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Contents:

• OUTRAGE AS FRENCH GAY IMAM SAID QURAN DON’T PROHIB HOMOSEXUALY
• MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM
• ARTE REPORTAGEA GAY IMAM
• FRANCE: AN OPENLY GAY IMAM
• IMAM FRANCE MARRI TWO GAY MLIMS
• LUDOVIC ZAHED ONE OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MUSLIM CLERICS IN THE WORLD
• A GAY IMAM'S STORY: 'THE DIALOGUE IS OPEN ISLAM – 10 YEARS AGO WASN'T'

OUTRAGE AS FRENCH GAY IMAM SAID QURAN DON’T PROHIB HOMOSEXUALY

A vio of a French gay “Imam” Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed France went viral after he ma a false claim that the Quran neher spoke nor forba homosexualy. He is a French-Algerian “Imam” and Islamic scholar who openly profs to be a gay Mlim.

The false claim issued by the “Gay Imam” quickly went viral on social media and sparked the anger of many Mlims as the claim was proven false.

Bis claimg that the Quran do not prohib homosexualy, Ludovic Zahed falsely claimed that the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) weled a “transgenr” man. Recently Ludovic Zahed, who intifi as a “gay imam” also received strong reactns after he was announced as a speaker at a nference Turkey. Participants were seen holdg banners wh slogans readg “Protect your fay and generatn” and urgg a ban on associatns fendg the rights of gay and transgenr people, whose monstratns have been banned recent years the untry.

MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM

Ludovic Mohammed Zahed traed as a prit Algeria, but only Marseille, France, did he dare talk about beg gay. He hop Gay Mlims n live their liv openly whout shame and fear. 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. Performg funeral r for a gay Mlim who died of AIDS.

But not all of them are gay.

ARTE REPORTAGEA GAY IMAM

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

IMAM FRANCE MARRI TWO GAY MLIMS

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

Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed is an exceptn the Mlim world: The French-Algerian imam is openly gay. May 17 is the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia.

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

This Wednday also marks exactly 10 years sce gay marriage beme legal France.

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.

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

”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. “It might be too early to ame this enuragg event as a trend, but is not too early to take as a remr to stop g homosexualy as a polil weapon agast Islam and relign general, ” Sivan, who served on the boards of Aguda, the Israeli Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr (LGBT) Associatn, the Jesalem Open Hoe and the Israeli board of the World Jewish Congrs, add that the “acceptance of homosexualy among muni of fah n only rult om activism om the si, om those who are mted to relign jt as much as they are mted to progrs. ”Wrg by email om New York to the Post, Jayson Ltman, the founr of He’bro, an anizatn for gay Jews, noted, “Any time we see gay men or women of fah marryg acrdance wh their relig beliefs and proud to do so, brgs the entire LGBT muny of fah one step closer acceptg the different parts of who we are.

” Many tim LGBT people om relig backgrounds e out as gay, but leave their fah the very closet they left, he said. ”Ludovic told al-Bawaba he has known he was gay sce he was young.

” 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”.