Amid adly ISIS attacks, fear of persecutn hnts a Syrian gay rights activist phg for rights for lbian, gay, bisexual and trans people.
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- COMFORTER|| MEET A GAY WHO NEVER MISS FUNERAL IN HIS AREA
- AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY
- AMID BRAZEN, ADLY ATTACKS, GAY SYRIANS TELL OF FEAR OF ISIS PERSECUTN
COMFORTER|| MEET A GAY WHO NEVER MISS FUNERAL IN HIS AREA
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.
A survey by Pew Rearch Center asked people whether, quote, "homosexualy should be accepted by society. 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.
AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY
FINDING ‘A MIDDLE GROUND’Tugay Sarac was 13 when his father died eight years ago. “I thought I n't be Mlim and gay at the same time, ” he said.
“This went on for a few years until I went to the Ibn Rhd-Goethe Mosque, where I realized that is actually possible to be Mlim and gay.
AMID BRAZEN, ADLY ATTACKS, GAY SYRIANS TELL OF FEAR OF ISIS PERSECUTN
”Tugay Sarac is the LGBTQ ordator of Ibn Rhd-Goethe Mosque, the only self-scribed liberal mosque Germany. Courty of Tugay SaracIbn Rhd-Goethe Mosque is the only self-scribed liberal mosque Germany. “I know that many gay Mlims turn to radil ias bee they want to cure themselv om homosexualy, ” Sarac explaed.
“Mosqu like Ibn Rhd-Goethe n give people a place to be gay and Mlim. Acrdg to a 2017 Pew Rearch Center survey of Amerin Mlims, a majory (52 percent) believe society should accept homosexualy, pared wh jt 27 percent 2007.
K., however, Mlims are ls acceptg of homosexualy. A 2016 ICM Unlimed survey found only 18 percent of Brish Mlims agreed that homosexualy should be legal Bra.