A Muslim academic has opened a gay-friendly mosque in
South Africa, despite receiving death threats and fierce criticism from parts
of the local Muslim community.
"We are opening the mosque for open-minded people, not closed-minded people," Mr Hargey told the BBC.
He says the mosque will help counter growing Islamic radicalism.
Mr Hargey, a professor at the Muslim Educational Centre of Oxford in the UK, told the BBC's Newsday programme it was time for a "religious revolution".
"In South Africa 20 years ago, there was a peaceful revolution changing from apartheid to democracy and we need to have a similar development in the area of religion," he said.
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