Parents have been prottg over relatnship tn, sayg is patible wh their relig valu. Where do the row leave gay Mlims?
Contents:
- EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
- IN A SURVEY OF AMERIN MLIMS, 0% INTIFIED AS LBIAN OR GAY. HERE’S THE STORY BEHD THAT STATISTIC
EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
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Clearly Qatar, which is set to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup and has adhered to two major human rights treati, nnot rema an outsir to the velopments—pecially given that FIFA has now a tailed human rights policy and is particularly supportive of clive football associatns such as the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Football Associatn. ”Theologilly, he pots out, is the story of Lot that is often poted to as the basis for homosexualy beg forbidn Islam, but he argu this is a misunrstandg of the s the story is highlightg – which is rape, not nsensual sex. Transgenr drag queen“When I went to sendary school, sectn 28 [a legal clse, sce repealed, that said lol thori should not “promote the teachg any mataed school of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship] was very much force.
Acrdg to the kgdom’s relig police, the school was fed 100, 000 riyals ($26, 650) for displayg “the emblem of the homosexuals” on s buildg, one of s admistrators was jailed and the offendg parapet was swiftly repated to match a blue rabow-ee se of the gaily pated school shows how progrs one part of the world n have adverse effects elsewhere and serv as a remr that there are plac where the nnectn between rabows and LGBT rights is eher new or yet to be Afghanistan, only a few years ago, there was a craze for ratg rs wh rabow stickers – which Che factori were only too happy to supply. It wasn’t until the Afghan Pajhwok news agency explaed how they might be misterpreted that the craze me to a sudn on the ter and you will also fd pi of the “Rabow Qur’an” for sale – an unnscly gay edn of the holy book wh tted pag of every hue and remend on one webse as “an ial gift for Mlims” there are two sis to this cross-cultural misunrstandg. Genr segregatn, which go to extreme lengths the more nservative Mlim untri, enurag homosocial behavur, creatg a suatn where men are often more fortable the prence of other men and where placg a hand on another man’s knee is a sign of iendship, not an vatn to sex.
IN A SURVEY OF AMERIN MLIMS, 0% INTIFIED AS LBIAN OR GAY. HERE’S THE STORY BEHD THAT STATISTIC
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 * muslim lgbt activists *
Historilly, Mlim societi have often acknowledged this – toleratg to some extent even if they the 19th and early 20th centuri, men who had been persecuted for their sexualy Europe often sought refuge Moroc and, long before same-sex marriage was dreamed of the wt, male-on-male partnerships were regnised – and marked wh a ceremony – the remote Egyptian oasis of some Mlim untri, whole towns have bee the butt of jok about the supposed homosexualy of their habants.