;.to what extent he has been forced to moderate his views to appeal to his culturally conservative Muslim audience?

"Not at all", he insists. He is, “a long-standing, lifelong supporter of gay rights", for example.

“I say to any Muslim who questions me on that, if you allow people to discriminate against people on grounds of sexual orientation, you’re next - because the discriminators, the bigots, don’t just hate gays.

They hate gays, they hate blacks, they hate Muslims, they hate immigrants.”

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