Mbale Muslim Community Reject Homosexuality
The Muslim Community in Mbale district has appealed to the Government to do more to crack down on those promoting homosexuality and other immoral sexual practices.
This was the main message across all mosques in Mbale this Friday in response to a directive to the Muslim Community by the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council asking all mosques to preach against the vice.
The clerics who led prayers expressed concern that young people, especially those in schools, have been lured into gay practices with false promises of money, property, and a better future.
Sheikh Hassan Waswa, who led Juma prayers at Bilal Mosque in Mbale City, said that Islam and other religious sects strictly prohibit homosexuality, as he quoted from the holy books which declare homosexuality a great sin.
According to Waswa, while religious leaders are united to fight the vice, the legislative arm of government should also pass a stronger law that will restrain perpetrators of the vice from practicing and promoting it.
The Bugisu Muslim District Kadhi Sheikh Isa Masaba wondered why the government has not brought a tougher law that bars homosexuality in the country.
Sheikh Masaba appealed to the Government to return to Parliament the law against homosexuality which was assented to by the President but was later quashed by the court over lack of quorum, should be passed again.,
