What 's like to be gay and a Mlim

Contents:

• ERDGTON AMY SAYS ‘GAY MLIM’ STRAYED OFF TOPIC DURG LGBTQ SSN
• BIRMGHAM SCHOOL OUTRAGE BY VG ‘GAY MLIM’ TO ADDRS PUPILS
• WT MIDLANDS SCHOOL CRICISED AFTER ATH THREATS TO GAY MLIM SPEAKER
• POLICE NOTIFIED AS GAY MLIM SPEAKER RECEIV 'ONLE THREATS' AFTER WOOD GREEN AMY TALK
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• CAN A MLIM BE GAY?
• GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE

ERDGTON AMY SAYS ‘GAY MLIM’ STRAYED OFF TOPIC DURG LGBTQ SSN

An vtigatn by Erdgton Amy to a lson where a “gay Mlim” told pupils that the Quran do not prohib same-sex relatns has nclud that the speaker “strayed off topic. A source told 5Pillars: “I believe the school liberately misrmed parents about the LGBTQ+ ssn that was planned and about the ‘gay Mlim’ ved to speak to Mlim children.

The ntroversy epted last week when Erdgton Amy ved a “gay Mlim” lled Ash to do an onle power pot prentatn and speech durg an Enrichment Day ssn wh Year 7 and 8 pupils.

BIRMGHAM SCHOOL OUTRAGE BY VG ‘GAY MLIM’ TO ADDRS PUPILS

Parents told 5Pillars that Ash, who said he was a Bengali Mlim om Birmgham, announced that he was a Mlim and gay and said he had read the Quran and hadhs and is “ok to be gay. There is nothg the Quran that says you n’t be gay, he said, addg that ’s up to terpretatn and you have old Mlims and new morn Mlims who terpret differently. But when qutned by stunts about how he uld be Mlim and gay given Islam’s strict prohibn on same-sex sexual relatns, Ash replied that he lost his fah years ago but still knows lots of “gay Mlims.

Sourc told 5Pillars that the onle ssn took place whout Mlim pupils or staff knowg that a “gay Mlim” would addrs the stunts.

WT MIDLANDS SCHOOL CRICISED AFTER ATH THREATS TO GAY MLIM SPEAKER

The prentatn clud imag of two men kissg and other imag and ptns promotg homosexualy, which, if acted upon, is nsired a major s by a nsens of Islamic scholars.

POLICE NOTIFIED AS GAY MLIM SPEAKER RECEIV 'ONLE THREATS' AFTER WOOD GREEN AMY TALK

Erdgton Amy Birmgham has provoked outrage amongst Mlim staff, pupils and parents by vg a “gay Mlim” who said the Quran do not prohib same-sex relatns to addrs pupils aged 11-13. On Tuday Erdgton Amy ved a “gay Mlim” lled Ash to do an onle power pot prentatn and speech durg an “enrichment day” ssn wh Year 7 and 8 pupils. Parents have told 5Pillars that Ash, who said he was a Bengali Mlim om Birmgham, announced that he was a Mlim and gay and said he had read the Quran and hadhs and is “ok to be gay.

“Basilly, a guy was ved knowg full well that he was gay and Mlim and that he was gog to make a speech to majory Mlim kids and Mlim staff, and he has misquoted the Quran to say that ’s allowed to be gay and that the Quran says ’s ok. There is a profound difference between someone g and sayg ‘the are my experienc, ’ and someone g who has no expertise on Islamic theology and sayg ‘there is nothg wrong wh beg gay and Mlim or that there is nothg the Quran which preclus the typ of relatnships.

Erdgton Amy Birmgham has provoked outrage amongst Mlim staff, pupils and parents by vg a “gay Mlim” who said the Quran do not prohib same-sex relatns to addrs pupils aged 11-13. A Wt Midlands school has been cricised for failg to “teach ntroversial issu a way that is safe for everyone”, after a gay Mlim speaker was challenged by stunts and later received ath threats on social external report on Wood Green Amy Wednbury was missned after the cint November last year, which stunts qutned the speaker on his views about homosexualy and Qurhi, founr of the Birmgham Asian LGBT group, was ved to the school’s sixth form to speak on “diversy the face of adversy”, but the ssn appeared to scend to chaos, vios posted on social media Qurhi said there wasn’t anythg the Qur’an that said homosexualy was a s, stunts uld be heard sayg he was “offendg people” and “advotg the wrong thg”. Teachers tervened, wh one scribg the stunts’ ments as “homophobia” and another g a reference to 9/11 to expla how the UK was a “tolerant society” cint at the school of 1, 500 stunts led to parents formg the Wood Green Amy Actn Group, which said pupils were fearful about returng to school after the pennt report, sent to parents last month and seen by the Guardian, nclud: “There is clear evince there is sufficient awarens and experience to be able to liver the teachg of ntroversial issu a way that is safe for everyone.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

”The group said had llected other plats om pupils and parents, cludg a pupil beg harassed for wearg a long skirt and headsrf, the school refg to create a signated prayer room, mothers beg nied entry to the school while wearg a veil and teachers failg to tervene ex-stunt said his younger sister was one of the pupils lled homophobic by a teacher the vio, before she was directed to a staff office where she started cryg. “To me ’s que worryg that the mdset of my childhood the 70s and 80s, that you nnot be gay Mlim, ntu here the 21st century the UK. ”In the vio clips of the cint, pupils n be heard sayg Qurhi was “advotg the wrong thg” and askg him: “Do you agree that beg gay and Mlim is wrong?

Mlim stunts at Erdgton Amy nont and bully a Gay Mlim speaker at their school for sayg " is ok to be gay and mlim" (Birmgham, UK). Officers have been alerted to a bter row between staff and stunts at a Black Country school followg a talk om gay Mlim speaker.

Khakan said he felt some were 'dissectg his inty' as they qutned how he uld be both Mlim and gay. Homosexualy is legal, although a vaguely-word 2013 law prohibs the promotn of ‘non-tradnal’ relatnships. As such, gay travellers are advised agast overt displays of their sexualy.

CAN A MLIM BE GAY?

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5Pillars unrstands that over 50 Mlim stunts did not attend Wood Green Amy Wednbury yterday after pupils were discipled followg a vis to the school by “gay Mlim” activist Khakan Qurhi. At a meetg at the Mada Edutn Tst on Sunday, attend by 160 people, Mlim parents and muny members said that their children felt fearful about gog back to school after their normative Islamic beliefs on LGBTQ issu were challenged by Mr Qurhi, who said was okay to be gay and Mlim and that the Quran do not nsir homosexualy to be a s.

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.

GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE

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.

It is difficult to fe the “Islamic posn” on homosexualy, as a monolhic phenomenon, simply bee Islam is a very diverse fah group wh some 1. In most Mlim untri, homosexualy is illegal and some untri, cludg Iran and Sdi Arabia, is punishable by ath.

But others, such as Jordan and Turkey, homosexualy is not nsired a crime. Most Islamic scholars are agreement that homosexualy is patible wh Islamic theology. 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.