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GroundUp reports that Muhsin Hendricks, an imam who was outspoken in his support of queer people in SA’s Muslim community, was murdered on Saturday in Gqeberha. He was reportedly the world’s first openly gay imam.
According to a statement by police spokesperson Captain Sandra Janse Van Rensburg, Hendricks was shot dead at Haley Place, Extension 24, Bethelsdorp. A widely circulated video shows a gold-coloured Volkswagen T-Roc – in which Hendricks was a passenger in the backseat – attempting to pull away from a curb in a residential area. A silver-colored Hilux double cab blocks the exit. Two people get out. One of them runs up to the T-Roc and opens fire towards the back window. It is hard to make out the precise actions of the second person who is less visible in the video. The driver in the T-Roc was left unscathed and nothing was stolen, which strongly suggests it was an assassination. Reportedly, Hendricks was in Gqeberha to officiate a wedding between two women. While political assassinations over money and power are not uncommon in South Africa, murders for purely ideological reasons are extremely unusual.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard at GroundUp
- Read too, Slain openly gay imam Muhsin Hendricks was to have presided over an interfaith marriage, at TimesLIVE
- En ook, Muhsin Hendricks-moord: ‘Ondersoek moontlikheid van haatmisdaad’, by Maroela Media
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