For many LGBT Mlims, g out of the closet to their fai and relig muni n be a ght cisn. One Mlim lear says she receiv lls regularly om young gay and lbian Mlims who are aaid to reveal their sexual inty.
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
- WHAT DO ISLAM SAY ABOUT BEG GAY?
- MLIM ATTUS ABOUT LGBT ARE PLEX, FAR OM UNIVERSALLY ANTI-GAY
EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
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,... * islam lgbt *
The LGBTQ Natn article end wh the followg statement: “Mlim culture isn’t herently anti-gay: the Qur’an says nothg about homosexualy (unlike the Bible); Islamic history is filled wh texts openly pictg homosexualy as a betiful, matter-of-fact thg; and more Amerin Mlims support same-sex marriage than do Christian Evangelils, Prottants, and Mormons, acrdg to a Pew Rearch Study. ”4 The amg of the article as a whole, om s tle to s fal paragraph, portrays Mlims who objected to the poster as unnecsarily “homophobic”: they were prottg a betiful thg that their own relig scripture supposedly do not nmn and that their own history has allegedly celebrated for the end, however, the universy acquiced to the mands of the Mlim muny and pulled the poster down.
Even agast the aggrsive agenda of the cultural, polil, and palist el, the Mlim muny sred a small but signifint victory for their fah and favor of tth and elaborated below, Islam’s prohibn of homosexual acts is tegoril, and s teachgs on genr relatns and sexual norms are foundatnal and separable om belief Allah and His revelatn. Given the prodig changg of the cultural wds, is no longer sufficient for Mlims—and others who disapprove of same-sex relatnships—simply to say that they do not approve of homosexual behavr the same way that they do not approve of drkg or premaral sex between men and women.
The disurse on homosexualy has shifted so quickly and radilly that the old Mlim fens and attus (“It is not our problem, ” “How is this different for Mlims om fornitn or we-drkg?, ” or “Live and let live”) have bee effective and we are nonted wh grave challeng. In the years followg gay marriage legalizatn, Same Street, SpongeBob, and other such rtoons were also featurg openly LGBT-intifyg LGBT narrative has also permeated at an stutnal level wh several stat, cludg California, Colorado, Illois, New Jersey, Oregon, Rho Island, and Washgton, mandatg LGBT tn var public schools, some as early as elementary school. 15 This reprents a prime example of how an allegedly entertament-oriented rporatn, known for producg rtoons and movi, n be policized and absorbed by the burng qutns of the a siar move earlier this year, a Burger Kg ad Atria proudly featured the “Pri Whopper, ” a burger wh matchg top and bottom buns—a not so subtle reference to homosexual male terurse where one partner plays the top role and the other the bottom role.
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 * islam lgbt *
There is no word classil Arabic—or any other Islamite language, for that matter—that is equivalent to “homosexualy, ” jt as there had tradnally been no ncept of a gay or LGBT inty (wh rrpondg vobulary) even the Wt before the late neteenth century. Any disapproval of homosexual or transgenr behavr is immediately perceived as an attack on a personal inty, acpanied by accatns of “nyg people’s digny, ” practicg “excln, ” or otherwise beg motivated by hate, bigotry, or reclaim our language and nceptual amework, let turn to how homosexual acts are characterized by our Creator and Lord on the people of Lot (pbuh)A discsn of Islamic sexual ethics, and homosexualy particular, would be plete whout mentng the Qur’anic vers on the people of Lot. 75 To reerate a pot raised above, rpondg to those alg wh such issu wh our muny, we mt emphasize that one of the most perilo traps for Mlims the Wt is the ubiquo gay inty paradigm, which sists that one mt, as a qutn of re inty, nceive of and prent onelf as “gay” or “lbian” if one is attracted to the same sex.
Shabbir Akhtar’s say, which discs the Qur’anic notn of fiṭra and s rptn: Shabbir Akhtar, “A Path Straightened Out: Perspectiv on Human Nature the Qur’an, ” Yaqeen, October 22, 2020, updated November 5, 2020, Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen, After the Ball: How Ameri Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays the 90s (N.
WHAT DO ISLAM SAY ABOUT BEG GAY?
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. 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. In Egypt, for example, an old law agast “bchery” is often laws have a tastrophic effect on the liv of people who are unlucky enough to get ught but, spe ocsnal crackdowns, the thori don’t, on the whole, actively seek out gay people to arrt them.
In England 1952, there were 670 prosecutns for sodomy, 3, 087 for attempted sodomy or cent asslt, and 1, 686 for gross problem wh such laws, even if not vigoroly enforced, is that they signal official disapproval of homosexualy and, upled wh the fulmatns of relig scholars, legimise discrimatn by dividuals at an everyday level and may also provi an exce for actn by vigilant.
MLIM ATTUS ABOUT LGBT ARE PLEX, FAR OM UNIVERSALLY ANTI-GAY
Years before Isis began throwg allegedly gay men off the top of buildgs, other groups Iraq were attackg “un-manly” men – sometim killg them slowly by jectg glue to the reason for the paratively small number of prosecutns is the official fictn that gay people don’t exist to any great extent Mlim untri; homosexualy is regard primarily as a wtern phenomenon and large numbers of arrts would ll that to qutn.
Some of the most btal Arab regim (Iraq unr Saddam Hse and Syria unr the Assads, for example) also showed ltle tert attackg gay people – probably bee they had other thgs to worry Syrian refugee Subhi Nahas wh the US ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, durg an rmal meetg on the persecutn of LGBT people by Isis.