Ismail ibn Musa Menk

Mufti Ismail ibn Musa Menk (born 27 June 1975) is a Zimbabwean Islamic scholar of Indian origin. He is the Grand Mufti of Zimbabwe’s Muslim community. In 2018 he published a collection of his sayings as a book titled Motivational Moments and in 2019 published the second edition, titled Motivational Moments 2. Menk was honoured with an Honorary Doctorate of Social Guidance. KSBEA 2015 Awards Global Leadership Award in Social Guidance. Menk as an “openly homophobic Islamic preacher” who has denounced the act of homosexuality as “filthy”. Menk’s controversial statement included these words: “How can you engage in acts of immorality with the same sex?  evev Allah speaks about how filthy this is… With all due respect to the animals, homosexuals are worse than animals.”