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?
* muslims against gays *
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. 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?
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. 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.
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 *
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. The Associated Prs reports that sce 2014 ISIS has executed at least 30 people Syria and Iraq for beg homosexual, cludg three men who were dropped om the top of a 100-foot buildg Mosul June fewer than 40 out of 57 Mlim-majory untri or terrori have laws that crimalize homosexualy, prcribg punishments rangg om f and short jail sentenc to whippgs and more than 10 years prison or untri’ laws agast homosexualy align wh the attus of the overwhelmg majory of their populatns. In 33 out of the 36 untri, more than 75% of those surveyed answered that homosexualy was “morally wrong, ” and only three did more than 10% of those surveyed believe that homosexualy was “morally acceptable.
The Middle East Media Rearch Instute reported 2006 that whenSheikh Yuf al-Qaradawi, one of the world’s leadg Sunni clerics and chairman of the European Council for Fatwa and Rearch, was asked how gay people should be punished, he replied: “Some say we should throw them om a high place, like God did wh the people of Sodom. Law-enforcement officials say that Ali Muhammad Brown, an ISIS supporter who is now prison for armed robbery, also fac charg for terrorism and four murrs, cludg the 2014 executn of two men Seattle outsi of a gay nightclub. 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.
Conmnatn of homosexualy is ubiquo IS propaganda, where is most often characterized as "the actns of the people of Lot" -- referrg to vers the Quran and saygs attributed to the Prophet Muhammad (hadh) that nmn the ancient figure Lot and his people for acts of sodomy. Given the labor vtigatn required to prove such "offens" and the often-differg opns of Mlim jurists on the matter, is unclear how often this prohibn has been enforced throughout history and how much var Islamic societi have tacly accepted homosexuals.
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 document go on to list the acts that should be punished: blasphemy (agast God, the Prophet, or relign), adultery, homosexualy, theft, alhol nsumptn, lumny, "spyg on behalf of the terts of unbelievers, " apostasy, and highway robbery. Siarly, an October 2015 Wilayat Halab picture say showg the executn of gay men, tled "God's Law Regardg Whoever Commted the 'Act of the People of Lot, '" this argument about the need to apply Islamic law as a means of jtifyg the stong of gay men. This clus articl the group's English and French-language magaz (Dabiq and Dar al-Islam) and vios that pict punishg homosexuals as a means of both exactg retributn agast unbelievers and "matag virtue and terrg immoraly.
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 *
Based on a database llected by the thors, sce the Islamic State announced self as a liphate June 2014, s Diwan al-Hisba (Moral Policg Admistratn) and onle media apparat have publicly announced twenty-seven executns of allegedly gay men. The ma method ed to kill the men has been to throw them off the roofs of high-rise buildgs, based on a hadh which the Prophet's succsor, Abu Bakr, prcrib throwg a man off a cliff for engagg homosexual acts. " Acrdg to leaked fil om Samir Abd Muhammad al-Khlifawi (aka Haji Bakr) -- head of the group's ary uncil and archect of s plans to nquer and admister terrory until his ath January 2014 -- IS told s spi to intify homosexuals when filtratg new terrori so that they uld later be blackmailed.
Once a gay man is ught and sentenced by an Islamic State sharia urt, the group rri out the same tragic b of theatril propaganda rerv for other pal offens: the person is taken to a town square or siar area where a large crowd is prent. While there is still no evince that IS directly stcted Mateen to attack a well-known gay nightclub Orlando, the cint uld dite a new trend of jihadi vigilantism that blends the type of terrorist acts typilly seen the Wt (wanton killg spre or explosns civilian centers) wh a refn of the spe and applitn of Islamic law -- this se, to bypass the more nuanced tradnal legal fns, procs, and stutns and enurage targeted vlence agast LGBT muni and culture by dividual lay Mlims. In the Wt today, where homosexualy was once nsired an illns by the Associatn of Psychiatrists, has now been removed om the list and replaced by homophobia (the dislike of homosexuals and homosexualy).