Homosexualy Islam: Cril Reflectn on Gay, Lbian, and Transgenr Mlims: 9781851687015: Kugle, Stt Siraj Al-Haqq: Books
Contents:
- A GAY IMAM'S STORY: 'THE DIALOGUE IS OPEN ISLAM – 10 YEARS AGO WASN'T'
- EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
- HOMOSEXUALY ISLAM: CRIL REFLECTN ON GAY, LBIAN, AND TRANSGENR MLIMS PAPERBACK – FEBARY 1, 2010
- GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE
A GAY IMAM'S STORY: 'THE DIALOGUE IS OPEN ISLAM – 10 YEARS AGO WASN'T'
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. * homosexuality in islam *
For homosexualy volv numerable evil and harms, and the one to whom is done would be better off beg killed than havg this done to him, bee after that he will bee so evil and so rpt that there n be no hope of his beg reformed, and all good is lost for him, and he will no longer feel any shame before Allah or before His creatn.
In the Wt today, where homosexualy was once nsired an illns by the Associatn of Psychiatrists, has now been removed om the list and replaced by homophobia (the dislike of homosexuals and homosexualy).
Furthermore, June 1994, the Chigo Tribune reported that a junr rearcher Hamer’s laboratory who assisted the gene mappg the homosexualy study, alleged that he selectively reported his data.
EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
The official fictn, Brian Whaker explas, is that gay people don’t exist the Middle East. They do – and for many of them, attus of fay and society are a bigger problem than fear of beg persecuted * homosexuality in islam *
The Orlando shootg was a hate crime agast gay people – even if, once emerged that the attacker had been a Mlim, many people claimed this as a terrorist attack rather than a hate crime. Sce the massacre there has been a lot of speculatn about Islam and homosexualy and there are fears that one man’s spible act of terrorism uld fan the flam of Islamophobia and other forms of social excln, leadg to disrd and unrt an era of elevated Islamophobia. They tend to draw on the story of Lot the Koran (also the Old Ttament) which reunts the stctn of the tribe of Lot allegedly due to their engagement homosexual acts as “evince” for God’s nmnatn of homosexualy.
HOMOSEXUALY ISLAM: CRIL REFLECTN ON GAY, LBIAN, AND TRANSGENR MLIMS PAPERBACK – FEBARY 1, 2010
The group's public executns of gay men are part of a liberate moral policg mpaign, one aimed at showg supporters and enemi alike that means to enforce s narrow, atavistic view of Islamic law wherever n. * homosexuality in islam *
Although rearch to attus towards homosexualy the general populatn pots to mographic variabl, such as age and level of tn, as key termants of the nature of attus, this has not been the se my own work wh Brish Mlims. Moreover, there was a fundamental rejectn of sentialist arguments ncerng the origs of sexual orientatn – that people are born gay and that they do not “choose” to be gay – and terviewe often argued that people had “chosen” to be gay.
GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE
* homosexuality in islam *
In view of the generally negative attus towards homosexualy Mlim muni and the silence that n surround discsns of sexualy, most of my Mlim gay terviewe have manifted a poor self-image and low psychologil well-beg.
It is easy to see how belief the negativy of homosexualy om the perspective of one’s fah (which, untls studi has emerged as an important inty among Brish Asian Mlims) uld e some gay Mlims to velop ternalised homophobia and, some s, to doubt the thenticy of their Mlim inty. Ccially, makg sense of the “” unrlyg their sexual orientatn, some gay Mlims were of the view that they had “bee” gay as a rult of their social environment and nsequently blamed Brish society:.