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A Muslim woman's views were slammed as "disgusting" by a radio presenter after she said gay people should be killed.

Speaking during a phone in on LBC , Zainab, 22, told presenter Iain Dale, who is himself openly gay, she believed homosexuality was against Islam and gay people should suffer the penalty given in the Koran, which is death.

The young Muslim girl spoke during a discussion with Sohail Ahmed , 23, an openly gay Muslim who has been trying to change people's minds with a stall outside Whitechapel Tube Station.

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Zainab told Iain: "We don't hide the fact were against homosexuality. If you want to be gay go ahead and be gay. Why do you have to twist my religion, why do you have to say you're Muslim and gay?"

"My religion is very clear what happens to gay people, you know what it says about gay people."

Iain asked her to clarify if she meant "you think the Koran is right and all gay people should be put to death".

(Image: Sohail Ahmed/Twitter)

She replied: "I don't know what the exact punishment in the Koran is but it is the death penalty. I believe the Koran is the word of God."

Iain told her: "Whoever had indoctrinated you with these views, your parents, should be ashamed of themselves for they way they have brought you up if these are the things you really believe."

The half Pakistani, half Brit also said homosexuality was a choice promoted by Western media, fashion and shops.

She ended by saying her parents were proud of her because she was not gay.

Speaking after her call, Iain slammed her for her dogmatic views, adding: "You think it's OK to come on the radio and basically say all gay people should be killed because your religion tells you that, you disgust me."

But Sohail, who was listening to the call, said he had understood her views, because they were ones he himself had held until just over a year ago.

Last year, Sohail was a student hate preacher who radicalised at least one British jihadi in Syria and seriously considered mounting a suicide bomb attack in London.

He said he had known he was gay since the age of seven and had at first thought it was normal until he began to realise it was against his religion.

He said: "I slowly began to realise being gay is against my religion. Gay people are meant to be thrown off buildings and stoned to death.

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"Throughout my entire life I believed I was someone evil, someone terrible and somehow demonic, I was possibly possessed by the devil. I tried everything in my power, I cried and I prayed every night. I begged the Lord to turn me straight. I even watched straight porn, none of it worked".

"The only way I accepted myself as gay was when I decided to review all the scientific research on human sexuality. That was last year at the age of 22. I only accepted myself as gay because I looked at the scientific research on the topic. I didn't really trust my own feelings how I felt inside."