Contents:
- I'M GAY AND MLIM. I SAW MYSELF THE QURAN
- GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE
- CAN A MLIM BE GAY?
I'M GAY AND MLIM. I SAW MYSELF THE QURAN
The Orlando shootg was a hate crime agast gay people – even if, once emerged that the attacker had been a Mlim, many people claimed this as a terrorist attack rather than a hate crime. Sce the massacre there has been a lot of speculatn about Islam and homosexualy and there are fears that one man’s spible act of terrorism uld fan the flam of Islamophobia and other forms of social excln, leadg to disrd and unrt an era of elevated Islamophobia.
GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE
It is difficult to fe the “Islamic posn” on homosexualy, as a monolhic phenomenon, simply bee Islam is a very diverse fah group wh some 1.
CAN A MLIM BE GAY?
In most Mlim untri, homosexualy is illegal and some untri, cludg Iran and Sdi Arabia, is punishable by ath.
But others, such as Jordan and Turkey, homosexualy is not nsired a crime.
Most Islamic scholars are agreement that homosexualy is patible wh Islamic theology.