UK: Muslim Rights Group Director, Who Called ‘Jihadi John’ “Beautiful”, Refuses To Condemn Stoning Women For Adultery

Moderate Muslim?

From the Express:

Asim Qureshi, director of Muslim rights group CAGE, was asked about views advocated by an Islamic scholar he had described as a mentor. 

These included positions of female genital mutilation, domestic violence and stoning women as punishment for adultery. 

When questioned repeatedly about these views on BBC’s This Week programme by presenter Andrew Neil Mr Qureshi refused to condemn the opinions. 

Others extreme positions he refused to condemn included horrifying claims that Jews are descended from pigs and that homosexuality is evil.

The comments come a week after Mr Qureshi sparked outrage by describing Jihadi John, who has brutally beheaded Western IS hostages, as "beautiful".