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. Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed is an exceptn the Mlim world: The French-Algerian imam is openly gay. Il assume son homosexualé, et n’hése pas à marier s personn même sexe.

ARTE REPORTAGEA GAY IMAM

» 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. 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.

FRANCE : IMAM ET GAYARTE REPORTAGE

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.

FRANCE : IMAM ET GAYARTE REPORTAGE

"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.

IMAM ET GAY, IL MARIE SANS DISTCTN - DAAYIEE ABDULLAH

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.

MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM

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

FRANCE : IMAM ET GAY

The film “I Am Gay and Mlim” tracks several gay Morocn men as they explore their relig and sexual inti.

IMAM ET GAY, IL MARIE SANS DISTCTN - DAAYIEE ABDULLAH

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.