University of Manchester Student Union Executive launches investigation over anti-gay Muslim recording

 The University of Manchester’s Student Union Executive has launched an investigation after a student secretly filmed an extremist Muslim saying gay people should be killed.

The comments were secretly recorded by Middle East studies student Colin Cortbus at a public meeting organised by the Global Aspirations of Women student group at the University of Manchester’s Students’ Union on Wednesday 13 February.

When Mr Cortbus asked the chairperson of the meeting – whether “in the Islamic society in which you strive for,” would they “feel comfortable, personally and morally, to kill a gay man?”

The chair of the meeting replied: “Absolutely.”

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