UK: Muslim Imam caught by paedo hunters says he fears being killed because homosexuality is against Islam

Ashraf Sidat, a mosque leader was stopped by paedophile hunters trying to meet a 15-year-old boy for sex after grooming him with offers of cash on Grindr.

The married father-of-five was snared by the vigilante group outside an address in Flixton, Greater Manchester, and was accused of traveling nearly an hour in the car to abuse the boy while his mother was at work.

While planning the meeting, he said he would bring a folder so he could claim he was there for a work appointment if he was questioned.

But when challenged, he denied the accusations but admitted he feared he “could get killed” because homosexuality is a sin in Islam.

‘Justice Will Be Served’ posed as a young boy on Grindr.

The 45-year-old Muslim squirms as he is read messages which he sent to who he thought was the boy, but was in fact the paedophile hunters. He asked the boy ‘how much’ he wanted to perform a sex act after contacting the account on the gay dating app.

The footage which shows the confrontation was posted onto Facebook Live yesterday and has been viewed more than 140,000 times.

As he is interrogated by the paedophile hunters, he tries desperately to cover his face with a scarf.

One of the hunters asks: ‘So, you’re a Muslim and it’s against your religion. Is it against your religion to be a homosexual?’

He replies: ‘Yes, it is. I could get killed.’

The hunter says: ‘There’s nothing wrong with being homosexual, no. But you’re saying to me it’s against your religion to be homosexual. So, you do know it’s wrong to meet, especially a child.’

Covering his mouth with his hand, he says: ‘I would get killed.’

The other hunter adds: ‘I don’t get how you could pray to any God knowing that you’re meeting 15-year-old guys.’

He then remains silent until the police arrive, and the hunters hand over their own evidence as he is taken away for questioning.

 

 

Paddock had multiple cell phones; girlfriend helped him load magazines in the Las Vegas shooting

A U.S. judge in Nevada unsealed the documents showing some of what federal agents learned about Stephen Paddock in the week after the Las Vegas shooting.

According to the documents, Stephen Paddock’s girlfriend told investigators they would probably find her fingerprints on bullets because she helped him load ammunition magazines.

Marilou Danley may not have been present when Paddock unleashed a furious barrage of bullets down on a crowd of 20,000 at a Las Vegas country music festival, murdering 58 people and wounding more than 500 others, but her links to his life seemed to be everywhere.

Prosecutors  also show that agents sought the email, Facebook and Instagram accounts of Paddock’s girlfriend, Marilou Danley. They revealed an exchange about a money wire transfer. Danley returned from a trip to the Philippines days after the shooting, but wasn’t arrested when she arrived in the United States.

Inside his hotel room, investigators found two unlocked cell phones. “Neither contained significant information that allowed investigators to determine the full scope of Stephen Paddock’s planning and preparation for the attack,” the documents said.

A third cell phone, which was locked, could not be accessed, according to the Los Angeles Times.

 

Investigators said he used anonymous communications devices, including a prepaid cellphone, to cover his tracks and employed a “level of sophistication which is commonly found in mass casualty events.”

Also unveiled on Friday: Emails Paddock had exchanged about buying rifles and bump stocks months before he carried out the mass shooting.

 

Paddock’s email address and the Gmail address had similar names, leading investigators to suspect that he may have been emailing himself, although they couldn’t figure out why.

FBI agents reportedly knew that Paddock had left behind big caches of guns, ammunition and explosives when they sought warrants to search his properties and online accounts, according to the documents.

 

Las Vegas Police Officer Aden Ocampo Gomez and FBI spokeswoman Sandra Breault said Friday that they had no update about Paddock’s motive.

Both called it an ongoing investigation.

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