Meet Ameri’s First Openly Gay Imam | Al Jazeera Ameri

Contents:

• AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY
• HALIFAX'S FIRST GAY-IENDLY MOSQUE OPENG THIS SUMMER
• MEET THE IMAM OF AI’S FIRST GAY-IENDLY MOSQUE
• TORONTO MOSQUE IS GAY IENDLY, MIXED GENR PRAYERS LED BY A WOMAN
• MLIM KANADA AKAN BANGUN MASJID UNT GAY DAN TRANSGENR
• “MASJID” KM GAY RENNA AKAN DI BA DI KANADA
• MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• GAY MOSQUE PLANNED CANADA
• ASTAGHFILLAH, MASJID KH GAY DAN TRANSGENR AKAN DIBANGUN

AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY

Today is the Internatnal Day agast Homophobia. In general, is strange that this phenomenon still exists, bee gay people are everywhere, and no matter how different medieval figur try to “cure” or kill them, is impossible. Today, even the state media of aternal Cha allow themselv to openly exprs support for homosexuals.

Sadly, relign remas the ma stronghold of the fight agast gays. But the Orthodox and pecially Islamic environment, gay people are still beg stigmatized. But what should a vout Mlim do if he is gay?

HALIFAX'S FIRST GAY-IENDLY MOSQUE OPENG THIS SUMMER

But the worst thg (om the pot of view of Islam) is not even that gays n e here.

MEET THE IMAM OF AI’S FIRST GAY-IENDLY MOSQUE

After all, gays also go to ordary mosqu, they simply do not reveal themselv. Imam El-Faro Khaki -found Toronto's first LGBTQ-iendly mosque, Uny Mosque, 10 years ago to allow lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer Mlims to attend prayers whout havg to hi their sexual orientatn or genr inty for fear of discrimatn.

TORONTO MOSQUE IS GAY IENDLY, MIXED GENR PRAYERS LED BY A WOMAN

INTERPRETATIONGay Mlim scholar Stt Siraj al-Haqq Kugle has spent two s rearchg LGBTQ issu the Islamic fah and said many people are surprised to disver that Islam is not herently nmng of LGBTQ people.

MLIM KANADA AKAN BANGUN MASJID UNT GAY DAN TRANSGENR

“In the Quran, there is no word that explicly scrib homosexual or transgenr persons; the Arabic terms were vented after the Quran’s revelatn, by medieval jurists and ntemporary journalists, doctors and social crics. FINDING ‘A MIDDLE GROUND’Tugay Sarac was 13 when his father died eight years ago.

“I thought I n't be Mlim and gay at the same time, ” he said. “This went on for a few years until I went to the Ibn Rhd-Goethe Mosque, where I realized that is actually possible to be Mlim and gay.

“MASJID” KM GAY RENNA AKAN DI BA DI KANADA

”Tugay Sarac is the LGBTQ ordator of Ibn Rhd-Goethe Mosque, the only self-scribed liberal mosque Germany.

Courty of Tugay SaracIbn Rhd-Goethe Mosque is the only self-scribed liberal mosque Germany. “I know that many gay Mlims turn to radil ias bee they want to cure themselv om homosexualy, ” Sarac explaed.

MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM

“Mosqu like Ibn Rhd-Goethe n give people a place to be gay and Mlim. Acrdg to a 2017 Pew Rearch Center survey of Amerin Mlims, a majory (52 percent) believe society should accept homosexualy, pared wh jt 27 percent 2007.

K., however, Mlims are ls acceptg of homosexualy. A 2016 ICM Unlimed survey found only 18 percent of Brish Mlims agreed that homosexualy should be legal Bra. ‘INCLUSIVE AND RELEVANT’Like Kugle, Imam Daayiee Abdullah, one of the first openly gay imams the U.

S., believ the prevalent view of homosexualy as a s current Islamic teachg is rooted tradn, rather than scripture. “Many tradns are locked to a particular time, place and culture — they're not necsarily appropriate for today or for people who will be worshippg 50 years om now, ” Abdullah Daayiee Abdullah, founr of the Mec Instute, is one of the first openly gay Imams the U.

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

E: I lerally knew nobody else that, you know, intified as such - plenty of Christians, even some Jewish dividuals, but not Other relig muni are havg the same ternal stggl about cln and homophobia. A survey by Pew Rearch Center asked people whether, quote, "homosexualy should be accepted by society.

Nova StiaNova Stia’s first gay-iendly mosque is set to open the next few weeks.

GAY MOSQUE PLANNED CANADA

Halifax is set to get s first gay-iendly mosque this summer. (Shutterstock/Nando Machado)Nova Stia’s first gay-iendly mosque is set to open the next few Halifax Uny Mosque is an expansn of the Toronto Uny Mosque, also lled el-Tawhid Juma mosque is a “genr-equal, LGBTI/queer-affirmg” place for Mlims to worship, acrdg to s Facebook page. Many Mlims live untri where beg gay is a crime.

He argu that homophobia was brought to Islam, and isn’t a natural part of .

ASTAGHFILLAH, MASJID KH GAY DAN TRANSGENR AKAN DIBANGUN

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The mosque is gay and lbian iendly, and believ genr equaly. The El-Tawhid Juma Circle was tablished May 2009 by Silvers, a Universy of Toronto relig studi scholar, alongsi Mlim gay-rights activists El-Faro Khaki and Troy Jackson. To ensure their gathergs are a safe place, cludg for homosexual members who may not be publicly out, the mosque keeps s downtown lotn secret (terted atten learn where to go by quirg through the group’s webse.