• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

In which case, of course both you and Assembly Members are subject to the rulings of the Standards Board and events will have to take their course.

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Brian Coleman (Chair): Mr Johnson, would you like to respond to that? Darren Johnson (AM): The statement does not necessarily wholeheartedly promote the death sentence, but it does give justification to the death sentence for homosexuals. It does justify it. Therefore, I believe I was right. I would refer back to the debate we had in the Assembly in July when both the leader of the Labour group and the leader of the Liberal Democrat group both acknowledged at the start of their speeches that I was not motivated by Islamophobia and that nothing I had done in the past...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Mr Mayor, I wonder if you care to clarify in what way you think Mr Johnson is dishonest?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

That is the usual courtesy of the democratic process and one that this Assembly intends to continue. You were not suggesting Mr Johnson was dishonest.

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Mr Mayor, you will not insult Members of the Assembly and Members of this Assembly will not insult you.

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

I am sorry, Mr Mayor, you will not call Members of this Assembly dishonest.

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

I am sure you were not calling Mr Johnson dishonest were you, Mr Mayor?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

They looked at the Islam Online website and saw that statement justifying the death sentence for homosexuals and thought that was unacceptable, as many Londoners would think was unacceptable.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Gay Times said it was `the biggest political mistake of 2004' and that is not a Zionist magazine or a hotbed of Islamophobia as far as I am concerned.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Well, he is different because he has justified the death sentence.