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Adam Yosef, born 6 September 1981, is a journalist, community worker and political activist in the United Kingdom who writes a regular column for national entertainment weekly Desi Xpress.

Background

Born in Marston Green in the West Midlands, Yosef was educated mainly in Birmingham. In 2001, following the September 11th attacks, Yosef became involved with the Birmingham Stop the War Coalition. He went on to work as PR Officer for the Birmingham Mosque Trust, maintaining the public image of the charity and its chairman, Dr Mohammad Naseem.

He began working for Urban Media in 2005, writing for Midlands community newspaper, The Asian Leader, now The Asian Today, and for entertainment publication Desi Xpress. He is also a regular writer for BBC Online and works closely with BBC Birmingham, with most of his work highlighting issues of socio-politics, diversity, culture, racism and religion.

Alongside writing, he is co-founder of the interfaith Saltley Gate Peace Group, a member of community empowerment organisation Birmingham Citizens and Community & Interfaith Liaison Officer for the Birmingham Stop the War Coalition. Adam Yosef was also Press Officer for Salma Yaqoob and is said to be politically affiliated with RESPECT The Unity Coalition and the Socialist Worker's Party.

Attitude to gay rights

In the December 2005 of the British Asian newspaper Desi Xpress (Issue 42), he made allegedly homophobic remarks about the UK's new civil partnership law for same-sex couples, including remarks such as "Hmmm... gay weddings... Gay people and committment? I don't think so... They'll be shagging the neighbours before they even cut the cake. Bad idea I'm afraid. Great way of evading tax though...". He later apologised in the same newspaper[1].

In January 2006, he subsequently wrote another article for the same newspaper on bigotry, in which he compared gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, who had condemned his December article[2], to the leader of the far-right British National Party, Nick Griffin, and also to Omar Bakri Mohammed, a radical Islamist cleric. He also said that Tatchell "needs a good slap in the face" and that he and his "queer campaign army" should "pack their bent bags and head back to Australia."


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