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Contents:

• AS A GAY BRISH MLIM, THIS IS WHAT I THK OF THE POLL FDG OVER HALF OF UK MLIMS WANT HOMOSEXUALY BANNED
• WHAT'S LIKE BEG A GAY MLIM?
• I WANT YOUNG GAY MLIMS TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE ENOUGH, NO MATTER HOW HARD IS
• IN A SURVEY OF AMERIN MLIMS, 0% INTIFIED AS LBIAN OR GAY. HERE’S THE STORY BEHD THAT STATISTIC
• WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY AND MLIM AMERI

AS A GAY BRISH MLIM, THIS IS WHAT I THK OF THE POLL FDG OVER HALF OF UK MLIMS WANT HOMOSEXUALY BANNED

Bee apparently, more than half of all Brish Mlims thk homosexualy should be ’s remember took the rt of Bra a sexual revolutn, a lot of activism, art and cema along wh some major reform to get to where we are now on gay rights. I’m hardly surprised that 52 per cent don’t thk homosexualy should be legal.

WHAT'S LIKE BEG A GAY MLIM?

And dog so n have far reachg nsequenc on both dividuals and the 's why so many gay Brish Mlims choose to stay the closet.

This leads to a secret double life wh dark nsequenc, such as the gay Mlims livg straight marriag.

I WANT YOUNG GAY MLIMS TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE ENOUGH, NO MATTER HOW HARD IS

Naz Mahmood killed himself after his mum found out he was gay.

This was the first story I ever read the mastream prs about a gay Mlim - is any surprise that so many choose to stay silent when they see ‘people like me’ enunterg such fatal stggl?

IN A SURVEY OF AMERIN MLIMS, 0% INTIFIED AS LBIAN OR GAY. HERE’S THE STORY BEHD THAT STATISTIC

Beg gay and Mlim is 'like cidg which arm to cut off’Every time I speak tthfully about beg a gay Mlim, I enunter posivy om other Mlims – om “Wow, I’ve never met someone like you! ” to “I’ve always spected my uncle was gay…I wish he uld e out”.

I’ve enuntered a plethora of other gay Mlims now, cludg Bra’s first out Mlim drag queen, Asifa Lahore, and have found foms such as Stonewall’s ter-fah semar, which brought up topics such as how Mlim muni n support LGBT people earlier this year. We’re really not so different at 's rearch shows that the time has e for Brish Mlims - straight, gay or otherwise - to break the silence and start havg more difficult nversatns.

It's the only way we n start to create a mastream space for homosexualy wh Brish Islam, and cut that 52 per cent statistic down as far as possible.

WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY AND MLIM AMERI

Brish Mlims are more likely to feel a stronger nnectn to Bra than the populatn at large, acrdg to pollg, which also found that more than half thk that homosexualy should be illegal. Extensive pollg nducted by ICM suggts that most s attus held by the Brish Mlim populatn do not broadly differ om those held by the populatn at large, but there are signifint differenc when to some issu such as homosexualy and women’s Phillips, the former head of the Equaly and Human Rights Commissn, said the fdgs were “extremely worryg” as they suggted on many issu Mlims were “natn wh a natn” lled for a more “mcular approach” to rearch suggts that 86% of Brish Mlims feel a strong sense of belongg Bra, which is higher than the natnal average of 83%.

However, when asked to what extent they agreed or disagreed that homosexualy should be legal Bra, 18% said they agreed and 52% said they disagreed, pared wh 5% among the public at large who disagreed. Almost half (47%) said they did not agree that was acceptable for a gay person to bee a teacher, pared wh 14% of the general a seri of qutns on the terror threat Bra, 4% said they sympathised wh people who took part suici bombgs (1% said they pletely sympathised and 3% said they sympathised to some extent), and 4% said they sympathised wh people who mted terrorist actns as a form of polil prott a quarter (23%) supported the troductn of sharia law some areas of Bra, and 39% agreed that “wiv should always obey their hbands”, pared wh 5% of the untry as a whole. She said that although any prejudice agast gay people was unacceptable, the fact that nearly 50% of Mlims did not thk homosexualy should be illegal was a sign that attus were shiftg.