A reggae performer whose music advocates killing gays says he has nothing to apologize for, instead claiming it is gays who must beg forgiveness.
"They can't ask me to apologize," Sizzla told BBC radio on Thursday. "They've got to apologize to God because they break God's law."
Sizzla, whose real name is Miguel Collins, is one of the largest selling reggae artists in the UK.
His hit tune Pump Up has the line ?Shot battybwoy, my big gun boom (Shoot queers, my big gun goes boom)?.
He has consistently refused calls for an apology and continues to perform the song.
At a concert in Chicago in April 2002 he told the audience: ?I won?t take back my words?I kill sodomites and queers, they bring AIDS and disease upon people?shoot and kill them?.
Earlier this month the British government refused to allow Sizzla into the UK. He is currently under investigation to determine if his music violates Britain's anti-hate laws.
Sizzla's interview with the BBC was his first since the Metropolitan Police announced their investigation.
"Why must I apologize to corruption? How can I do that?" he told the station, adding he is not a threat to gay men and lesbians.
"I sing 'fire burn for homosexuals' and sometime in some street I walk, I see them and me no touch them," he said.
"If I don't like what you're doing I don't come there, if you don't like what I'm doing or what I say you don't come where I'm at."
But, British gay rights group Outrage, which has been leading the attack on Sizzla and other reggae performers accused of spreading homophobia says that the music has helped fuel an increase in gay-hate crimes in the UK.
On October 31, gay man was beaten to death in a park in what investigators called a homophobic attack. David Morley, 37, suffered serious head injuries in the beating. He died in hospital several hours later. His murder led to the cancellation of Sizzla's visa days before he was to have appeared in London.
