Open Gay Mlim Imam Marseille Rais Debate on 'What's Islam' | Al Bawaba

Contents:

• 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

L’stut Calem, sué dans le 3e arrondissement Marseille et géré par le premier imam ouvertement gay France, forme s imams « progrsist » et s’t spécialisé dans l’accueil réfugiés LGBT.

À Sat-Mront, une moste maison ville abre l’stut Calem, fondé il y a 20 ans et dirigé par Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, 44 ans, premier imam ançais ouvertement homosexuel. « L mulmans, l migrants, l homosexuels pour certas ça fa trop », ironise-t-il. Ludovic Mohamed Zahed, Imam et homosexuel, dans la ur son stut, à Marseille.

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.

LGBTQI+IMAM ET GAY, IL OUVRE UN LI PRIèRE CLIF à MARSEILLE

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. Une poignée semae pl tard, il se retrouve avec cq amis, homosexuels et mulmans, dans le so-sol d’un fé du quartier du Marais, à Paris. Ils fonnt alors l’associatn s homosexuels mulmans France, puis ouvrent en 2012, à Paris, la première mosquée clive d’ après Ludovic Mohammed Zahed t ntacté par d’tr imams engagés dans la même voie d’ouverture, sentiellement à l’étranger en Amérique du Nord et en Aique du Sud, pour se stcturer et échanger.

Connu me le premier imam gay France et portr d'un islam ouvert sur l qutns LGBTQ, Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed t sur le pot d'ouvrir à Marseille un stut religix où "chacun. Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, l’imam gay Marseille - URBANIA FR. 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.

LUDOVIC MOHAMED ZAHED, THE GAY MARSEILLE IMAM WHO WANTS AN CLIVE ISLAM

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. 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.

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

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.

GAY MARSEILLE

For many people, beg gay and Mlim seems oxymoronic, patible to be openly both. 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. 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.

GAY IMAM HELPS YOUNG MLIMS BALANCE RELIGN, SEXUALY

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.

GAY IMAM HELPS YOUNG MLIMS BALANCE RELIGN, SEXUALY

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.