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Tugay Sarac was jt 15 when he first talked about travelg om Germany to Syria to fight for Islamic State. * berlin kaaba lgbt *
LONDON (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Tugay Sarac was jt 15 when he first talked about travelg om Germany to Syria to fight for Islamic unlike his iends at the time, Sarac had turned to radil Islam as a way of avoidg g to terms wh his sexualy. “I had iends who, like me, were really radil extremists and even nsired gog to Syria or to Palte to fight, ” he told the Thomson Rters Foundatn a quiet rner of the prayer room of Berl’s Ibn Rhd-Goethe 20, Sarac, who was born Berl to a Turkish fay, learned om an early age that homosexualy was wrong - and un-Islamic.
“I thought beg gay is bad and that through Islam, by prayg to God, I uld cure myself and bee normal. I was really ashamed of my gay thoughts. Yet Sarac was not lookg for a greater sense of Mlim solidary – he was nng away om the fact he was gay.
“(But) Islam for me was very clear that homosexualy was bad. ”It was only when Sarac me across the Ibn Rhd-Goethe mosque - one of only a handful of gay-iendly mosqu around the world - that he found a middle ground that allowed him to accept both his sexualy and his Sarac found himself drawn to the life of the mosque, s liberal, clive form of Islam drew him away om his more fundamentalist views and helped him e to terms wh who he was.
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“Comg here, I started beg fortable wh myself and that’s when I told my mother and my nt (that I was gay).
Followg a spate of attacks on mosqu, Interr Mister Horst Seehofer said March that Islam do not belong Germany, clashg wh Chancellor Angela Merkel’s multi-ethnic visn for Europe’s biggt ’s father, who moved to Germany at the age of six, boasted of beatg up gay people when he himself was younger and ma his views of homosexualy very clear to the young Sarac. But my father slapped my hand and said, ‘Stop dog that, ’s gay’.