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BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh"><i>"If we'd been tght about LGBTQ relatnships at school, I don't thk I'd have been as prsed or suicidal as an adult."</i></strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh"><i>"Nobody unrstood me, they thought there was somethg wrong wh me for beg gay."</i></strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Ferhan Khan and Afshan D’souza-Lodhi both intify as queer, but also as Mlims.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Like many LGBTQ Mlims, they have both felt nflicted by their sexualy and their relign. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">In recent weeks, <a class="qNUzV q7LZa" data-ttid="next-lk-anchor" href="/news/2019-05-31/protters-agast-lgbt-teachg-banned-om-gatherg-outsi-birmgham-school"><span class="n6NlI"><strong class="_1ATDh">protters have gathered outsi Anrton Park Primary School Birmgham</strong></span></a>. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">The protters, the majory of whom are Mlim parents, are mandg lsons on LGBTQ relatnships are halted, sayg children are "too young" to unrstand what they are beg tght through storybooks. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">On both sis of the protts, there are strong feelgs about whether children should be tght about same sex relatnships. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">ITV News has spoken to LGBTQ Mlims about their experienc growg up and why they feel tn around same sex relatnships is important. </p><ul class="xhBdb" data-ttid="list"><li class="t9HgO" data-ttid="list-em"><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">"I jt want the protters to know that tn empowers children - but nothg they learn is gog to change who they love"</strong></p></li></ul><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"When I first went to see the protts I felt very aaid and timidated,” says Ferhan Khan.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">The London-based activist first travelled to see what was happeng at Anrton Park after jog one of the WhatsApp groups set up by those anisg the monstratns.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">In the group, they say they saw anisers sendg a variety of homophobic msag: "People where share stori about LGBTQ people and askg others if they wanted their children to end up like that.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"One of the stori was about Bra’s first gay Mlim weddg – they were nice stori, but surround by people sayg they didn’t what their kids to have an tn around that."</p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Attendg the protts brought back memori for Ferhan of growg up Glasgow, facg homophobia om those wh his fay and muny.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"Nobody unrstood me, they thought there was somethg wrong wh me for beg gay.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"Growg up, my father was spairg about how to al wh the gay issue – there was vlence and there was the distct fear of ostracisatn.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"I was told if I didn’t follow the l of beg straight and marryg a woman I’d go to hell and burn for all of eterny.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"At primary school the msag were rerced. Homosexualy was nmned as beg the end of days. I ask myself now why was okay to say that but not say ’s gog to be gay?"</p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Based on those experienc, Ferhan cid to nont his mons and speak to protters Birmgham directly.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"I was actually surprised when I first started talkg to people. I realised the protters aren't evil, they were welg and willg to talk.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"Many of them said the basis of their argument was they didn't want their children beg sexualised at a young age.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"There was a genue sire to build a bridge - they jt didn't want to lose ntrol of their children's mds.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"Some of them said would be fe their teenage years, but four is too young.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"Personally I don't thk four is too young. Equippg children at any age wh rmatn that is the public doma n only help. It's gog to stamp out homophobia om a very early age.</p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"In my personal experience, if I'd had that tn I would have had a much more passnate narrative for myself.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"I would have been more empowered to be who I am. I would have been able to achieve much more as a person and not be affected by negative self-teem agast myself.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"I know 's not possible to change your sexualy - is what is. I tried to change me to bee straight, you n't do , I know 's not possible. I jt want the protters to know that tn empowers children - but nothg they learn is gog to change who they love.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"It's so important, attacks like the one agast the uple on the b Camn are gettg worse. We're livg a much more polarised world. Part of that is bee people are havg the nfince to e out and be themselv - we need to te everyone that that's okay." </p><ul class="xhBdb" data-ttid="list"><li class="t9HgO" data-ttid="list-em"><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">"I was readg I was wrong and agast nature - and that led to me tryg to take my life"</strong></p></li></ul><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Activist and magaze edor Afshan, 27, om Manchter says: "I always knew I was queer, but didn’t have a word for .</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"I felt different to other people. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"I didn't start to procs when until I was about 14, around the same time I was troduced to the word 'bisexual'."</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Alongsi her work the arts, Afshan is a strong advote for more reprentatn society - cludg the classroom.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">Read more: </strong><a class="qNUzV q7LZa" data-ttid="next-lk-anchor" href="/news/2019-06-09/labour-mp-reported-to-chief-whip-for-backg-lgbt-teachg-protters"><span class="n6NlI"><strong class="_1ATDh">Labour MP reported to chief whip for backg LGBT teachg protters</strong></span></a></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">As a teenager stgglg to make sense of the world around her, Afshan turned to the ter for answers. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">What she found would shock her.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"I was told I was a sner.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"I was readg how homosexualy and Islam don't go together - really affected my mental health.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"To be told my sexualy nflicted wh my relign, and that ma me a sner the ey of God, was hard.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"I was readg I was wrong and agast nature - and that led to me tryg to take my life."</p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">In the years that followed, those onle readgs left Afshan nflicted.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Phg her away om relign, but at the same time wantg to embrace both parts of her inty.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"When I started at universy, I joed some LGBTQ clubs and started to meet more people like me.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"We would go out clubbg - but I still felt my queer inty and my Mlim fah uldn't go together.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"I've worn a headsrf sce I was six years old.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"At universy I'd wear my headsrf durg the day, but take off at night to go out to gay clubs.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"It was my way of differentiatg between my two sis - I didn't feel I uld wear them at the same time the same place and be the oppose to what people expected."</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">Read more: </strong><a class="qNUzV q7LZa" data-ttid="next-lk-anchor" href="/news/2016-06-12/victims-of-orlando-nightclub-massacre-named-by-police"><span class="n6NlI"><strong class="_1ATDh">The victims of the Orlando gay nightclub massacre</strong></span></a></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">When a gunman opened fire at an LGBTQ nightclub Florida, killg 49 and woundg 53, the world reiled horror.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">The shootg opened up a new range of issu for Afshan, puttg her a difficult posn of havg to fend her sexualy and her relign the same place and at the same time.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"It was really difficult to expla to people - I didn't feel accepted queer plac bee there was a lot of Islamophobia.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"I didn't feel accepted Islamic plac bee there was so much homophobia.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"I felt so nflicted."</p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Afshan says her stggl are weighted on the fact there was, and still is, very ltle reprentatn of LGBTQ people who are Mlim.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"A real turng pot for me was seeg a poster wh an Asian man wearg a weddg drs - I realised there are more people out there like me.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"It ma me thk wasn't some strange wtern thg, I hadn't been sexualised - I was jt me."</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Given the opportuny to speak to those behd the protts Birmgham, Afshan said she would try to expla to parents the importance of reprentatn at all levels and for all ag.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"Seeg reprentatn of people life humanis people - and shows people 's okay to be gay.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"It's not an easy thg - 's never gog to be easy - but you need someone who n show the way, everythg is down to terpretatn."</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">Read more: </strong><a class="qNUzV q7LZa" data-ttid="next-lk-anchor" href="/news/2019-06-03/tn-secretary-damian-hds-says-lgbt-protts-have-to-stop-outsi-birmgham-primary-school"><span class="n6NlI"><strong class="_1ATDh">Edutn Secretary says LGBT protts 'have to stop' outsi primary school</strong></span></a></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Now nfint and fortable wh who she is, she told ITV News: "It's my personal journey. People wh homophobic attus aren't gog to be there on judgement day - 's gog to be a nversatn between me and my God.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"We are judged by our actns, not other people's.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"Beg told I'm sful really annoys me.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"I'm told I'm the wrong, but other people don't thk about their own wrongdog.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"If you want to talk about the Koran sayg homosexualy is wrong, then let's also have a nversatn about mic and alhol."</p></div><footer data-ttid="article-footer"><div class="cQTzz C04KI" data-ttid="tag-list"><ul class="fHh0w"><li class="Jp5fE"><div class="aqX0o"></div><div data-ttid="tag" class="_6DWPQ xp9pO"><a class="HPL4j" data-ttid="tag-lk" href="/news/topic/lgbt"><span data-ttid="tag-text">LGBT+</span></a></div></li><li class="Jp5fE"><div class="aqX0o"></div><div data-ttid="tag" class="_6DWPQ xp9pO"><a class="HPL4j" data-ttid="tag-lk" href="/news/topic/mlim"><span 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Episo Three of ‘What’s The Chai?’ wh Jimmy Bangash (Gay Ex-Mlim and Spokperson for the Council of Ex-Mlims) and Khakan Qurhi (Gay Mlim and Founr of Birmgham South Asians LGBT- Fdg A Voice) on Should you be Gay and Mlim? Watch here.

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KHAKAN QURHI ON BIRMGHAM’S NO OUTSIRS PROTTS: ‘AS A GAY MLIM, I’M TRYG TO SEE OM BOTH SIS’

The row was allegedly sparked by a stunt's reactn to Khakan Qurhi sharg his experience of beg a gay Mlim * gay muslim birmingham *

Erdgton Amy Birmgham has provoked outrage amongst Mlim staff, pupils and parents by vg a “gay Mlim” who said the Quran do not prohib same-sex relatns to addrs pupils aged 11-13. On Tuday Erdgton Amy ved a “gay Mlim” lled Ash to do an onle power pot prentatn and speech durg an “enrichment day” ssn wh Year 7 and 8 pupils.

Parents have told 5Pillars that Ash, who said he was a Bengali Mlim om Birmgham, announced that he was a Mlim and gay and said he had read the Quran and hadhs and is “ok to be gay. There is nothg the Quran that says you n’t be gay, he said, addg that ’s up to terpretatn and you have old Mlims and new morn Mlims who terpret differently.

But when qutned by stunts about how he uld be Mlim and gay given Islam’s strict prohibn on same-sex sexual relatns, Ash replied that he lost his fah years ago but still knows lots of “gay Mlims. Sourc told 5Pillars that the onle ssn took place whout Mlim pupils or staff knowg that a “gay Mlim” would addrs the stunts.

POLICE NOTIFIED AS GAY MLIM SPEAKER RECEIV 'ONLE THREATS' AFTER WOOD GREEN AMY TALK

Parents have been prottg over relatnship tn, sayg is patible wh their relig valu. Where do the row leave gay Mlims? * gay muslim birmingham *

The prentatn clud imag of two men kissg and other imag and ptns promotg homosexualy, which, if acted upon, is nsired a major s by a nsens of Islamic scholars.

“Basilly, a guy was ved knowg full well that he was gay and Mlim and that he was gog to make a speech to majory Mlim kids and Mlim staff, and he has misquoted the Quran to say that ’s allowed to be gay and that the Quran says ’s ok. There is a profound difference between someone g and sayg ‘the are my experienc, ’ and someone g who has no expertise on Islamic theology and sayg ‘there is nothg wrong wh beg gay and Mlim or that there is nothg the Quran which preclus the typ of relatnships.

BIRMGHAM SCHOOL OUTRAGE BY VG ‘GAY MLIM’ TO ADDRS PUPILS

Protts by Mlims agast teachg about gay relatnships at their children’s primary me to a head last week. We meet the people ught between activists and the law * gay muslim birmingham *

I know, bee I was right at the ont, alongsi Andrew Moffat, the gay puty headteacher who is currently at the centre of the ntroversy surroundg the No Outsirs protts. The No Outsirs programme was origally created by Andrew for primary schools an attempt to rce homophobic bullyg and discrimatn.

I’ve tried to engage dialogue wh them and even though they claim not to be homophobic, the narrativ they provi are clearly homophobic nature. “It’s not okay beg a Mlim and beg homosexual.

We don’t believe homosexualy. And fally: “We’ve got no issue agast homosexual people, but don’t tell our children somethg that ntradicts their relig beliefs. As a gay Mlim, I’m tryg to see om both sis.

BIRMGHAM SCHOOL ROW: ‘THIS IS MA OUT TO BE JT MLIMS V GAYS. IT’S NOT’

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As a Mlim, we are brought up beg told “homosexualy is haram” (forbidn). This level of mass hysteria, toxic shamg of teachers, LGBTQ activists and mpaigners remds me of Sectn 28 – a clse brought at the time by a Conservative ernment which “banned the promotn of homosexualy schools as went agast the tradnal moral valu of a Christian fay and state”.

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The other part to this is my inty as a gay man.

The homophobia is apparent, wh some of even receivg ath threats onle, which have been reported to the var agenci.

I’m also aware that wh Eid jt around the rner, when we are supposed to be celebratg the theme of togetherns and happs, we are all beg monised and vilified, whether ’s homophobia or Islamophobia. “While we unrstand the tratns of the CEMB wh regard to the perceived stance of mastream Mlims on homosexualy, Imaan feels that the banners that the group marched wh serve only to epen divisns between muni. Imaan noted that the east London Mosque which was sgled out by the CEMB s prott had reacted wh posive ments agast homophobia – assertg that Islam do not promote hatred or homophobia and that the mosque had mounted mpaigns to to nmn ‘gay-hate’ stickers Tower Hamlets.

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“We’d like to formally ve east London mosque to a meetg to discs ways which together we n bat the surge of gay-phobia, lbian-phobia, bi-phobia and transphobia – perhaps at a jot event for Eid al Adha at east London Mosque. 8pm Saturday 24th June – The Big Gay Iftar partnership wh Pri London at St.

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He wr extensively the media about beg a gay Mlim, most recently the Guardian. Earlier this year he anised the big gay iftaar, which was featured on Channel 4.

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