“Sir Iqbal is regarded as a moderate and his comments were the latest in a long line of similar statements from mainstream Islamic leaders. These have in turn provoked outbursts of Islamophobia from sections of the gay community, with some activists at the Gay Pride parade last year berating Muslim marchers as ‘suicide bombers’ and a gay magazine categorising Islam as a ‘barmy doctrine’.”

A reasonably balanced article from Ben Hoyle in the Times, 7 January 2005