Gays probably suffered from childhood emotional or sexual abuse: GZ mosque imam

New York, Jan 31 (ANI): The new imam at the Ground Zero mosque and cultural center has voiced his concern for homosexuals, saying that such people were probably abused in their childhood.

Abdallah Adhami, in a lecture on the Web site of his nonprofit, Sakeenah, said being gay is a "painful trial" caused by past trauma.

"An enormously overwhelming percentage of people struggle with homosexual feeling because of some form of violent emotional or sexual abuse at some point in their life," the New York Daily News quoted Adhami as saying.

"A small, tiny percentage of people are born with a natural inclination that they cannot explain. You find this in the animal kingdom at some level as well."

He also said that gays must fight this "propensity." (ANI)