Shaykh hamza sodagar biography

Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has urged the Home Secretary to “revoke the visa” of an Islamist extremist preacher who he says “endorses the execution.
Sheikh Hamza Sodagar travels the globe promoting Shia Islamism on behalf of Iran's violent regime.
Shaykh Hamza Sodagar has been studying for over fourteen years at the Howzah in Qum, specializing in Islamic Law and Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence.

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Meet Hamza Sodagar, Tehran’s American Mouthpiece

The Islamist regime in Iran does not lack for spokesmen willing to promote its brutal ideology in the West. In Britain, the regime spreads its message through operatives affiliated with various regime-tied institutions, including the Islamic Cultural Centre in Manchester led by Farrokh Bahram Sekaleshfar, a well-known Khamenei envoy who regularly demonizes Israel and equates the faithful practice of Islam with support for the regime in Tehran.
Sekaleshfar’s fellow spokesman, the U.S.-based Sheikh Hamza Sodagar, travels the globe promoting Shia Islamism.
Sodagar, who was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and spent over 14 years studying in Qom, Iran, travels North America and Europe spreading the propaganda of the Islamic Republic.
“Sodagar is a kind of ambassador-at-large for the Iranian regime,” Hassan Dai, Director of the Iranian-American Forum, told FWI, adding that “wherever he goes you can be sure it’s 100 percent regime-tied.”
“The Islamic Republic’s one strength and success has been their proxy groups. Recruits for pr

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Contributing Scholars

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Shaykh Hamza Sodagar (past)

Hajj Muhammad Legenhausen (past)

Sayyid Baqir Imrani (past)

Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi (past)

Shaykh Saleem Bhimji (past)

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Home Secretary should revoke his visa

London, UK – 6 October 2016

Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has urged the Home Secretary to “revoke the visa” of an Islamist extremist preacher who he says “endorses the execution of LGBT people.”

“In a free society, Hamza Sodagar has a right to believe that homosexuality is sinful but not to preach about ways to kill lesbians and gay men. Many people with far less extreme views, who have never advocated violence, have been banned from entering the UK. Calling for death to LGBT people crosses a red line. The Home Office was wrong to grant him a visa and should now revoke it. The cleric should be ordered out of the country,” said human rights campaigner, Peter

US-born radical Shaykh Hamza Sodagar – who has dubbed non-Muslims “kuffars” and released a video detailing “one of five ways” to kill homosexuals – is speaking at the Islamic Republic of Iran School in London. His lectures started on October 4 and run until October 12.

According to a speaker biography, Mr. Sodagar regards himself as a “r