Meet Ameri’s First Openly Gay Imam | Al Jazeera Ameri

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• MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM
• IMAM FRANCE MARRI TWO GAY MLIMS
• A GAY IMAM'S STORY: 'THE DIALOGUE IS OPEN ISLAM – 10 YEARS AGO WASN'T'
• IMAM ET GAY, IL MARIE SANS DISTCTN - DAAYIEE ABDULLAH
• GAY MLIM COUPLE'S MARRIAGE BLSED BY IMAM
• GAY MLIM IMAM TO PERFORM SAME-SEX MLIM MARRIAG
• FRANCE - LE PREMIER MARIAGE GAY CéLéBRé PAR UN IMAM
• IMAM DAAYIEE ABDULLAH WEL GAY MLIMS TO WORSHIP, MARRY
• AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY

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

IMAM FRANCE MARRI TWO GAY MLIMS

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.

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.

A GAY IMAM'S STORY: 'THE DIALOGUE IS OPEN ISLAM – 10 YEARS AGO WASN'T'

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

IMAM ET GAY, IL MARIE SANS DISTCTN - DAAYIEE ABDULLAH

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

GAY MLIM COUPLE'S MARRIAGE BLSED BY IMAM

BERLIN – An imam France has approved the marriage of two men who had prevly married South Ai, where same-sex marriage is legal, but the French ernment ref to regnize Mlim spirual lear offered his blsg to French- Algerian Ludovic Mohamed Zahed and his partner, Qiyam al-D, a South Ain, durg a ceremony outsi Paris Febary News, Europe’s largt gay news service, reported on Monday about the marriage.

“I was the lecture hall when an imam – who cintally, is gay himself – troduced me to D. ”In an email to The Jesalem Post, Yoav Sivan, an Israeli journalist livg New York, who wr for Gay Cy News, noted that same-sex has been legal South Ai sce 2006. “It might be too early to ame this enuragg event as a trend, but is not too early to take as a remr to stop g homosexualy as a polil weapon agast Islam and relign general, ” Sivan, who served on the boards of Aguda, the Israeli Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr (LGBT) Associatn, the Jesalem Open Hoe and the Israeli board of the World Jewish Congrs, add that the “acceptance of homosexualy among muni of fah n only rult om activism om the si, om those who are mted to relign jt as much as they are mted to progrs.

GAY MLIM IMAM TO PERFORM SAME-SEX MLIM MARRIAG

”Wrg by email om New York to the Post, Jayson Ltman, the founr of He’bro, an anizatn for gay Jews, noted, “Any time we see gay men or women of fah marryg acrdance wh their relig beliefs and proud to do so, brgs the entire LGBT muny of fah one step closer acceptg the different parts of who we are. ” Many tim LGBT people om relig backgrounds e out as gay, but leave their fah the very closet they left, he said. ”Ludovic told al-Bawaba he has known he was gay sce he was young.

” Khan was born to the Mlim fah, while Ty – who intifi as non-bary – is a recent pansexual uple are among a dozen or so people who have gathered to listen to Muhs Hendricks, often lled “the world’s first openly gay imam”.

Unterred, he ntued to spread the msage that beg gay and Mlim are not patible, and is now the subject of a new documentary film, The Radil, which has s European premiere Berl this prayer at Masjadul Ghurbhh.

FRANCE - LE PREMIER MARIAGE GAY CéLéBRé PAR UN IMAM

”In 2011 Hendricks bolstered his role as an imam figure by settg up a mosque space after a iend endured a lol sermon nmng homosexualy.

IMAM DAAYIEE ABDULLAH WEL GAY MLIMS TO WORSHIP, MARRY

’”Same-sex marriage has been legally regnised sce 2006 South Ai, which is more acceptg of homosexualy than many Ain untri. Acrdg to Masjidul Ghurbaah visors such as Khan, though, homophobia is still mon the cy’s mosqu.

AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY

“Havg a space where you n experience your culture and relign whout severe homophobia is very appealg, ” says Khan. Last summer the MJC clared a h fatwa on gay liftyl. ”skip past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotnHendricks says there’s nothg the Qur’an that “should be ed as blanket nmnatn of homosexualy”.

He says there’s nothg the text that should be ed as blanket nmnatn of homosexualy. In 2019 he went to Kenya to promote LGBTQ+ rights ahead of the untry’s high urt upholdg anti-homosexualy laws current activism projects clu creatg onle vios Urdu and Hdi discsg LGBTQ+ Mlims.