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Contents:

• FRANCE : IMAM ET GAYARTE REPORTAGE
• ARTE REPORTAGEA GAY IMAM
• FRANCE : IMAM ET GAYARTE REPORTAGE
• MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM
• THERE ARE 8 OPENLY GAY IMAMS THE WORLD: DAAYIEE ABDULLAH
• A GAY IMAM'S STORY: 'THE DIALOGUE IS OPEN ISLAM – 10 YEARS AGO WASN'T'
• IMAM FRANCE MARRI TWO GAY MLIMS

FRANCE : IMAM ET GAYARTE REPORTAGE

Ludovic-Mohamed-Zahed détonne dans le mon mulman: ce an-algérien t imam, bardé diplôm, ouvertement gay.

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. 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.

ARTE REPORTAGEA GAY IMAM

"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.

FRANCE : IMAM ET GAYARTE REPORTAGE

Hse Rashid, an adjunct profsor of relign at Hofstra Universy and ntributor to a report on homosexualy U.

“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.

"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.

MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM

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.

THERE ARE 8 OPENLY GAY IMAMS THE WORLD: DAAYIEE ABDULLAH

Muhs Hendricks, an openly gay imam Capetown, South Ai, has for years been leadg ngregants and preachg that homosexualy and Islam are not patible. Andre Carson, D-Ind., have both advoted for gay rights.

Ain-Amerin Daayiee Abdullah (62) is one of the few publicly gay imams the world. Do Islam approve of homosexualy? Durg my rearch Sdi Arabia, I found posive terpretatn on homosexualy Quran.

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

Is difficult to be a gay imam publicly? There are 12 gay imams the world and eight are openly gay.

IMAM FRANCE MARRI TWO GAY MLIMS

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.

Imam explas why some people are 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. “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.