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- AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY
- MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM
- TORONTO MOSQUE IS GAY IENDLY, MIXED GENR PRAYERS LED BY A WOMAN
- HALIFAX'S FIRST GAY-IENDLY MOSQUE OPENG THIS SUMMER
- GAY TORONTO
AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY
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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.
MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM
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FINDING ‘A MIDDLE GROUND’Tugay Sarac was 13 when his father died eight years ago.
TORONTO MOSQUE IS GAY IENDLY, MIXED GENR PRAYERS LED BY A WOMAN
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“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.
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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. ‘INCLUSIVE AND RELEVANT’Like Kugle, Imam Daayiee Abdullah, one of the first openly gay imams the U.
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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. 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.
Gay 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.