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

Contents:

• FRANCE : IMAM ET GAYARTE REPORTAGE
• ARTE REPORTAGEA GAY IMAM
• FRANCE : IMAM ET GAYARTE REPORTAGE
• FRANCE : IMAM ET GAYARTE REPORTAGE
• IMAM ET GAY, IL MARIE SANS DISTCTN - DAAYIEE ABDULLAH
• MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM
• FRANCE : IMAM ET GAY
• IMAM ET GAY, IL MARIE SANS DISTCTN - DAAYIEE ABDULLAH

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.

ARTE REPORTAGEA GAY IMAM

Il assume son homosexualé, et n’hése pas à marier s personn même sexe.

» A 59 ans, Daayiee Abdullah t le premier imam ouvertement gay du mon occintal. "Un imam répond x bos sa munté"Dans l anné 1970, celui qui s’appela enre Sid Thompson viva à San Francis, «pendant un pic la propagatn du VIH»: «C personn qui étaient rejeté avant, avaient désormais une telle liberté qu’ils faisaient l’amour dès qu’ils le pouvaient, ce qui a mené vers la propagatn d’un vis me le VIH –qui ne s’t pas arrêté à la munté homosexuelle, puisque l hétéros ont le même portement.

FRANCE : IMAM ET GAYARTE REPORTAGE

En tant que gay, je ne voyais cune raison m’y opposer: il ava toujours s dros spiruels, je ne vois pas pourquoi on lui ôtera.

Et, pour dédramatiser, l’imam Daayiee propose en riant: «D à c hétérosexuels que ce sont x qui ont s enfants gays! 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.

"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.

FRANCE : IMAM ET GAYARTE REPORTAGE

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.

IMAM ET GAY, IL MARIE SANS DISTCTN - DAAYIEE ABDULLAH

“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. 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.

MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM

"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.

Though is unknown how many Amerin Mlims or Mlims around the world are gay, a growg number are vyg to be heard.

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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. Muhs Hendricks, an openly gay imam Capetown, South Ai, has for years been leadg ngregants and preachg that homosexualy and Islam are not patible.

IMAM ET GAY, IL MARIE SANS DISTCTN - DAAYIEE ABDULLAH

Andre Carson, D-Ind., have both advoted for gay rights.

” Khan was born to the Mlim fah, while Ty – who intifi as non-bary – is a recent pansexual uple are among a dozen or so people who have gathered to listen to Muhs Hendricks, often lled “the world’s first openly gay imam”. Unterred, he ntued to spread the msage that beg gay and Mlim are not patible, and is now the subject of a new documentary film, The Radil, which has s European premiere Berl this prayer at Masjadul Ghurbhh. ”In 2011 Hendricks bolstered his role as an imam figure by settg up a mosque space after a iend endured a lol sermon nmng homosexualy.