FRANCE : IMAM AND GAY

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.

ARTE REPORTAGEA GAY IMAM

Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed is an exceptn the Mlim world: The French-Algerian imam is openly gay.

FRANCE : IMAM ET GAYARTE REPORTAGE

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. 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.

FRANCE : IMAM ET GAYARTE REPORTAGE

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

IMAM ET GAY, IL MARIE SANS DISTCTN - DAAYIEE ABDULLAH

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.

MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM

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 GAY

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.

IMAM ET GAY, IL MARIE SANS DISTCTN - DAAYIEE ABDULLAH

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.