Lut’s People: The stggle to be gay & Mlim South Ai - IWMF

Contents:

• GAY RAMADAN: CGHT BETWEEN FASTG AND SNG
• AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY
• FASTG, RAMADAN AND GAY PRI – MARCHG TO END RELIG HOMOPHOBIA [VIO]
• GAY BRISH MLIM’S JOURNEY TO 365 DAYS OF FASTG TO CURE HOMOSEXUALY.
• EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
• LUT’S PEOPLE: THE STGGLE TO BE GAY & MLIM SOUTH AI
• WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY AND MLIM

GAY RAMADAN: CGHT BETWEEN FASTG AND SNG

Would a gay man keepg the fast be shunned by fellow Mlims who fd abomatn of their relign to dream that a 'viant’ or non-abidg ( the Orthodox sense) Mlim's fast would be accepted by Allah? The relatnship between viance and relign has almost always been troublome, and unr that headg, there are spl views on the relatnship between homosexualy and relign; most classilly, that members of the LGBTIQ (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Intersex and Queer) tomatilly go to hell, or they don’t and are like the rt of the people, and not to be judged ath based on their sexual orientatns.

Narrowg down to Islam, the spl is the same, however, more on the si of the nmnatn, spe there beg many views on homosexualy among Mlims, owg to factors such as the scholarly terpretatn of the Quranic verse “we created you as partners” as not necsarily referrg to heterosexual relatnships. ” So here the gay Mlim is classg himself a sner by virtue of his sexual orientatn beg ‘un-orthodox’ and therefore un-Sunni or ntradictn of Islamic law Next, I wanted to see if sexual orientatn mattered to any of the terviewe: Q: (To Awome Rebel) Do you thk there is any signifince between beg gay and not fastg?

AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY

Most of them are not (fastg) ‘cuz beg gay is haram (to be abstaed om Islam) ed, (however) I have a uple of gay iends who actually pray and stuff and some mory (of them) don't drk alhol (which is forbidn by Islam). However, those who would class themselv as Mlim but feel guilty about beg homosexual, sometim e Ramadan as an ‘extra cred’ opportuny of sorts to make amends to prove to their God that they n be virtuo durg Ramadan, as well as to prove to themselv that they n be as relig as their heterosexual unterparts. However when to fastg, their reasons for fastg or not fastg, are often tied up wh their Lennox nclus a rrelative pattern for the general muny between votn and fastg that the gay muny to not tend to stray om.

FASTG, RAMADAN AND GAY PRI – MARCHG TO END RELIG HOMOPHOBIA [VIO]

His brief sns of his iends and fellow Lebane on the streets seems to rroborate this hypothis, revealg that the gree to which a gay person engag wh Ramadan or experienc as a Mlim jt pends on the gay person's gree of votn generally the year round and extent of fah practiced. It ually follows that therefore that a gay practicg Mlim (regardls of what that stat self impli for some Mlim believers) will chose to fast Ramadan, while a gay non-believer who still class as a Mlim might forego the duti of the holy month.

GAY BRISH MLIM’S JOURNEY TO 365 DAYS OF FASTG TO CURE HOMOSEXUALY.

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. “Many tradns are locked to a particular time, place and culture — they're not necsarily appropriate for today or for people who will be worshippg 50 years om now, ” Abdullah Daayiee Abdullah, founr of the Mec Instute, is one of the first openly gay Imams the U.

Thank you Ahmer for allowg the film crew to follow your journey, and thank every one of you that volunteered to march wh our Foundatn… every step taken is a step closer to endg relig homophobia.

EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI

E: I lerally knew nobody else that, you know, intified as such - plenty of Christians, even some Jewish dividuals, but not Other relig muni are havg the same ternal stggl about cln and homophobia. Part of the reason I wanted to kill myself when I was younger is bee I thought better to take my own life while I hadn't mted any grave ss yet stead of livg my life wh the risk I may m the s of a homosexual act. My g out experience was at a time when the HIV/AIDS CRISIS was at a peak, Sectn 28 which banned the promotn of “any form of homosexualy” was full force and g om a relatively relig background (my father was a founr member of Birmgham Central Mosque) not only created relig guilt my md, but ma me feel that I uldn’t be as exprsive as I had liked or even to be sexually active would have negative nsequenc — to face the threat of HIV, be ostracized by the fay and muny if they ever found out I was gay or face eternal hell, damnatn and fire, as tght to me by my elrs and relig lears.

LUT’S PEOPLE: THE STGGLE TO BE GAY & MLIM SOUTH AI

If we were to look at the issu and them, the mortal men sired Angels the guise of men and there were other issu at play too — ntrol, rape, promiscuy, ct, nsent, tts of fah and loyalty to Allah or God, idolatry and worship of i, and toxitn, amongst other them, which had no beargs on beg gay self. ” to which Dihyah repli, “believe or not the three of Us exist through the Will of Allah, we have an endls rource of Hband’s wag the three realms that haven’t revealed themselv yet, and Jzar has already picked the first 9 out of the 99 that he tends of beg married to if we are all passg our tt of our celibacy homosexualy the pre-afterlife that we are currently livg , brothers I’m sorry but I want to be straight so when the next life beg’s I’m choosg to go after the 77 hoor al Ayn mentned the book as already beg wrten for me if Allah fiv for the prev livg on the basis that we now practice Celibacy om the ey, the ears and the hand, i believe I am stronger then you Jzar, s me whose now helpg you, Walkg, n we jump to a few of the earlier short stori we’ve wrten? Walkg repli, “I’ve already wrten you a draft book lled planks and you’ve fally spoken and provid the begng, but regardls, the fastg entri will now jo wh the chapter entri, to show if we are celibate our after life is a realy by the Will of Allah’s love for our cisn to be celibate homosexualy and wa to live the life style Jannah be one man out of three when the act has been purified and is no longer forbidn, so i gus really is a treat if you are te your words of beg the 3rd day of beg Celibate…”.

Instead my false assumptn that beg gay was a s ( I know now aged 25 that the emotns and feelgs are not sful for we have no ntrol over but more so the sexual act is a s)that lead me to suici on many acunts and the downward spiral to nearly stroyg my life and givg up on everythg. About ten years ago I took 40 pa killers ready to die and g the suatn to e out to my fay which rulted spendg 4 days hospal and then g to the realy that I ma a big mistake by screamg ‘I am gay’ at the top of my lungs before beg reassured by my cryg mother and sisters that everythg would be okay, not long after did I realise that g out and beg accepted my fay was a no go area, y they accepted that I had mted the s and more or ls swept unr the g, thkg was a… I look to the time of wrg this entry 3. 46am and I realise I have 365 days to tell you about my suatn so take as a taster of the pths I tend to re analyse my life the hop that some of you a siar posn uld relate and embark on the same journey I am about to beg, bee if I cut to the chase, after a life full of Za and other ss, I e to the ncln that the only cure to homosexualy and sexual urg is already given to mankd if one is clever enough to see the route prcribed, shall I make obv to you of what this route is?

You’ll get a better chance of fdg out more about this but due to the crease time for me to shower eat and pray and start my fast, for now for the first entry I will state my problem beg homosexualy and low ntrol over acts of Za and basilly a stctive life style and ’s cure, as obv as seems, the answer li the followg. Acrdg to the kgdom’s relig police, the school was fed 100, 000 riyals ($26, 650) for displayg “the emblem of the homosexuals” on s buildg, one of s admistrators was jailed and the offendg parapet was swiftly repated to match a blue rabow-ee se of the gaily pated school shows how progrs one part of the world n have adverse effects elsewhere and serv as a remr that there are plac where the nnectn between rabows and LGBT rights is eher new or yet to be Afghanistan, only a few years ago, there was a craze for ratg rs wh rabow stickers – which Che factori were only too happy to supply.

WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY AND MLIM

It wasn’t until the Afghan Pajhwok news agency explaed how they might be misterpreted that the craze me to a sudn on the ter and you will also fd pi of the “Rabow Qur’an” for sale – an unnscly gay edn of the holy book wh tted pag of every hue and remend on one webse as “an ial gift for Mlims” there are two sis to this cross-cultural misunrstandg. Genr segregatn, which go to extreme lengths the more nservative Mlim untri, enurag homosocial behavur, creatg a suatn where men are often more fortable the prence of other men and where placg a hand on another man’s knee is a sign of iendship, not an vatn to sex.

Historilly, Mlim societi have often acknowledged this – toleratg to some extent even if they the 19th and early 20th centuri, men who had been persecuted for their sexualy Europe often sought refuge Moroc and, long before same-sex marriage was dreamed of the wt, male-on-male partnerships were regnised – and marked wh a ceremony – the remote Egyptian oasis of some Mlim untri, whole towns have bee the butt of jok about the supposed homosexualy of their habants.

In Egypt, for example, an old law agast “bchery” is often laws have a tastrophic effect on the liv of people who are unlucky enough to get ught but, spe ocsnal crackdowns, the thori don’t, on the whole, actively seek out gay people to arrt them. In England 1952, there were 670 prosecutns for sodomy, 3, 087 for attempted sodomy or cent asslt, and 1, 686 for gross problem wh such laws, even if not vigoroly enforced, is that they signal official disapproval of homosexualy and, upled wh the fulmatns of relig scholars, legimise discrimatn by dividuals at an everyday level and may also provi an exce for actn by vigilant.