The Secret Hajj: A Gay Mlim Documents His Pilgrimage to Mec

Contents:

• THE SECRET HAJJ: A GAY MLIM DOCUMENTS HIS PILGRIMAGE TO MEC
• THE GERMAN CY OF KASSEL NOW HAS A GAY KAABA TO ADDRS HOMOSEXUAL MLIMS
• WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
• GAY FLAG RAISED THE PAL BAGHDAD

THE SECRET HAJJ: A GAY MLIM DOCUMENTS HIS PILGRIMAGE TO MEC

When Parvez Sharma, a New York-based documentary film maker ma his first film, “A Jihad for Love, ” his claratn as a gay Mlim ma him a marked man throughout the Islamic do you do for an enre? For Sharma, there was only one other challenge tt his own fah, Sharma embarked on a hajj, the once--a-lifetime pilgrimage ma by the most vout Mlims to Mec, knowg full well that filmg would be prohibed and that beg gay would be nsired a s punishable by spent unr one month Sdi Arabia, shootg much of his documentary secretly wh an iPhone rult, “A Sner Mec, ” buted at this month’s Toronto’s HotDocs ftival and has been the talk of the documentary circu. This is not a gay film.

THE GERMAN CY OF KASSEL NOW HAS A GAY KAABA TO ADDRS HOMOSEXUAL MLIMS

The project aimed to exprs the power of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny the periphery and across Israel. Opposn to the LGBT muny has been growg the past few years, even though homosexualy has been legal throughout Turkey’s morn history. An anisatn supportg LGBTQIA+ has erected a mol of the Kaaba the cy of Kassel Germany the lours of the gay flag.

The cy uncil had refed to erect the statue, but the anisers of the event filed a lawsu and obtaed a urt orr to erect the statue to addrs gay Mlims who face harsh penalti their untri, particularly the Kgdom of Sdi Arabia. Most likely, you thk of homosexualy or the wir LGBT movement. Gilbert Baker, the man creded wh pneerg the celebratory rabow flag flyg over the gay movement, recently ld his craft, notg that ’s somethg betiful.

WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?

” Acrdg to Baker, the God of the Bible knows the stggle of gays and lbians, and that is where he fds hope. God do ed know the ternal and social battl of gays and lbians, but the qutn is, Do he approve of their practice? The Supreme Court’s cisn on gay “marriage” has ma the rabow symbol ubiquo.

God signed the rabow to symbolize somethg far greater and far more glor than homosexualy, and if those the homosexual muny tly unrstood and embraced the symbol they are wavg their hands, they would experience te eedom and peace.

GAY FLAG RAISED THE PAL BAGHDAD

In that day the lofty pri of all men, cludg gay pri, will be brought low, and the Lord alone will be glorly exalted. The fact that he has reaed om sendg another flood to stroy the world do not mean that he accepts homosexual practic, or any other kd of s. Rather, this kd of mercy shows that God is patiently wag for all, cludg homosexuals, to believe.