Anti-gay Muslim cleric's Reading university talk cancelled
BBC News
https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/38962/anti-gay-muslim-cleric-reading-university-talk
Excerpt:
A talk by an Islamic cleric who has called for gay people to be punished with death has been cancelled at the University of Reading.
The student-run Muslim Society had organised for Abu Usamah at-Thahabi to speak at an event designed to promote understanding of Islam as a faith.
But the university and society said there was a threat of violence from outside "extremist groups".
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