A very queer Somali life - Philalphia Gay News

Contents:

• MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM
• HOW HAVE MLIMS REACTED TO A LGBT-FRIENDLY MOSQUE IN ATRALIA RUN BY A GAY IMAM?
• GAY SOMALI IMAM
• ATRALIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM SHAR HIS STORY – WATCH
• BOSNIA: IMAM GLOATS, THANKS ALLAH FOR NCELLATN OF GAY PRI MARCH

MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM

But Imam Daayiee Abdullah – believed to be the only openly gay imam the Ameris – is proud of his story.

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. "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. Performg funeral r for a gay Mlim who died of AIDS.

But not all of them are gay. Many worshippers at the Light of Reform Mosque are not gay.

HOW HAVE MLIMS REACTED TO A LGBT-FRIENDLY MOSQUE IN ATRALIA RUN BY A GAY IMAM?

"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.

Hse Rashid, an adjunct profsor of relign at Hofstra Universy and ntributor to a report on homosexualy U. “But the tradn was and remas that homosexualy is a s Mlim tradn.

GAY SOMALI IMAM

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. The film “I Am Gay and Mlim” tracks several gay Morocn men as they explore their relig and sexual inti. Last year, a gay-iendly mosque opened Paris – Europe’s first.

Muhs Hendricks, an openly gay imam Capetown, South Ai, has for years been leadg ngregants and preachg that homosexualy and Islam are not patible. Andre Carson, D-Ind., have both advoted for gay rights. They have also done terviews wh LGBTQ Somali folks, cludg a discsn wh Imam Nur Warsame, Atralia’s first openly gay Imam.

ATRALIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM SHAR HIS STORY – WATCH

Mali, havg lived Mogadishu, Somalia for roughly three years, discsed his experience livg as a queer man a untry that crimaliz homosexualy and other LGBTQ inti. Imam Nur Warsame, the first openly gay Imam Atralia, is currently lookg to open the first mosque for LGBT+ Mlims Atralia, ensurg will be a safe and secure lotn Melbourne cy. A Somali-born vout Mlim who memorised the Quran addn to leadg one of the largt mosqu Melbourne the past, Imam Nur had stopped attendg mosqu and had the Mlim muny cut all ti wh him after he me out gay 2010.

BOSNIA: IMAM GLOATS, THANKS ALLAH FOR NCELLATN OF GAY PRI MARCH

”While is still batable among Mlims whether beg gay is patible wh beg a Mlim or not, Nur said earlier that is “absolutely OK” as the terpretatns of the Quran and how rejects homosexualy are “outdated”, who was married an attempt to f , said that Mlims need to face the homosexualy problem and stop g the outdated ways of thkg.

”Wh the Sydney Queer Mlims welg Nur’s plan to lnch a iendly-LGBT+ mosque, the ia found many supporters as well as crics among the Mlim fact, homosexualy is still a ntroversial issue several religns and muni. Meanwhile, some people qutned Nur’s posn as an “Imam” spe his sexual orientatn that is his own personal are also those who argued that homosexualy is not only prohibed Islam, as was mentned also the Bible and Torah, where homosexulay was percieved as a s.

ey-only: Islam has allowed homosexualy through the centuri. Hellenistic elements n be regnized the e of the we boy as a symbol of homoerotic passn. Wtern travelers reported that at Abbas' urt (some time between 1627 and 1629) they saw evince of homoerotic practic.