The Orlando massacre is a hio remr to Amerins that homophobia is an tegral part of Islamic extremism. It is important to tablish why a man like Omar Mateen uld be motivated to murr 49 people a gay nightclub while he proclaimed his support for Islamic State and then pray to Allah. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Fellow of the Future of Diplomacy Project exam the nnectn between homophobia and the Islamic relign.
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
- EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
- MLIM ATTUS ABOUT LGBT ARE PLEX, FAR OM UNIVERSALLY ANTI-GAY
WHAT DO ISLAM SAY ABOUT BEG GAY?
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Acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, Turkey sr slightly better on measur of gay rights when pared wh some nearby Christian-majory natns such as Rsia, Armenia and Ukrae.
IN A SURVEY OF AMERIN MLIMS, 0% INTIFIED AS LBIAN OR GAY. HERE’S THE STORY BEHD THAT STATISTIC
The group's public executns of gay men are part of a liberate moral policg mpaign, one aimed at showg supporters and enemi alike that means to enforce s narrow, atavistic view of Islamic law wherever n. * muslims against gays *
Their eccentricy has apparently add to their beyond the entertament dtry, the tradnal mastream Islamic view on homosexualy produc tolerance Turkey toward gays and creat starker problems Mlim natns that apply Shariah.
The average nservative Mlim tak this story as a jtifitn to stigmatize gays, but there is an important qutn that serv nsiratn: Did the people of Lot receive dive punishment for beg homosexual, or for attackg Lot and his heavenly guts?
EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
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. * muslims against gays *
The even more signifint nuance is that while the Quran narrat this dive punishment for Sodom and Gomorrah, cre no earthly punishment for homosexualy — unlike the Old Ttament, which clearly cre that homosexuals “are to be put to ath.
MLIM ATTUS ABOUT LGBT ARE PLEX, FAR OM UNIVERSALLY ANTI-GAY
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 * muslims against gays *
But signifint nam among them, such as the eighth-century scholar Abu Hanifa, the founr of the popular Hanafi school of jurispnce, argued that sce a homosexual relatnship did not produce offsprg wh an unknown father, uldn’t be nsired real Islamic basis for punishg homosexualy is the hadhs, or saygs, attributed to the Prophet Muhammad. For homosexualy volv numerable evil and harms, and the one to whom is done would be better off beg killed than havg this done to him, bee after that he will bee so evil and so rpt that there n be no hope of his beg reformed, and all good is lost for him, and he will no longer feel any shame before Allah or before His creatn.
But is important to tablish why a man like Omar Mateen uld be motivated to murr 49 people a gay nightclub, terptg the slghter, as law-enforcement officials reported, to dial 911, proclaim his support for Islamic State and then pray to Allah.