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This was the moment a Muslim woman branded homosexuality an "abomination" and appeared to back use of the death penalty to punish it.

In a shocking tirade on live radio, a caller named Zainab also equated gay people with paedophiles and claimed it was against her religion.

Her comments, strongly contradicted by another Muslim caller named Sohail Ahmed, enraged LBC presenter Iain Dale, who described her views as "disgusting".

During a fractious exchange, the openly gay radio host asked the 22-year-old caller, from Upney in east London, how society should treat gay people.

"My religion is very clear about gay people and you know what it says about gay people," she replied.

"I don't know what the exact punishment is in the Quran for gay people but it is death penalty."

Asked if she thought the Quran was right, she added: "I believe the Quran is the word of God."

At one point she appeared to accept that people should be allowed to be gay but said it was a "choice" that was incompatible with Islam.

Referring to another caller, she said: "If he wants to be that way, he can be that way.

"All I'm saying is don't get my religion into it. Don't twist my religion to say that it accepts gay people.

"No it does not accept gay people and it's against my religion."

Her comments came hours after the other caller, Mr Ahmed, had set up a stall outside Whitechapel station as part of a campaign to change attitudes towards homosexuality in the Islamic community.

He told the radio show he had struggled to reconcile being gay with his religion but branded the female caller "uneducated".

He said: "In a sense - and it might sound strange and it might sound disgusting - but I understand where she's coming from.

"But unfortunately, even though I understand where she's coming from, I believe she's wrong.

"And I vehemently believe she is wrong.

"That young woman, rather than being kind of bigoted individual or something, she's just rather what I would refer to as uneducated, perhaps, or naive."