(Pink News) Belgian immigration authorities will deport a Turkish imam for saying on social media that being gay is an “illness” that causes “decay.”
The imam led worship at the Green Mosque in Houthalen-Helchteren, Linburg, according to BBC Türkçe. When asked by the outlet to name the imam, mosque representatives simply said: “I don’t know, I have forgotten.”
He is to be deported after claiming on Facebook that “homosexuality is a disease, causes decay and is banned by Islam.”
One Facebook user commented on the post: “Homosexuality is a virus of capitalism and democracy,” which the imam agreed with.
In the post, the imam referred to a sermon led last week by Turkey’s president of the Directorate of Religious Affairs, Ali Erbaş, who once publicly declared that: “Islam curses homosexuality.”
