Shot SF victim in the face because he was Gay

New details emerging in the case of the three Muslim men who shot a Gay man outside a bar on Guerrero Street last week.

From the SF Appeal online newspaper, March 5:

spokesman Officer Samson Chan said... while officers were interviewing him [the victim of the crime] outside the bar, he spotted the same vehicle again driving by...

Police pulled the car over and found three men inside with a "rifle-style" BB gun and a video camera, which investigators later discovered had recorded the shooting, according to Chan.

The three men, Shafiq Hashemi, 21, Sayed Bassam, 21, and Mohammad Habibzada, 24, the driver, were arrested.

"The suspects did make a confession, basically stating that they came to San Francisco to target gay people," he said.

International Fatwa to Attack Gays

The Gay press from California to the East Coast has been reporting on the story, yet it has yet to break into the mainstream media outside of the Bay Area.

From Boston The Edge, "Three Arrested for Anti-Gay Attack" March 5:

The men, all 24 years old and all cousins, videotaped the attack, which was carried out at about 10:00 p.m. on Feb. 26. The victim was shot in the face... Authorities said they believed the men targeted the victim because of his sexuality.

A tenet of the Muslim religion as interpreted by some Islamic scholars is that active homosexuals should be put to death.

U.K.-based Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary, whose past sermons have included warning Muslims to "protect" their families from Christmas or face "hellfire," told the media last year that the religion prescribes death by stoning not only for sexually active gays, but also for heterosexual adulterers. Choudary indicated that being gay was not in itself sinful, saying, "If a man likes another man, it can happen, but if you go on to fulfill your desire, if it is proved, then there is a punishment to follow." However, the cleric said, "You don’t stone to death unless there are four eyewitnesses. It is a very stringent procedure." Choudhury then compared gay intimacy to bestiality, saying, "There are some people who are attracted to donkeys, but that does not mean it is right."