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:
- WHAT DO ISLAM SAY ABOUT BEG GAY?
- IN A SURVEY OF AMERIN MLIMS, 0% INTIFIED AS LBIAN OR GAY. HERE’S THE STORY BEHD THAT STATISTIC
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
WHAT DO ISLAM SAY ABOUT BEG GAY?
Parents have been prottg over relatnship tn, sayg is patible wh their relig valu. Where do the row leave gay Mlims? * muslims against gay education *
In Maryland, for example, a school district has approved books that discs homosexualy and transgenrism as normal reali for children as young as three years old. All too often, those who wish to live acrdance wh mastream, fay-based moraly are acced of beg bigoted and “homophobic” if they refe to endorse LGBTQ events. He never punished anyone for beg gay spe there beg plenty of evince that queer people existed his time.
There is also no punishment for beg homosexual the Quran. Moreover, the Mlim world did not monly have laws barrg homosexualy prr to lonizatn.
It was European lonizers who troduced stutnalized and systemic homophobia and transphobia to the societi, often the form of penal s. In 2018, then-Prime Mister Thera May of the Uned Kgdom apologized for Bra’s anti-gay laws and for their impact on human rights. The Pew Rearch Center found 2017 that 52% of Amerin Mlims believe homosexualy should be accepted by society.
IN A SURVEY OF AMERIN MLIMS, 0% INTIFIED AS LBIAN OR GAY. HERE’S THE STORY BEHD THAT STATISTIC
Protts by Mlims agast teachg about gay relatnships at their children’s primary me to a head last week. We meet the people ught between activists and the law * muslims against gay education *
But crics plaed that the programme “promot” gay and transgenr liftyl to children. Amanullah De Sondy, a lecturer ntemporary Islam at Universy College Cork, has wrten about homosexualy Islam.
”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. ” And he worri that the parents are not nsirg “that one of those children at the school uld be gay. Transgenr drag queen“When I went to sendary school, sectn 28 [a legal clse, sce repealed, that said lol thori should not “promote the teachg any mataed school of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship] was very much force.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
Homosexualy was not to be talked about schools and I didn’t see any gay or trans people. My parents took me to see my GP, not out of malice, but bee they didn’t unrstand what meant to be gay. Jt bee your children are learng about LGBT relatnships, won’t make them gay.
Instead, I feel like I have been robbed of my life – was taken om me by homophobia. ’ Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian‘I would cry on my prayer g: “Give me ncer or anythg.
“Gay people have said Islam is homophobic. By sayg that they have disunted gay Mlims and closed the doors of gay spac to and that means we have nowhere to go.