Campaigners have hit out at the University of Reading for allowing a 'gay hate' Islamic preacher to address students.Abu Usamah at-Thahabi is due to give a speech to the university's Muslim Society as part of its Discover Islam Week on Thursday night.
Anti-extremist group Student Rights has condemned the meeting and called on the university to review its decision to allow the controversial cleric on campus.
Protestors claim he has been caught making homophobic remarks including referring to gay people as "perverted, dirty, filthy dogs who should be murdered".
The Muslim cleric is also being accused of sexual harassment at the Birmingham mosque where he preaches.
According to Birmingham's Sunday Mercury, Mr At Thahabi, who is an imam at the Green Lane mosque in Sparkbrook is named in a website which claims to expose “sexual deviant preachers who prey on our Muslim sisters.”
The site alleges that it has been contacted by at least two female victims of the US-born convert.
The University of Reading has refused to give in to the demands insisting that it was committed to upholding both the right to free speech and lawful protest.
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