'Gay people were probably abused as children', says Ground Zero mosque's new imam

I guess this guy most"ve been abused thus caused him to become a moslem or whatever homophobic he might be. Someone ought to tell him, is not the same for sexual orientation. Unlike becoming a Moslem, Christian, Republican or Democrat, sexual orientation you are born as that.  adamfoxie*blog

The new imam at the Ground Zero mosque has has sparked fury after declaring that gay people were probably abused as children.

Abdallah Adhami is also quoted as saying that people who leave Islam for other religions should be jailed.

His controversial views were published in a lecture posted on his non-profit website, Sakeenah, and have already drawn criticism from human rights groups who have slammed him as 'ignorant'.

Controversial: Abdallah Adhami is quoted as saying gay people were probably abused as children

According to the New York Post Adhami, 44, said being gay was a 'painful trial' which comes as a result of past trauma.

He said: 'An enormously overwhelming percentage of people struggle with homosexual feeling because of some form of violent emotional or sexual abuse at some point in their life. A small, tiny percentage of people are born with a natural inclination that they cannot explain. You find this in the animal kingdom at some level as well.'

Adhami was named Imam and senior adviser of the proposed mosque by Park51, the organisation behind it. 

Fred Sainz, a spokesman for gay rights group the Human Rights Campaign, said the comments were ignorant and hateful, and questioned his 'greater judgement'.

Plans for the mosque on the site of the former Twin Towers caused controversy from the outset.

: http://www.dailymail.co.uk