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Contents:

• MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM
• MEET THE IMAM OF AI’S FIRST GAY-IENDLY MOSQUE
• OTED BY A GAY SHEIKH
• THERE ARE 8 OPENLY GAY IMAMS THE WORLD: DAAYIEE ABDULLAH
• BT GAY SHEIKHS
• GAY SHEIKH CREAT A SERT STORM
• GAY SHARM EL SHEIKH, EGYPT | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS SHARM EL-SHEIKH
• GAY COMMUNY THRIV LEBANON
• GAY IMAM HOP TO OPEN ATRALIA'S FIRST LGBTI-IENDLY MOSQUE
• DREAMG OF GAY RIGHTS DELHI
• A GAY MOSQUE CAPE TOWN SOUNDS THE LL TO PRAYER FOR EVERYONE
• GAY PLAC SHARM EL SHEIKH - SHARM EL SHEIKH FOM

MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM

But Imam Daayiee Abdullah – believed to be the only openly gay imam the Ameris – is proud of his story. But as a gay man Ameri, he saw that lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Mlims had unmet spirual needs and he beme an imam to provi muny support.

"Beg an openly gay imam and havg been intified as such, I do get a lot of feedback and also kickback, but that's OK, " said Imam Daayiee Abdullah, of Washgton, D.

MEET THE IMAM OF AI’S FIRST GAY-IENDLY MOSQUE

Performg funeral r for a gay Mlim who died of AIDS. But not all of them are gay.

Many worshippers at the Light of Reform Mosque are not gay. "Beg an openly gay imam and havg been intified as such, I do get a lot of feedback and also kickback, but that's OK, ” he said. “If you go to most Mlim scholars, they're gog to tell you that homosexual acts are a s Islam; that there's no way around , ” said Dr.

OTED BY A GAY SHEIKH

Hse Rashid, an adjunct profsor of relign at Hofstra Universy and ntributor to a report on homosexualy U. “But the tradn was and remas that homosexualy is a s Mlim tradn. The var scholars who ntributed to the project’s report emphasized that there is no sgular terpretatn of homosexualy Islam.

"I thk Daayiee is tryg to say, 'Y, I n be gay and I n be a Mlim, and I n tend to people who are also gay and Mlim, ' that this is part of their inty as a human beg and that the relign of Islam teach people to embrace all aspects of their humany, " he said. Though is unknown how many Amerin Mlims or Mlims around the world are gay, a growg number are vyg to be heard.

The film “I Am Gay and Mlim” tracks several gay Morocn men as they explore their relig and sexual inti. Last year, a gay-iendly mosque opened Paris – Europe’s first.

THERE ARE 8 OPENLY GAY IMAMS THE WORLD: DAAYIEE ABDULLAH

Muhs Hendricks, an openly gay imam Capetown, South Ai, has for years been leadg ngregants and preachg that homosexualy and Islam are not patible.

Andre Carson, D-Ind., have both advoted for gay rights.

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Ain-Amerin Daayiee Abdullah (62) is one of the few publicly gay imams the world.

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Do Islam approve of homosexualy?

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Durg my rearch Sdi Arabia, I found posive terpretatn on homosexualy Quran.

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Is difficult to be a gay imam publicly?

GAY COMMUNY THRIV LEBANON

There are 12 gay imams the world and eight are openly gay. It is not difficult for an dividual to be openly a gay imam but pends on the cultural ntext.

In the Wt, there is much more acceptance of gay imams or Mlim gays. The fendant spent most of the trial tryg to prove he was not gay.

GAY IMAM HOP TO OPEN ATRALIA'S FIRST LGBTI-IENDLY MOSQUE

Before his trial began at the Old Bailey, Prce Sd b Abdulaziz b Nasir al Sd ma strenuo efforts to keep the qutn of his homosexualy 34-year-old prce admted he had asslted his manservant, Bandar Abdulaziz, but nied barrister, John Kelsey-Fry QC, argued the qutn of sexualy was irrelevant to the se and poted out homosexual acts were a "mortal s" unr Islamic sharia Kelsey-Fry said if the prce was outed as a homosexual he uld face executn his native Sdi Arabia. Image ptn, Bandar Abdulaziz was an orphanChristoph Wilcke, a Sdi Arabia expert wh Human Rights Watch, said homosexuals had the past been executed but was ually for rape and he said a prce would be immune om urt the trial began, Mr Kelsey-Fry went to great lengths to strs his client nied he was a strg of wns suggted otherwise. A hotel porter, Dobromir Dimrov, himself homosexual, said: "I would scribe them as a gay uple.

DREAMG OF GAY RIGHTS DELHI

"But Mr Kelsey-Fry, cross examg Mr Dimrov, told him: "It is not accepted that this was fact a gay uple - but I readily accept that you had the imprsn they were a gay uple.

A GAY MOSQUE CAPE TOWN SOUNDS THE LL TO PRAYER FOR EVERYONE

"Two male rts, Pablo Silva and Louis Szikora, also gave evince they had performed sex acts on the photosAlthough the prce never gave evince, durg police terviews he sisted he was heterosexual and had a girliend Sdi Mr Laidlaw said this was a lie: "The fendant's keepg back of his homosexualy might other circumstanc, bee of the cultural background perhaps, be explaed away by embarrassment, or ed, fear. Profsor Gregory Gse, a Sdi Arabia expert, said: "Homosexualy is nsired extremely shameful Sdi Arabia and there is not a publicly acknowledged homosexual muny. But, for young Sdi men, ntact wh the oppose sex is extremely difficult so there might be a temptatn to experiment before marriage, " said Prof Gse, om the Universy of said about 5, 000 Sdi prc get a yearly stipend of about $200, 000 (£126, 000), but some were "fabuloly wealthy" assltAn sight to the prce's bashfulns about his homosexualy was given by one of the rts, Mr Szikora, who scribed visg the prce for a two-hour "erotic" ssn three days before the said: "The man I met ultimately did want sexual massage but is like mixg Nigel Havers wh Omar Sharif.

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As I predicted last week, the Dubai Lerary Ftival, sponsored by Emirat, is fdg difficult to rencile the rigours of ee speech wh the sert kgdom's paranoia about dgs, homosexualy and Judaism. Dpe s ambn to "celebrate the world of books all s fe variety", this lavish ftival has got off to a shaky start by banng Observer wrer Geralde Bell, thor of The Gulf Between Us, on the grounds that the novel picts a gay sheikh wh an English boyiend.

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