MARSEILLE, France (AP) — Growg up Algeria, Shaira had almost everythg a young man uld wish for. But he also had a big secret. In a land where homosexualy is still a crime and a s, he was forced to live a secret life, hidg that he was gay om everyone — even his clost fay. The 26-year-old Shaira, who asked that his last name not be ed to protect himself om attacks, went to study France four years ago and has never gone back to Algeria. His fay still has no ia of his sexualy. Now a gay imam om Algeria is workg wh a lol lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr associatn to unsel and protect Shaira and other young gay Mlims who make their way to the ancient French port cy of Marseille. The Le Refuge group says has helped 26 gays fd shelter and start a new life Marseille last year. Some eventually go back to their fai. Homosexualy is a crimal offense much of the Middle East — punishable by imprisonment or, untri like Sdi Arabia, by ath. In Algeria, homosexual acts are punishable by up to two years prison and a fe. Islam nsirs homosexualy a s. Men havg sex wh each other should be punished, the Quran says, but don't say how — and adds that they should be left alone if they repent. The ath penalty verdict stead om the Hadh, or acunts of the saygs of the Prophet Muhammad. The acunts differ on the method of killg, and some acunts give lser penalti some circumstanc. The Islamic State group has taken this to an extreme. Vios the group has released show masked ants danglg allegedly gay men over the sis of buildgs by their legs and droppg them head-first or tossg them over the edge. It is believed that at least three dozen men Syria and Iraq have been killed by IS over accatns of sodomy. Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed is an imam born Algeria who now works Marseille and ns an associatn of French Mlims and gays. He has known the discrimatn faced by the young people who e to Le Refuge for help. "Personally I have received que a lot of threats, but I saw more people e to enurage me ... sayg you are an embodiment of real Islam," Zahed said. The lol head of Le Refuge Marseille, Christophe Chsse, says the group tri to unsel young gays about how to pe wh the nstant nflict between their sexualy and their relign. "For them, there is a real dilemma between — 'I am or I feel homosexual, and I have my relign, my fah which prohibs , so I nnot live this homosexualy,'" Chsse said. Shaira cri as he talks about this nflict that he battl every day. "Everybody is tellg me — 'you are gay, you are Mlim and this is not normal,'" Shaira said. "But I feel that I have the same right to have a relign as everybody else. Even if I'm gay." ___ Greg Keller reported om Paris. Follow him on Twter at ___ Onle:
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- À MARSEILLE, UN IMAM GAY HéBERGE S RéFUGIéS LGBT
- LGBTQI+IMAM ET GAY, IL OUVRE UN LI PRIèRE CLIF à MARSEILLE
- LUDOVIC MOHAMED ZAHED, THE GAY MARSEILLE IMAM WHO WANTS AN CLIVE ISLAM
- LUDOVIC ZAHED ONE OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MUSLIM CLERICS IN THE WORLD
- GAY MARSEILLE
- GAY IMAM HELPS YOUNG MLIMS BALANCE RELIGN, SEXUALY
- GAY IMAM HELPS YOUNG MLIMS BALANCE RELIGN, SEXUALY
- OPEN GAY MLIM IMAM MARSEILLE RAIS DEBATE ON 'WHAT'S ISLAM'
À MARSEILLE, UN IMAM GAY HéBERGE S RéFUGIéS LGBT
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Après s étus à Paris à l’ENS et l’EHESS, il ie en 2010 l’associatn s homosexuels mulmans France, puis ouvre en 2012 la première mosquée clive d’ 2019, il crée à Marseille l’stut Calem, avec pour objet, notamment, la formatn d’imams à un islam clif et progrsiste.
Imam ouvertement homosexuel, il a créé ici un stut recherche, publitn et formatn pour imams dédié à un islam clif et progrsiste. A bientôt 44 ans, celui qui se bat ntre un islam « patriarl, antiséme et homophobe », a largement passé l’âge s dout l’ hte formatn universaire, notamment passé par l’ENS et l’EHESS Paris, tulaire ux doctorats, d’anthropologie et psychologie, Ludovic Mohamed Zahed sue son champ d’actn à la croisée s discipl. En 2019, il publie Homosexualé et Transinté en Islam, une étu ranique du genre et la sexualé, où il entend démontrer que l terprétatns ndamnant l homosexuels et l personn trans, sont héré text x orig douts, terprétés pour servir s térêts souvent poliqu.
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Ludovic Mohamed Zahed, imam and homosexual, created Marseille a rearch, publitn and trag stute dited to an clive and progrsive Islam.
After studyg Paris at ENS and EHESS, 2010 he iated the associatn of Mlim homosexuals France, then 2012 opened the first clive mosque Europe. Openly homosexual imam, he created here a rearch, publitn and trag stute for imams dited to an clive and progrsive Islam. At almost 44 years old, the one who fights agast a "patriarchal, anti-Semic and homophobic" Islam, has largely passed the age of doubts of adolcence.
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In 2019, he published Homosexualy and Transinty Islam, a Koranic study of genr and sexualy, which he tends to monstrate that terpretatns nmng homosexuals and trans people are hered om texts of dub origs, often terpreted to serve terts. A handful of weeks later, he fds himself wh five iends, gay and Mlim, the basement of a fé the Marais district of Paris.
They then found the associatn of Mlim homosexuals France, then opened 2012, Paris, the first clive mosque Europe. Is Marseille beg gay iendly? Homosexualy.
Homosexual. For many people, beg gay and Mlim seems oxymoronic, patible to be openly both.
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But Ludovic Zahed, the first out gay imam Europe and one of the first openly gay Mlim clerics the world, has ma his life’s missn to bridge the gap between the two seemgly disparate worlds by challengg the domant, closed-md, tolerant terpretatn of Islam. At the age of twelve his homosexualy was awakened when he started havg feelgs for an olr iend, then later as a teen Zahed dated a Frenchman.
GAY IMAM HELPS YOUNG MLIMS BALANCE RELIGN, SEXUALY
When he fally accepted beg gay and began explorg his sexualy while at universy Algeria, he felt he had to leave Islam behd. “I uldn’t really unrstand how my homosexualy uld be so vlently rejected, spe the fact I had done nothg wrong and was tryg to live a good life.
Subsequently he traveled to Tibet and wnsed homophobia there as well. Ludovic then cid to return to his Islamic roots and explore s teachgs more eply, but “The only reprentatn of Islam I had ever experienced was a fascist, misogynistic, anti-semic and homophobic one, which I strongly reject as reprentg my spirual tradn that I believe is spired by peace.
Mastream Islam nsirs homosexualy a s, and ’s a crimal offense most Arab and Mlim untri, punishable by imprisonment or, as Sdi Arabia and Iran, even ath. Islamic State groups such as the Taliban and ISIS have taken this to an extreme, relishg public beheadgs or tossg homosexuals off of roof tops.
OPEN GAY MLIM IMAM MARSEILLE RAIS DEBATE ON 'WHAT'S ISLAM'
This prevailg sentiment forc many homosexuals unrground and to miserable marriag. Dpe the pronouncements of many Mlim scholars, the Quran and Hadh’s stance on homosexualy is far more plex than most Mlims realize.
For centuri Arab-Mlim societi were more tolerant of homosexualy than European on, but sce the early 20th century, the tabl have turned. Most Wtern untri have creasgly enacted LGBTQ-iendly laws, while homophobic views predomate the Mlim world. One ntent analysis emerg om postlonial theory claimg that wterners troduced homophobia to Islam, a culture that prevly had neher a ncept nor a problem wh same-sex attractn.
After studyg Islamic theology for five years, Ludovic pleted his humani doctorate on the topic “Sexual Mori at the Vanguard of Chang the Islam of France” and published his this on “LGBT Mlims facg Obscurantism and Homo-natnalism. Though 2010 he found the anizatn HM2F, Homosexuel(l) mulman() France (Mlim Homosexuals of France), as well as the associatn for young French people livg wh HIV/AIDS (TMDES), his path to beg a functng imam was sparked om an unexpected directn. Its openg was met wh mixed rponse om the France’s Mlim muny; the spokman for the Grand Mosque of Paris cried that Ludovic’s prayer room was “outsi the Islamic muny” and that “the Quran nmns homosexualy.