Beg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or any other sexual orientatn or genr inty is difficult enough on s own, but beg Mlim as well n e one to stggle wh rencilg their inty wh Islam and Allah. However,...
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EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
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Islam seems to have a special place such bat, pecially the Wt where the mass media is saturated wh imag of vlence, misogyny, homophobia and other nasts perpetrated by Mlims. Some Wtern LGBT activists cricise this as hypocrisy and acce Iranian polici of “forcg” homosexuals to sex reassignment, but the Iranian-Amerin genr historian Afsaneh Najmabadi argu that the reali on the ground are much more plex. State-sponsored homophobia untri such as Uganda, Nigeria, India and Malaysia n all be traced back varyg gre to Brish lonial legaci – somethg worth reflectg on as we celebrate LGBT history month.
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 * lgbt and islam *
However, acrdg to a recent survey by Public Relign Rearch Center, more than half (52%) of Amerin Mlims ageed that "society should approve of homosexualy.