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.
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 *
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.
WHAT DO ISLAM SAY ABOUT BEG GAY?
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.
MLIM ATTUS ABOUT LGBT ARE PLEX, FAR OM UNIVERSALLY ANTI-GAY
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.