Khalil el-Moumni (Arabic: خليل المومني; 1 July 1941 – 21 November 2020, Oujda, Morocco) was a Moroccan imam who preached at the An-Nasr Mosque in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
[1] On 3 May 2001, he appeared on the Dutch television program Nova to discuss the rising incidence of anti-homosexual violence by Moroccan youths.
[3] Forty-nine individuals and organizations filed official complaints about his statements on the Nova program, under Dutch anti-discrimination laws.
However a drawn-out period of reconciliation followed, involving supporters of el-Moumni, Dutch politicians, homosexuals and religious groups, in which he was gradually moved to apologize.
On 4 April 2002 a court in Rotterdam announced its verdict: although in principle his statements had been discriminatory against homosexuals, they were permitted on grounds of freedom of religious expression, since they were based on the Qur'an and other Muslim documents.