The Salvation Army certainly wouldn't mind seeing us all dead.

  http://theweek.com/article/index/229796/gays-should-die-a-timeline-of-the-salvation-armys-anti-gay-flare-ups

• "Say what you will of our crazy Xtians, at least we don't see pictures of them rounding up dozens of us along the wall for an execution firing squad. " That "Yet" should be amended to "recently." They did it for centuries.

• Like what some backass people who follow Islam matter anywhere. While they were wandering the dessert the part of the world that counts was busying producing an industrial lifestyle they all adhere to today. They should keep their famously big noses out of first world issues. They've contributed nothing to our modern way of life and if they don't reform will be left stuck in the past. Can't wait until we invent ulterior means to oil. Can't come soon enough. They'll really be screwed then because no one will need them for anything.

• r15 = our resident Nazi.

• The people who say homosexuals should be tortured and beaten up sound like the Nazis to me. And they hate Jews.

• [quote]How and why did they get into England in the first place? Muslims! In London! Who let them in??!!! Uncle Peter, my smelling salts.

  Aunt%20Pittypat

• Muslims are destroying the UK but PC lunacy prevents some from seeing this

• Goddamit, R23, you beat me to it.

• France has the right attitude when it comes to this. "Yes, you can come to France but you cannot bring your religious dogma with you. You want to live here? Act like a Frenchman."

• The UK is becoming an increasingly scary country.

• Only read as far as the original post and I say these fuckers should NEVER have a license to broadcast their bigotry in the UK. WTF are OFCOM thinking?? Brainwashed bigots who have no intention of adapting to modern society should piss off back to the dark ages instead of trying to inflict their nihilism on other countries. I was talking to a Muslim co-worker today - an incredibly bright woman - and she told me how her father prevented her from following any other path in life other than part-time work. When she expressed a desire to take engineering exams she was taken out of school and shipped off to the sub-continent for 6 months to be married off.

• Waiting for the usual PC brigade to tell everyone how incredibly racist it is not to love everything the Muslims do......

• This should be a police matter and the woman should be arrested and sentenced. I wonder if she follows her holy book all the way, or like others of whatever religion, she cherry picks the bits that suit her. From her talk of impurity etc, she sounds like a Nazi.

• The hate speech on American Family Association's network of 150 FM stations is nearly that bad, but of course, the FCC protects rather than fines them. First Amendment is the refuge of scoundrel too often.

• Aren't there enough rich muslim countries where they can practice this bigotry. Why do they go to Europe in the first place, if that's money issue?

• Good. These Muslims (and Catholics) are basically pigs that need to be fined.

• "Asian Fever's Sister Ruby Ramadan Special" MARY.

• r21=liar

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• Outsiders coming into the UK to preach hate. If the authorities were serious, they would have been evicted back to the country in which they were born. A fine that small, is almost an approval.

• Where's the post-colonial troll? I'm waiting to be reminded that karma's a bitch.