侦探们本应与之交谈的一个人——至少就其暴力主张而言——是贾米尔·亚当斯。没有任何迹象表明亚当斯在谋杀中扮演任何角色或有任何知情。
One person detectives should have talked to—about his advocacy of violence, if nothing else—was Jameel Adams. There is nothing to suggest that Adams had any role in or knowledge of the killing.
他在2025年2月20日米切尔平原的讲话中，就在谋杀发生五天后，还告诉他的教众，根据南非法律，杀害亨德里克斯是“不被允许”的。
Speaking on Mitchell’s Plain on February 20th 2025, five days after the killing, he also told his congregation it hadn’t been “permissible” to kill Hendricks under South African law.
但他立即限定了这一说法，补充道，根据伊斯兰教法（沙里亚法），穆斯林必须“处决”他们队伍中的所有同性恋者。“处决他，对吧？”亚当斯说。“必须处决。”
But he immediately qualified his statement by adding that, under sharia (Islamic law), Muslims were required to “execute” all gays in their ranks. “Execute him, right?”Adams said.
他谈到亨德里克斯时说，现在“这个人被杀了……你被允许感到高兴。我们很高兴。我们摆脱了他。愿他得到安拉应有的报应。”这一观点也得到了贝特尔斯多普亚当斯追随者的认同。
“Must be executed.”Of Hendricks he said, now “that this person was killed…you are allowed to be happy. We are happy. We are free from him. May he get from Allah what he deserves.”
亨德里克斯遇害地点十分钟车程内是亚当斯的阿赫勒-苏纳赫基金会在伊本·泰米耶清真寺的当地据点，位于一个小型购物中心一楼的简陋房间。
That opinion was shared by Adams’s followers in Bethelsdorp.
在那里，驻扎伊玛目扎希尔·阿布拉姆斯告诉我，他认为亨德里克斯应当死去，尽管最好是能由沙里亚法庭来执行处决。阿布拉姆斯补充说，无论怎样发生，这起谋杀都有其好处。“在伊斯兰教中，关于同性婚姻和同性恋的噪音变少了，”他说。}
Ten minutes’ drive from where Hendricks was shot is the local base of Adams’s Ahlus-Sunnah foundation at ibn Taymiyyah mosque, a sparsely furnished room on the ground floor of a small shopping centre. There the resident imam, Zaahir Abrahams, told me that he believed Hendricks deserved to die, although it would have been preferable had he been executed by a sharia court. The killing had its benefits, Abrahams added, however it happened. “There is less noise around gay marriage and homosexuality in Islam,” he said.
