An openly gay Imam's LGBTQI-iendly mosque South Ai teach gay rights and Islam

Contents:

• A GAY IMAM'S STORY: 'THE DIALOGUE IS OPEN ISLAM – 10 YEARS AGO WASN'T'
• MEET THE IMAM OF AI’S FIRST GAY-IENDLY MOSQUE
• MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM
• MEET THE GAY IMAM WHO STARTED SOUTH AI'S FIRST LGBTIQ IENDLY MOSQUE
• GAY IMAM HOP TO OPEN ATRALIA'S FIRST LGBTI-IENDLY MOSQUE
• AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY
• GAY IMAM PLANNG HOMOSEXUAL IENDLY MOSQUE MELBOURNE
• GAY IMAM ADMS ISLAM IS DANGERO... SO HE'S OPENG HIS OWN MOSQUE?
• GAY MLIM IMAM TO OPEN FIRST LGTBI MOSQUE ATRALIA
• OPENLY GAY IMAM HOP TO OPEN LGBT-IENDLY MOSQUE ATRALIA
• IMAM ET GAY, IL MARIE SANS DISTCTN - DAAYIEE ABDULLAH
• HOW HAVE MLIMS REACTED TO A LGBT-FRIENDLY MOSQUE IN ATRALIA RUN BY A GAY IMAM?
• PROFILE: CHRISTIAN AWHAN HERMANNFDG A MOSQUE FOR GERMANY’S FIRST GAY IMAM
• A GAY MOSQUE CAPE TOWN SOUNDS THE LL TO PRAYER FOR EVERYONE
• LUDOVIC-MOHAMED ZAHEDLA MOSQUéE CLIVE D'UN IMAM GAY EN AIQUE DU SUD
• GAY IMAM PLANS TO OPEN ATRALIA'S FIRST LGBT-IENDLY MOSQUE
• A GAY IMAM'S STORY: 'THE DIALOGUE IS OPEN ISLAM – 10 YEARS AGO WASN'T'

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

Related topics:Share:Global AgendaThe Agenda WeeklyA weekly update of the most important issu drivg the global agendaMichelle HamerJune 20, 2023Katie Connolly September 5, 2022Gaylor Montmasson-ClairJune 21, 2022Lren van r ReFebary 3, 2022Florian ZandtJanuary 25, 2022Ldiwe MatlaliSeptember 21, 2021. ” 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.

”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.

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

’”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. “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.

MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM

”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. He talks to the few other gay imams around the world, such as Atralia’s Nur Warsame and US-based Daayiee Abdullah, but remas the only one Ai.

MEET THE GAY IMAM WHO STARTED SOUTH AI'S FIRST LGBTIQ IENDLY MOSQUE

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. Many worshippers at the Light of Reform Mosque are not gay.

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

"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.

AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY

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.

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.

GAY IMAM PLANNG HOMOSEXUAL IENDLY MOSQUE MELBOURNE

I fished "gay". At her athbed she said: "I may never unrstand homosexualy.

GAY IMAM ADMS ISLAM IS DANGERO... SO HE'S OPENG HIS OWN MOSQUE?

Atralia's only openly gay Imam is phg for the untry's first LGBTI-iendly mosque that would also act as a safe hoe and unsellg Warsame said he is alg wh an "avalanche of misery" among LGBTI Mlims who have no support servic or safe Nur is a vout Mlim who once led one of Melbourne's largt mosqu.

GAY MLIM IMAM TO OPEN FIRST LGTBI MOSQUE ATRALIA

When he me out as gay 2010 the Mlim clergy severed ti wh him, spe his rare crentials as a hafiz — someone who has memorised the Koran. Nur Warsame ont of the buildg he wants to turn to a gay-iendly mosque. "You are talkg about an iology that believ your repentance is to be killed as a gay person, " he said he gets daily lls for help om young Mlims stgglg wh fierce and, at tim, vlent ristance om their fay and muny.

"'They are tryg to beat the gay out of you'Sam Hawli, 27, me out to his father durg an anxiety attack. ' I put my tst his words and I said to him, 'I'm gay', " Mr Hawli said. "That really was the most prsg time of life, when you are physilly hurt by your fay and when they are tryg to beat the gay out of you.

As a Mlim, my relign teach me that homosexualy is not permissible and we stand by that, " he said. 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.

OPENLY GAY IMAM HOP TO OPEN LGBT-IENDLY MOSQUE ATRALIA

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.

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.

”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.

IMAM ET GAY, IL MARIE SANS DISTCTN - DAAYIEE ABDULLAH

“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. ‘INCLUSIVE AND RELEVANT’Like Kugle, Imam Daayiee Abdullah, one of the first openly gay imams the U. S., believ the prevalent view of homosexualy as a s current Islamic teachg is rooted tradn, rather than scripture.

“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. Dans la maison d'un moe bouddhiste d'un quartier ssu d'une banlie l't parisien va se tenir, vendredi 30 novembre, la première prière pour s homosexuels mulmans. La salle dix mètr rrés dans laquelle Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, portr ce projet, s'stalle viendra la première mosquée ultra-progrsiste d'Europe, un pace à la fois "gay-iendly" et fémiste, où seront accueillis homosexuels, transgenr et transsexuels, et où l femm seront enuragé à mener la prière.

HOW HAVE MLIMS REACTED TO A LGBT-FRIENDLY MOSQUE IN ATRALIA RUN BY A GAY IMAM?

Son associatn, Homosexuels mulmans France, jourd'hui forte 325 membr, a été créée en 2010 avec un pet groupe six personn, se souvient-il. Le moe bouddhiste zen Feri Joko Prop, homosexuel et ant s dros s lbienn, gays, bisexuels et transgenr, lui prête une pièce son dojo par solidaré. Cet homosexuel mulman apprécia l'anonymat du li et le ntenu, jamais polique, s prêch qui y étaient dispensés.

L'homosexualé n't ndamnée nulle part, ni dans le Coran ni dans la sunna. Si le prophète Mahomet éta vivant, il mariera s upl d'homosexuels. "Il y a s mulmans homosexuels, ça existe, mais ouvrir une mosquée, c't une aberratn, parce que la relign, c't pas ça", time Abdallah Zekri, présint l'Observatoire s act islamophob, so l'toré du Conseil ançais du culte mulman (CFCM).

Cours en ligne, urs du soir, ateliers: développez vos pétenc Déuvrir "No ne culpabilisons pas l homosexuels, mais no ne pouvons pas donner une place à cette pratique pot qu'elle vienne un aspect la société", renchér Dalil Boubakr, rectr la Gran Mosquée Paris.

PROFILE: CHRISTIAN AWHAN HERMANNFDG A MOSQUE FOR GERMANY’S FIRST GAY IMAM

Gay imam reveals plans to open Atralia's first homosexual-iendly mosque as he als wh 'avalanche of misery' om Mlim teenagersAtralia's first openly-gay imam wants to open mosque for gay Mlim teensSomali-born Nur Warsame says many of them are shunned by their faiHe is talkg wh Victoria Police about openg a safe refuge ner-Melbourne Published: 08:01 BST, 9 January 2018 | Updated: 10:01 BST, 9 January 2018. Atralia's first openly gay Islamic imam is planng to open a mosque for same-sex attracted Mlim Warsame, who publicly revealed his sexualy 2010, wants to set up a haven Melbourne for young Mlims whose socially-nservative fai have shunned Somali-born imam, who was married wh a dghter, say he is alg wh an 'avalanche of misery' and is talks wh philanthropists to build a refuge mosque an undisclosed ner-cy lotn for Mlims who have experienced vlence om their fai and their down for vio Atralia's first openly-gay imam wants to build a mosque for same-sex attracted Mlims'I had seven people hoed at my one-bedroom apartment... 'Mr Warsame is talks wh Victoria Police to build his gay-iendly mosque.

Nur Warsame is hopg to built a gay-iendly mosque Melbourne for teens fleeg faiHomosexualy is forbidn unr Sharia law, a strict Islamic legal system that proscrib the ath penalty for gay sex, also known as 'lut' Mlims, particular, rive their teachgs om Abu Hurairah, a pann of the Prophet Mohammad, who said: 'If you fd someone who is mtg an act of the mment of lut, kill the one on the top and the one below. 'While fundamentalist Christians nounce homosexualy as a s, Atralia is also home to several fundamentalist Mlim groups that graphilly nmn same-sex clu the Ahl Sunnah Wal Jamaah Associatn, a Sunni group, whose Wollongong-based sheikh Ja El-Biza September scribed gay marriage as 'evil' and scribed same-sex attracted men as 'f****ts' to his 3, 700 Facebook areas of Atralia wh the hight Mlim populatn voted overwhelmgly agast gay marriage last year's postal vote survey, wh the wtern Sydney seat of Watson, which clus Lakemba, returng a 70 per cent No vote. Gay Imam hop to open Atralia's first LGBTI-iendly mosque - ABC News (Atralian Broadstg Corporatn).

Mlims lov gays. When to tossg people off rooftops, gays are their first choice. Other favore Islamic LGBT activi clu: public executns, btal beatgs, and anti-gay ath you n image, thgs weren't exactly rabows and glter for Atralia's first openly gay imam.

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

Atralia's only openly gay Imam is phg for the untry's first LGBTI-iendly mosque that would also act as a safe hoe and unsellg centre. "You are talkg about an iology that believ your repentance is to be killed as a gay person, " he said.

Says himself: Islamic belief cre ath for all homos (see Orlando Imam on Gays: 'Death is the Sentence... Roundg up all the muny's gays and puttg them one bombable buildg seems a rather bad ia. Gayns?

LUDOVIC-MOHAMED ZAHEDLA MOSQUéE CLIVE D'UN IMAM GAY EN AIQUE DU SUD

Peace be upon man seems to thk Islam and gays n exist as well as the bumpersticker on a Pri parked at a Whole Foods.

GAY IMAM PLANS TO OPEN ATRALIA'S FIRST LGBT-IENDLY MOSQUE

An imam Atralia is workg to open the untry's first mosque for LGTBI Mlims, claimg that gay Mlims the untry lack support and safe Warsame, Atralia's only openly gay imam, told Atralian media he als wh an "avalanche of misery" om LGTBI Mlims who need support and muny. Warsame has received ath threats over the years om people who believe homosexualy is patible wh relign. But that hasn't stopped him om speakg openly about what 's like to be both gay and Mlim, and about his experience wh homophobia and Islamophobia.

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

"It's disgtg, bee you suffer om Islamophobia, om both the mastream non-Mlim muny and even some the LGBT muny, and homophobia om both, " he said a 2016 vio terview wh Atralian media. Atralia's first openly gay imam, Nur Warsame (SBS Viceland).

Atralia's only openly gay Imam, Nur Warsame, is phg to create the untry's only LGBT iendly mosque, he told the untry's ABC News televisn statn on Tuday. Warsame, spe beg a hafiz, someone who memorized the Koran, was cut off om the Mlim clergy after he me out 2010 but has sce been workg to further the rights of LGBT Mlims sce Atralia's only openly gay Imam Nur Warsame was terviewed on @abc730 last night: — Sydney Mardi Gras (@sydneymardigras) January 10, 2018 "You are talkg about an iology that believ your repentance is to be killed as a gay person, " he said a televisn terview.