By: Wendy Gillis Toronto Star News reporter, Published on Sun Aug 25 2013 Islamic scholars experience diversy of Mlim practic at U of T summer program Visors om around the world takg part a Universy of Toronto Islamic studi nference vis a gay-iendly, genr-equal mosque. Three dozen men and women s barefoot si a…
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- AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY
- AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY
- TORONTO MOSQUE IS GAY IENDLY, MIXED GENR PRAYERS LED BY A WOMAN
- ISLAMIC SCHOLARS AT FACULTY OF LAW SUMMER INSTUTE VIS GAY AND LBIAN MOSQUE
AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY
Khaki -found Toronto's first LGBTQ-iendly mosque, Uny Mosque, 10 years ago to allow lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer Mlims t * gay mosque toronto *
Growg up, Yara El Safi, a queer Mlim artist who immigrated to Canada om Lebanon 2001, was nstantly exposed to a “weird belief that queer and gay is a Wtern ventn. Imam El-Faro Khaki -found Toronto's first LGBTQ-iendly mosque, Uny Mosque, 10 years ago to allow lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer Mlims to attend prayers whout havg to hi their sexual orientatn or genr inty for fear of discrimatn.
INTERPRETATIONGay Mlim scholar Stt Siraj al-Haqq Kugle has spent two s rearchg LGBTQ issu the Islamic fah and said many people are surprised to disver that Islam is not herently nmng of LGBTQ people.
“In the Quran, there is no word that explicly scrib homosexual or transgenr persons; the Arabic terms were vented after the Quran’s revelatn, by medieval jurists and ntemporary journalists, doctors and social crics.
AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY
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FINDING ‘A MIDDLE GROUND’Tugay Sarac was 13 when his father died eight years ago. “I thought I n't be Mlim and gay at the same time, ” he said.
“This went on for a few years until I went to the Ibn Rhd-Goethe Mosque, where I realized that is actually possible to be Mlim and gay.
TORONTO MOSQUE IS GAY IENDLY, MIXED GENR PRAYERS LED BY A WOMAN
A leadg gay Mlim activist feels the Orlando massacre has "shattered the notn of safety for the gay and Mlim muni." And that notn, he says, "has been shattered on multiple levels" for LGBT Mlims. * gay mosque toronto *
”Tugay Sarac is the LGBTQ ordator of Ibn Rhd-Goethe Mosque, the only self-scribed liberal mosque Germany.
ISLAMIC SCHOLARS AT FACULTY OF LAW SUMMER INSTUTE VIS GAY AND LBIAN MOSQUE
Courty of Tugay SaracIbn Rhd-Goethe Mosque is the only self-scribed liberal mosque Germany.
“I know that many gay Mlims turn to radil ias bee they want to cure themselv om homosexualy, ” Sarac explaed. “Mosqu like Ibn Rhd-Goethe n give people a place to be gay and Mlim.
Acrdg to a 2017 Pew Rearch Center survey of Amerin Mlims, a majory (52 percent) believe society should accept homosexualy, pared wh jt 27 percent 2007.