(Free Beacon) An anti-Israel student group at the University of Pennsylvania invited an Islamic scholar and cleric to campus who last year argued that gay people are “destructive” and “will not be happy.”
The scholar, former Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center senior imam Yasir Fahmy, delivered a June 2022 lecture titled, “Thoughts on LGBTQ+.” Fahmy during the lecture argued that gay people and those who “indulge in what you like” are living a “destructive” lifestyle. “We’re lost, and a true representation of this loss and this waywardness is this LGBTQ movement,” Fahmy said. “You see what’s happening with Disney — Buzz Lightyear, now Buzz Lightyear is suddenly gay. Suddenly, he’s gay.”
Months later, on Nov. 6, 2023, the Penn Muslim Students Association said it was “excited” to introduce Fahmy as a speaker at its annual conference, MSA East, which the group held Saturday.
