A vio of a French gay "Imam" Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed France went viral after he ma a false claim that the Quran neher spoke nor forba homosexualy.
Contents:
- OUTRAGE AS FRENCH GAY IMAM SAID QURAN DON’T PROHIB HOMOSEXUALY
- A GAY IMAM'S STORY: 'THE DIALOGUE IS OPEN ISLAM – 10 YEARS AGO WASN'T'
- FRANCE: AN OPENLY GAY IMAM
- ARTE REPORTAGEA GAY IMAM
- MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM
OUTRAGE AS FRENCH GAY IMAM SAID QURAN DON’T PROHIB HOMOSEXUALY
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A vio of a French gay “Imam” Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed France went viral after he ma a false claim that the Quran neher spoke nor forba homosexualy. He is a French-Algerian “Imam” and Islamic scholar who openly profs to be a gay Mlim. The false claim issued by the “Gay Imam” quickly went viral on social media and sparked the anger of many Mlims as the claim was proven false.
Bis claimg that the Quran do not prohib homosexualy, Ludovic Zahed falsely claimed that the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) weled a “transgenr” man.
A GAY IMAM'S STORY: 'THE DIALOGUE IS OPEN ISLAM – 10 YEARS AGO WASN'T'
Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed has risked anger and jury to further the e of gay Mlims. Ten years after he tablished Europe's first clive mosque, he explor what has changed. * french gay imam *
Recently Ludovic Zahed, who intifi as a “gay imam” also received strong reactns after he was announced as a speaker at a nference Turkey. Participants were seen holdg banners wh slogans readg “Protect your fay and generatn” and urgg a ban on associatns fendg the rights of gay and transgenr people, whose monstratns have been banned recent years the untry.
Ludovic Mohammed Zahed traed as a prit Algeria, but only Marseille, France, did he dare talk about beg gay.
He hop Gay Mlims n live their liv openly whout shame and fear. Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed is an exceptn the Mlim world: The French-Algerian imam is openly gay. But Imam Daayiee Abdullah – believed to be the only openly gay imam the Ameris – is proud of his story.
FRANCE: AN OPENLY GAY IMAM
Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed (born 1977) is a French-Algerian. An openly gay Mlim, Zahed is the founr of the first European clive mosque, Paris, France, wh the goal of acmodatg the LGBT and femist Mlim muni. * french gay imam *
But as a gay man Ameri, he saw that lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Mlims had unmet spirual needs and he beme an imam to provi muny support. "Beg an openly gay imam and havg been intified as such, I do get a lot of feedback and also kickback, but that's OK, " said Imam Daayiee Abdullah, of Washgton, D. Performg funeral r for a gay Mlim who died of AIDS.
But not all of them are gay. Many worshippers at the Light of Reform Mosque are not gay. "Beg an openly gay imam and havg been intified as such, I do get a lot of feedback and also kickback, but that's OK, ” he said.
“If you go to most Mlim scholars, they're gog to tell you that homosexual acts are a s Islam; that there's no way around , ” said Dr. Hse Rashid, an adjunct profsor of relign at Hofstra Universy and ntributor to a report on homosexualy U.
ARTE REPORTAGEA GAY IMAM
“But the tradn was and remas that homosexualy is a s Mlim tradn.
The var scholars who ntributed to the project’s report emphasized that there is no sgular terpretatn of homosexualy Islam.
MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM
"I thk Daayiee is tryg to say, 'Y, I n be gay and I n be a Mlim, and I n tend to people who are also gay and Mlim, ' that this is part of their inty as a human beg and that the relign of Islam teach people to embrace all aspects of their humany, " he said. Though is unknown how many Amerin Mlims or Mlims around the world are gay, a growg number are vyg to be heard. The film “I Am Gay and Mlim” tracks several gay Morocn men as they explore their relig and sexual inti.
Last year, a gay-iendly mosque opened Paris – Europe’s first. Muhs Hendricks, an openly gay imam Capetown, South Ai, has for years been leadg ngregants and preachg that homosexualy and Islam are not patible.