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
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” In 2019, Mlim Advot, MPAC, and CAIR-Oklahoma llectively submted an amic brief favor of gay and transgenr employment protectns alongsi the heretil “reformist” anizatn Mlims for Progrsive Valu (MPV)—a peculiar cln, particularly given MPV print Ani Zonneveld’s prr repudiatn of Yasir Qadhi, Hamza Yuf, the Council on Amerin–Islamic Relatns (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North Ameri (ISNA), Hsam Ayloh (Executive Director, CAIR-LA), Nihad Awad (-founr and Executive Director of CAIR), Zaytuna Instute, and the Islamic Circle of North Ameri (ICNA) as “homophobic. Like , the prohibn of homosexual behavr—and all sexual acts that fall outsi specifilly leated legally sanctned relatnships (all of which are necsarily heterosexual)—is also “known of the relign by necsy. At no pot is there even implic support for homosexual relatnships all of this recent years, heterodox groups have emerged proposg reforms to this sexual ethic, argug that the Quranic msage has been misunrstood by jurists or that perhaps the language self is malleable enough to acmodate same-sex relatnships alongsi normative heterosexual on.
The relign of Islam therefore prcrib a clear sexual ethic light of which homosexual acts are prohibed and the act of sodomy specifilly is a grave moral s (as are heterosexual fornitn and adultery). Attempts to approve homosexual acts not only vlate clear vers of revelatn (th nstutg a posn of disbelief, or ku) but also profoundly unrme the very soc-faial ethic whose prervatn is an sential prciple and one of the ma overridg objectiv of Islamic law, namely, the prervatn of leage (nasl). Terms such as sexual orientatn, gay, straight, homosexual, heterosexual, and the like are all exceedgly recent tegori and ncepts, gurated the late neteenth century and which, acrdg to Michel Fouult and others, served to troduce a new “speci” of sexual beg, one to be studied, examed, and pathologized for medil purpos.
4 (2010): 801–838, Though many scholars have supported this perdizatn, a few recent voic have argued for slightly earlier begngs, wh some lotg the orig of “homosexualy” (as a social ncept, if not a fully formed term) late eighteenth- / early neteenth-century Germany2 See Robert Beachy, “The German Inventn of Homosexualy, ” The Journal of Morn History 82, no. Neverthels, is important here simply to note that although some people the past (pre-neteenth century) certaly exprsed and acted on homoerotic sir, they had no ncept of an attendg inty to which that sexual exprsn was tethered. Unlike past peopl, the morn dividual experiencg same-sex attractn begs first to nceive of his inty before anythg else: his first orr of bs is to wrtle wh whether he is “gay.