You may or may not think Pat Robertson’s latest comment about Ariel Sharon being struck down by God was incredibly stupid. (I do.)

But stupid though it may have been, it’s a long way from this kind of religious supremacism: Son killed ‘for not changing to Islam’. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

And this is going on in Britain.

A mother described yesterday hearing her son shot dead after he refused to convert to Islam.

Ruth Marriott told an inquest into her son’s death that she heard gunshots on the day Adrian was shot five times in the head a few weeks before his 21st birthday.

Mr Marriott, an accountancy student and gang member, was killed in a park near his home in Brixton, south London, in June 2004.

Three members of a rival gang, known as the Muslim Boys, were cleared in September last year of conspiracy to murder Mr Marriott after the prosecution offered no evidence at the Old Bailey.

His mother told the inquest at Southwark Coroners’ Court yesterday: “We heard the shooting. We heard gun fire.

”The thought did strike me that Adrian could be involved, but it was a fleeting thought. Then we heard from police the following evening what had happened.

“Adrian was told on the Sunday prior to his death that he would be killed if he did not become a Muslim by the Wednesday, which was the day he died.”