Scientist Imam threatened over Darwinist views

[Kristoffer]

By Tom Peck and Jerome Taylor

A prominent British imam has been forced to retract his claims that Islam is compatible with Darwin's theory of evolution after receiving death threats from fundamentalists.

Dr Usama Hasan, a physics lecturer at Middlesex University and a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, was intending yesterday to return to Masjid al-Tawhid, a mosque in Leyton, East London, for the first time since he delivered a lecture there entitled "Islam and the theory of evolution"....

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho ... 32952.html

Seems like its still the dark ages for some people.