Meet Ameri’s First Openly Gay Imam | Al Jazeera Ameri

Contents:

• MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM
• A GAY IMAM'S STORY: 'THE DIALOGUE IS OPEN ISLAM – 10 YEARS AGO WASN'T'
• THE RADIL: A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT WORLD’S FIRST GAY IMAM
• MEET THE GAY IMAM WHO STARTED SOUTH AI'S FIRST LGBTIQ IENDLY MOSQUE
• AMERI'S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAN
• AS A GAY IMAM, I KNOW THAT ISLAM IS NOT ANTI-LGBTQ+
• THERE ARE 8 OPENLY GAY IMAMS THE WORLD: DAAYIEE ABDULLAH
• MEET THE IMAM OF AI’S FIRST GAY-IENDLY MOSQUE
• MEET NUR WARSAME, THE GAY IMAM WHO WANTS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE MLIM HOM
• IMAM DAAYIEE ABDULLAH WEL GAY MLIMS TO WORSHIP, MARRY
• EL IMáN GAY PARíS: “NO HAY NGUNA NTRADICCIóN EN SER MULMáN Y HOMOSEXUAL”
• MEET NUR WARSAME, THE GAY IMAM WHO WANTS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE MLIM HOM
• IMAM DAAYIEE ABDULLAH WEL GAY MLIMS TO WORSHIP, MARRY

MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM

But Imam Daayiee Abdullah – believed to be the only openly gay imam the Ameris – is proud of his story. But as a gay man Ameri, he saw that lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Mlims had unmet spirual needs and he beme an imam to provi muny support.

A GAY IMAM'S STORY: 'THE DIALOGUE IS OPEN ISLAM – 10 YEARS AGO WASN'T'

"Beg an openly gay imam and havg been intified as such, I do get a lot of feedback and also kickback, but that's OK, " said Imam Daayiee Abdullah, of Washgton, D. Performg funeral r for a gay Mlim who died of AIDS. But not all of them are gay.

Many worshippers at the Light of Reform Mosque are not gay. "Beg an openly gay imam and havg been intified as such, I do get a lot of feedback and also kickback, but that's OK, ” he said. “If you go to most Mlim scholars, they're gog to tell you that homosexual acts are a s Islam; that there's no way around , ” said Dr.

THE RADIL: A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT WORLD’S FIRST GAY IMAM

Hse Rashid, an adjunct profsor of relign at Hofstra Universy and ntributor to a report on homosexualy U.

“But the tradn was and remas that homosexualy is a s Mlim tradn. The var scholars who ntributed to the project’s report emphasized that there is no sgular terpretatn of homosexualy Islam. "I thk Daayiee is tryg to say, 'Y, I n be gay and I n be a Mlim, and I n tend to people who are also gay and Mlim, ' that this is part of their inty as a human beg and that the relign of Islam teach people to embrace all aspects of their humany, " he said.

MEET THE GAY IMAM WHO STARTED SOUTH AI'S FIRST LGBTIQ IENDLY MOSQUE

Though is unknown how many Amerin Mlims or Mlims around the world are gay, a growg number are vyg to be heard.

The film “I Am Gay and Mlim” tracks several gay Morocn men as they explore their relig and sexual inti.

AMERI'S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAN

Last year, a gay-iendly mosque opened Paris – Europe’s first. Muhs Hendricks, an openly gay imam Capetown, South Ai, has for years been leadg ngregants and preachg that homosexualy and Islam are not patible. Andre Carson, D-Ind., have both advoted for gay rights.

” Khan was born to the Mlim fah, while Ty – who intifi as non-bary – is a recent pansexual uple are among a dozen or so people who have gathered to listen to Muhs Hendricks, often lled “the world’s first openly gay imam”.

Unterred, he ntued to spread the msage that beg gay and Mlim are not patible, and is now the subject of a new documentary film, The Radil, which has s European premiere Berl this prayer at Masjadul Ghurbhh. ”In 2011 Hendricks bolstered his role as an imam figure by settg up a mosque space after a iend endured a lol sermon nmng homosexualy. ’”Same-sex marriage has been legally regnised sce 2006 South Ai, which is more acceptg of homosexualy than many Ain untri.

AS A GAY IMAM, I KNOW THAT ISLAM IS NOT ANTI-LGBTQ+

Acrdg to Masjidul Ghurbaah visors such as Khan, though, homophobia is still mon the cy’s mosqu.

“Havg a space where you n experience your culture and relign whout severe homophobia is very appealg, ” says Khan. Last summer the MJC clared a h fatwa on gay liftyl.

”skip past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotnHendricks says there’s nothg the Qur’an that “should be ed as blanket nmnatn of homosexualy”. He says there’s nothg the text that should be ed as blanket nmnatn of homosexualy. In 2019 he went to Kenya to promote LGBTQ+ rights ahead of the untry’s high urt upholdg anti-homosexualy laws current activism projects clu creatg onle vios Urdu and Hdi discsg LGBTQ+ Mlims.

THERE ARE 8 OPENLY GAY IMAMS THE WORLD: DAAYIEE ABDULLAH

He talks to the few other gay imams around the world, such as Atralia’s Nur Warsame and US-based Daayiee Abdullah, but remas the only one Ai. Muhs Hendricks is said to be the world’s first openly gay imam.

A documentary feature film about Muhs Hendricks, a Capetonian ex-drs signer who beme the world’s first openly gay imam, is premierg at the Enunters Internatnal Documentary Film Ftival.

MEET THE IMAM OF AI’S FIRST GAY-IENDLY MOSQUE

The Radil film is already g a stir: while the first screengs have been sold out for weeks, there are already the mblgs of disntent om those who feel that beg gay is unacceptable wh Islam. "I'm gay, " clared David Bowie, "and always have been, even when I was David Jon.

“I’m gay, ” clared David Bowie, “and always have been, even when I was David Jon. The Brish Parliament had only crimalized homosexualy 1967; post-­Stonewall U. Gay life was not yet 3 years old.

The Hunky Dory song “Queen Bch” is sung gay vernacular (“She’s so swishy her sat and tat! ”) om the perspective of a participant gay life and set to buzzg guar chords clearly cribbed om The Velvet Unrground, which earlier chronicled this genr-mutable world through s ti to Andy Warhol, who had a Hunky Dory tune wrten about him too.

MEET NUR WARSAME, THE GAY IMAM WHO WANTS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE MLIM HOM

And through his R&B rad ­succs wh “Young Amerins” and “Fame, ” Bowie bolstered dis’s early lk between clanste gay dance halls and ­fiantly upsle soul. I fished "gay". At her athbed she said: "I may never unrstand homosexualy.

Imam Daayiee Abdullah is Ameri's first openly gay imam the Islam fah. Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed discs his experienc as a gay imam and the Quran and Hadh’s “plex” stance on homosexualy. My name is Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, and I was the first out gay imam Europe.

IMAM DAAYIEE ABDULLAH WEL GAY MLIMS TO WORSHIP, MARRY

Concerng homosexualy per se, people pot to Sodom and Gomorrah, former Mopotamia, actual Syria and Iraq. The real people of Sodom and Gomorrah were not homosexuals.

EL IMáN GAY PARíS: “NO HAY NGUNA NTRADICCIóN EN SER MULMáN Y HOMOSEXUAL”

There is no reference to homosexualy the Qur’an; stead, mentns the rape of men, women and children the name of an iology. The Quran and Hadh’s stance on homosexualy is much more plex than most Mlims realise. This tly universal and empowerg paradigm is the basis of our latt publitn, Homosexualy, Transinty, and Islam, published wh the Amsterdam Universy Prs last year.

Ain-Amerin Daayiee Abdullah (62) is one of the few publicly gay imams the world. Do Islam approve of homosexualy?

MEET NUR WARSAME, THE GAY IMAM WHO WANTS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE MLIM HOM

Durg my rearch Sdi Arabia, I found posive terpretatn on homosexualy Quran. Is difficult to be a gay imam publicly? There are 12 gay imams the world and eight are openly gay.

It is not difficult for an dividual to be openly a gay imam but pends on the cultural ntext.

IMAM DAAYIEE ABDULLAH WEL GAY MLIMS TO WORSHIP, MARRY

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In Somalia where Nur Warsame om and many Islamic muni across the world, beg gay is not tolerated. It was, therefore, a matter of life and ath for Warsame when he me out as Atralia’s first openly gay Mlim lear 2010. In Atralia, people who are gay, lbian or bisexual are protected om discrimatn by law.