A gay man feels he is no longer welcome in his Dublin mosque after its prominent Sheikh condemned his “lifestyle”.
Yusuf Murray is a practicing Muslim who had been a regular attendee at the Islamic Centre of Ireland in Blanchardstown, west Dublin — which is led by well-known cleric Sheikh Dr Umar Al-Qadri. Speaking to The Star today, Dr Al-Qadri insisted that he is “not homophobic” and defended reported comments about gay sex and the spread of monkeypox within the LGBTQAI+ community.
He also claimed to us that Muslims are less likely to contract monkeypox as they don’t engage in gay sex — and that the virus now appearing in gay men has revealed a “wisdom” in that. Yusuf, who was also a member of Dr Al-Qadri’s Irish Muslim Council but has left, claims he now finds himself without any mosque to pray in after he objected to a recent speech by the cleric which was filmed and put up on social media.
