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

Contents:

• A GAY IMAM'S STORY: 'THE DIALOGUE IS OPEN ISLAM – 10 YEARS AGO WASN'T'
• IMAM FRANCE MARRI TWO GAY MLIMS
• THERE ARE 8 OPENLY GAY IMAMS THE WORLD: DAAYIEE ABDULLAH
• MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM
• LUDOVIC ZAHED ONE OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MUSLIM CLERICS IN THE WORLD
• LUDOVIC-MOHAMED ZAHED, UN IMAM à PART - MULMAN, GAY ET SéROPOSIF
• IMAM ET GAY, IL MARIE SANS DISTCTN - DAAYIEE ABDULLAH

A GAY IMAM'S STORY: 'THE DIALOGUE IS OPEN ISLAM – 10 YEARS AGO WASN'T'

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IMAM FRANCE MARRI TWO GAY MLIMS

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Vo lisez actuellement: Zahed, imam et homosexuel en France. Ludovic-Mohamed-Zahed détonne dans le mon mulman : ce an-algérien t imam, bardé diplôm, ouvertement gay. BERLIN – An imam France has approved the marriage of two men who had prevly married South Ai, where same-sex marriage is legal, but the French ernment ref to regnize Mlim spirual lear offered his blsg to French- Algerian Ludovic Mohamed Zahed and his partner, Qiyam al-D, a South Ain, durg a ceremony outsi Paris Febary News, Europe’s largt gay news service, reported on Monday about the marriage.

THERE ARE 8 OPENLY GAY IMAMS THE WORLD: DAAYIEE ABDULLAH

“I was the lecture hall when an imam – who cintally, is gay himself – troduced me to D. ”In an email to The Jesalem Post, Yoav Sivan, an Israeli journalist livg New York, who wr for Gay Cy News, noted that same-sex has been legal South Ai sce 2006. “It might be too early to ame this enuragg event as a trend, but is not too early to take as a remr to stop g homosexualy as a polil weapon agast Islam and relign general, ” Sivan, who served on the boards of Aguda, the Israeli Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr (LGBT) Associatn, the Jesalem Open Hoe and the Israeli board of the World Jewish Congrs, add that the “acceptance of homosexualy among muni of fah n only rult om activism om the si, om those who are mted to relign jt as much as they are mted to progrs.

”Wrg by email om New York to the Post, Jayson Ltman, the founr of He’bro, an anizatn for gay Jews, noted, “Any time we see gay men or women of fah marryg acrdance wh their relig beliefs and proud to do so, brgs the entire LGBT muny of fah one step closer acceptg the different parts of who we are. ” Many tim LGBT people om relig backgrounds e out as gay, but leave their fah the very closet they left, he said.

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MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM

Ain-Amerin Daayiee Abdullah (62) is one of the few publicly gay imams the world.

LUDOVIC ZAHED ONE OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MUSLIM CLERICS IN THE WORLD

Do Islam approve of homosexualy? Durg my rearch Sdi Arabia, I found posive terpretatn on homosexualy Quran. Is difficult to be a gay imam publicly?

There are 12 gay imams the world and eight are openly gay. It is not difficult for an dividual to be openly a gay imam but pends on the cultural ntext.

In the Wt, there is much more acceptance of gay imams or Mlim gays. But Imam Daayiee Abdullah – believed to be the only openly gay imam the Ameris – is proud of his story.

LUDOVIC-MOHAMED ZAHED, UN IMAM à PART - MULMAN, GAY ET SéROPOSIF

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.

IMAM ET GAY, IL MARIE SANS DISTCTN - DAAYIEE ABDULLAH

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.