Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed has risked anger and jury to further the e of gay Mlims. Ten years after he tablished Europe's first clive mosque, he explor what has changed.
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. * gay french imam *
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.
MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM
Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed is an exceptn the Mlim world: The French-Algerian imam is openly gay. For the past ten year he has led a progrsive and clive movement promotg an Islam that rpects the LGBT+ muny, women’s right, and terfah dialogue. * gay french imam *
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. 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.
ARTE REPORTAGEA GAY IMAM
Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed (born 1977) is a French-Algerian. An openly gay Mlim, Zahed is the founr of the first European clive mosque, Paris, France, wh the goal of acmodatg the LGBT and femist Mlim muni. * gay french imam *
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.
FRANCE: AN OPENLY GAY IMAM
Muhs Hendricks, the ‘world’s first gay imam’ wants to help LGBTQ+ Mlims South Ai rencile their sexualy wh their fah * gay french imam *
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.
IMAM FRANCE MARRI TWO GAY MLIMS
Ludovic Zahed is the first out gay imam Europe and one of the first openly gay Mlim clerics the world. * gay french 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.
LUDOVIC ZAHED ONE OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MUSLIM CLERICS IN THE WORLD
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.
A GAY IMAM'S STORY: 'THE DIALOGUE IS OPEN ISLAM – 10 YEARS AGO WASN'T'
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. ”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.