Oted by a gay sheikh | Brian Whaker | The Guardian

Contents:

• MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM
• MEET THE IMAM OF AI’S FIRST GAY-IENDLY MOSQUE
• THERE ARE 8 OPENLY GAY IMAMS THE WORLD: DAAYIEE ABDULLAH
• BT GAY SHEIKHS
• OTED BY A GAY SHEIKH
• GAY IMAM HOP TO OPEN ATRALIA'S FIRST LGBTI-IENDLY MOSQUE
• GAY COMMUNY THRIV LEBANON
• GAY SHARM EL SHEIKH, EGYPT | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• CROWN PRCE FAZZA OF DUBAI — SOME SAY HAMDAN IS GAY DO YOU KNOW IS THATS TE??...
• GAYDAR: 5 ARAB STARS WHO MIGHT BE HIDG THE CLOSET!

MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM

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.

MEET THE IMAM OF AI’S FIRST GAY-IENDLY MOSQUE

"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.

THERE ARE 8 OPENLY GAY IMAMS THE WORLD: DAAYIEE ABDULLAH

"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. 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.

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Muhs Hendricks, an openly gay imam Capetown, South Ai, has for years been leadg ngregants and preachg that homosexualy and Islam are not patible. Related topics:Share:Global AgendaThe Agenda WeeklyA weekly update of the most important issu drivg the global agendaMichelle HamerJune 20, 2023Katie Connolly September 5, 2022Gaylor Montmasson-ClairJune 21, 2022Lren van r ReFebary 3, 2022Florian ZandtJanuary 25, 2022Ldiwe MatlaliSeptember 21, 2021. Before his trial began at the Old Bailey, Prce Sd b Abdulaziz b Nasir al Sd ma strenuo efforts to keep the qutn of his homosexualy 34-year-old prce admted he had asslted his manservant, Bandar Abdulaziz, but nied barrister, John Kelsey-Fry QC, argued the qutn of sexualy was irrelevant to the se and poted out homosexual acts were a "mortal s" unr Islamic sharia Kelsey-Fry said if the prce was outed as a homosexual he uld face executn his native Sdi Arabia.

Image ptn, Bandar Abdulaziz was an orphanChristoph Wilcke, a Sdi Arabia expert wh Human Rights Watch, said homosexuals had the past been executed but was ually for rape and he said a prce would be immune om urt the trial began, Mr Kelsey-Fry went to great lengths to strs his client nied he was a strg of wns suggted otherwise. "But Mr Kelsey-Fry, cross examg Mr Dimrov, told him: "It is not accepted that this was fact a gay uple - but I readily accept that you had the imprsn they were a gay uple. "Two male rts, Pablo Silva and Louis Szikora, also gave evince they had performed sex acts on the photosAlthough the prce never gave evince, durg police terviews he sisted he was heterosexual and had a girliend Sdi Mr Laidlaw said this was a lie: "The fendant's keepg back of his homosexualy might other circumstanc, bee of the cultural background perhaps, be explaed away by embarrassment, or ed, fear.

OTED BY A GAY SHEIKH

Profsor Gregory Gse, a Sdi Arabia expert, said: "Homosexualy is nsired extremely shameful Sdi Arabia and there is not a publicly acknowledged homosexual muny.

But, for young Sdi men, ntact wh the oppose sex is extremely difficult so there might be a temptatn to experiment before marriage, " said Prof Gse, om the Universy of said about 5, 000 Sdi prc get a yearly stipend of about $200, 000 (£126, 000), but some were "fabuloly wealthy" assltAn sight to the prce's bashfulns about his homosexualy was given by one of the rts, Mr Szikora, who scribed visg the prce for a two-hour "erotic" ssn three days before the said: "The man I met ultimately did want sexual massage but is like mixg Nigel Havers wh Omar Sharif.

Giani Jogr Sgh Vedanti, the hight temporal thory to some Sikhs, recently nmned homosexualy while remdg visg Sikh-Canadian Members of Parliament (MPs) of their relig duty to oppose same-sex marriage. [1] In a report published March 2005, Vedanti said, "The basic duty of Sikh MPs Canada should be to support laws that stop this kd of practice [homosexualy], bee there are thoands of Sikhs livg Canada, to ensure that Sikhs do not fall prey to this practice. The supreme Sikh relig body, the Akal Takht, has issued an edict nmng gay marriage, and Vedanti's words were echoed by Manj Sgh Kalkatta, another highly rpected Sikh preacher who ss on the erng body of the Goln Temple, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Commtee.

GAY IMAM HOP TO OPEN ATRALIA'S FIRST LGBTI-IENDLY MOSQUE

It is seemgly silent on the subject of homosexualy; however, married life is enuraged time and time aga Gu Granth Sahib Ji. The same Sikhs believe that Gu Nanak's emphasis on universal equaly and brotherhood is fundamentally support of the human rights of homosexuals.

Views on homosexualy tend not to be a primary ncern Sikh teachgs, as the universal goal of a Sikh is to have no hate or animosy to any person, regardls of race, ste, lor, creed, genr, or sex.

Many Sikhs have terpreted this to mean that homosexualy, which nnot rult procreatn, is unnatural and agast God's will.

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Many Sikhs who have homosexual sir will try to overe what they believe to be lt by marryg a member of the oppose sex and havg children. Like liberals om other fahs and backgrounds, Sikhs who support homosexualy believe that 's not unnatural, but is normal for a mory of adults. The Sikhs strs that homosexualy is not discsed nor specifilly banned any of the wrgs of the Gu, and that the fay liftyle the Gu enurag n be cultivated by two members of the same sex.

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Sdi Arabia's top relig body clar homosexualy 'one of the most heo crim' and gay people 'a disgrace this world and the next'Sdi Arabia's Grand Mufti Abdulaziz al-Sheikh ma a statement on WedndayIt followed Sdi Arabia's UN Ambassador Abdallah al-Mouallimi exprsg rervatns over text wh a UN General Assembly draft on mocracyThe Grand Mufti said the kgdom tegorilly rejects homosexualy Sdi Arabia is wily regard as havg one of the worst LGBT+ rights rerds Published: 15:49 BST, 22 December 2021 | Updated: 16:03 BST, 22 December 2021. Sdi Arabia's top relig body has clared homosexualy 'one of the most heo crim' and gay people 'a disgrace this world and the next' a statement released today, Grand Mufti Abdulaziz al-Sheikh said the kgdom, which hosts Islam's two holit s, tegorilly rejects homosexualy, even as Riyadh seeks to transform s ultranservative image amid a mornisatn drive. His ments me after Sdi Arabia's UN Ambassador Abdallah al-Mouallimi exprsed rervatns over a UN General Assembly draft on mocracy that clud the terms 'sexual orientatn and genr inty' Arabia is wily regard as havg one of the worst LGBT+ rights rerds the world, equently punishg people for homosexualy.

The Grand Mufti said on Wednday that the kgdom tegorilly rejects homosexualyThe mufti said 'homosexualy is one of the most heo crim', acrdg to a statement rried by the official Sdi Prs said homosexuals were a 'disgrace and shameful this world and the hereafter', addg: 'Human rights...

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Sdi Arabia's UN Ambassador Abdallah al-Mouallimi (pictured at the UN 2016) exprsed rervatns over text wh a UN General Assembly draft on mocracy that clud the terms 'sexual orientatn and genr inty' The grand mufti's ments e as Sdi Arabia's facto ler, Crown Prce Mohammed b Salman, has sought to project a morate, bs-iendly image of his stere kgdomBut spe the untry's attempts to prent a reformist image, many thgs - cludg homosexualy and atheism - are illegal Sdi punishments for same-sex relatnships are not outled unr the law Sdi Arabia, they are strictly prohibed unr Sharia law, om which the untry draws s legal rights Sdi Arabia were thst to the spotlight October when English Premier League football team Newstle Uned was bought by a Sdi-backed spoke out agast the purchase, cg Sdi Arabia's human rights rerd - such as the killg of journalist Jamal Khashoggi si the untry's Istanbul embassy and the rights of LGBTQ+ people - as a reason to block the al. "The problem, apart om the fact that the book's story is set agast a background of the Iraq war (which "uld be a mefield" acrdg to Ms Abulhoul), one of s mor characters is a gay urse, the official le the Emirat (as Iran) is that they don't have gay people there apart om a few foreigners, and they absolutely fely tegorilly don't have any gay sheikhs. Three years ago my own book about gay life the Middle East was banned the emirate of Dubai – though was sold openly Lebanon and even displayed the wdows of some bookshops 2005 police Abu Dhabi, the pal of the UAE, arrted more than two dozen men at what was said to be a gay party.

Plans to "cure" their homosexualy wh hormone jectns were apparently dropped after protts om the US state om the sexual hang-ups, Ms Bell's excln om the lerary ftival, which boasts of "celebratg the world of books all s fe variety", highlights the emirat' fundamental dilemma. The practice of homosexual sex and relatnships is roundly nmned the Islamic tradn, which se the acts as unnatural and stemmg om the wickedns of the people of Lut. And when two of you (read wa’lladhāni or wa’lladhānni) men, m , that is, a lewd act, adultery or homosexual terurse, punish them both, wh sults and beatgs wh sandals; but if they repent, of this [lewd act], and make amends, through [good] actn, then leave them be, and do not harm them.

This [verse] is abrogated by the prcribed punishment if adultery is meant [by the lewd act], and siarly if homosexual terurse is meant, acrdg to al-Shāfi‘ī; but acrdg to him, the person who is the object of the [perative] act is not stoned, even if he be married; rather, he is flogged and banished. Judgg by the dual person pronoun, seems more obv that homosexual fornitn is meant [by this verse], even though the former [sc. Both of them – fornitn and homosexualy – volve immoraly that go agast the wisdom of Allaah’s creatn and mandment.

CROWN PRCE FAZZA OF DUBAI — SOME SAY HAMDAN IS GAY DO YOU KNOW IS THATS TE??...

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 Allaah or before His creatn. The crime of homosexualy is one of the greatt of crim, the worst of ss and the most abhorrent of eds, and Allaah punished those who did a way that He did not punish other natns.

Undoubtedly the s of homosexualy is one of the worst ss; ed, is one of the major ss (kabaa’ir) that Allaah has forbidn. Ibn al-Qasaar and our shaykh said: the Sahaabah agreed that [the person who do homosexual acts] should be killed, but they differed as to how he should be killed. This shows that there was nsens among them that [the person who do homosexual acts] should be killed, but they differed as to how he should be executed.

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The shar’i punishment for the crime of homosexualy is executn – by the sword, acrdg to the most rrect view – as was narrated the discsn above about the differenc among the scholars as to how this executn should be rried out. That is why you see gays drsg like women, pecially those who occupy the portn of ‘wiv’ this animalistic tenncy. Fight agast homosexual act is not only relig, is a natural obligatn on lovers of human digny and human rights activists.

In Hadh, the Prophet, peace and blsgs be upon him, clarifi the gravy of this abomatn by sayg: “Allah curs the one who do the actns (homosexual practic) of the people of Lut” repeatg three tim; and he said another Hadh: “If a man upon a man then they are both adulterers. ” Here, he nsired homosexualy tantamount to adultery relatn to the Shari’ah punishments bee is an abomatn on the one hand and the fn of adultery appli to on the other hand. As to the issue of how the homosexual person is judged an Islamic State, the Companns of Prophet Muhammad, peace and blsg be upon him differed among themselv on this issue, and this led to different views mataed by Mlim Jurists.

For example, the Hanafi school of thought, the homosexual is punished through harsh beatg, and if he/she repeats the act, ath penalty is to be applied. As for the Shafi`i school of thought, the homosexual receiv the same punishment of adultery (if he/she is married) or fornitn (if not married). This means, that if the homosexual is married, he/she is stoned to ath, while if sgle, he/she is whipped 100 tim.