Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed has risked anger and jury to further the e of gay Mlims. Ten years after he tablished Europe's first clive mosque, he explor what has changed.
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- IN A SURVEY OF AMERIN MLIMS, 0% INTIFIED AS LBIAN OR GAY. HERE’S THE STORY BEHD THAT STATISTIC
- LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
- EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
- A GAY IMAM'S STORY: 'THE DIALOGUE IS OPEN ISLAM – 10 YEARS AGO WASN'T'
- GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE
- WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY AND MLIM
- THE SECRET MOSQU OPENG THEIR DOORS TO GAY MLIMS
IN A SURVEY OF AMERIN MLIMS, 0% INTIFIED AS LBIAN OR GAY. HERE’S THE STORY BEHD THAT STATISTIC
For many LGBT Mlims, g out of the closet to their fai and relig muni n be a ght cisn. One Mlim lear says she receiv lls regularly om young gay and lbian Mlims who are aaid to reveal their sexual inty. * gay moslems *
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. The percentage of Amerin Mlims who said society should accept homosexualy has doubled the last , to 52%, and is even higher among Millennials.
Ani Zonneveld says she receiv lls regularly om young gay and lbian Mlims who have been threatened by their fay or are aaid to reveal their sexual inty.
LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
Muhs Hendricks, the ‘world’s first gay imam’ wants to help LGBTQ+ Mlims South Ai rencile their sexualy wh their fah * gay moslems *
Now, Qadhi often prefac his remarks about homosexualy by notg that “feelgs and clatns” are not themselv sful, and that homosexual acts should not be sgled out for special nmnatn. Mogahed herself me unr attack several years ago after a Gallup survey showed that no Brish Mlims – as , 0% – said homosexualy was morally acceptable. If 92% of Amerin Mlims intified as straight, she said, then the remag 8% may be lbian or gay, even if they’re reluctant say so.
In the Wt today, where homosexualy was once nsired an illns by the Associatn of Psychiatrists, has now been removed om the list and replaced by homophobia (the dislike of homosexuals and homosexualy). Arguments favour of tolerance towards homosexuals are based on the assumptn that homosexual behavur is blogilly based and not merely learned om society.
EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
A three-storey mosque and Islamic centre, named 'Picdilly Prayer Space,' is set to be tablished wh the Troro, a historic entertament plex London's entertament quarter. However, the cisn to build the mosque has also sparked a bate, wh crics qutng s lotn, also known for s bars, nightclubs, gay venu and strip jots. * gay moslems *
To unter such arguments, homosexual rearchers sured the earth until they found supposed homosexual behavur among the animal kgdom.
A GAY IMAM'S STORY: 'THE DIALOGUE IS OPEN ISLAM – 10 YEARS AGO WASN'T'
The official fictn, Brian Whaker explas, is that gay people don’t exist the Middle East. They do – and for many of them, attus of fay and society are a bigger problem than fear of beg persecuted * gay moslems *
Durg the 1980’s was claimed that a gland the base of the bra which is small women and large men was found to be small among homosexuals. Dean Hamer, a rearcher at the Natnal Cancer Instute, claimed to have disvered 'the first ncrete evince that ‘gay gen’ really do exist.
He gave expert ttimony to the Colorado Supreme Court that formed the basis of the victor cisn strikg down anti-gay proposns. Furthermore, June 1994, the Chigo Tribune reported that a junr rearcher Hamer’s laboratory who assisted the gene mappg the homosexualy study, alleged that he selectively reported his data.
GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE
* gay moslems *
It is nceivable that God ma people homosexuals then clared a crime and prcribed punishments for both this life and the next.
WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY AND MLIM
Lia Darj photographed people var untri who are both gay and Mlim. Among her subjects were openly gay imams Europe and the Uned Stat. * gay moslems *
” 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.
THE SECRET MOSQU OPENG THEIR DOORS TO GAY MLIMS
’”Same-sex marriage has been legally regnised sce 2006 South Ai, which is more acceptg of homosexualy than many Ain untri. ”skip past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotnHendricks says there’s nothg the Qur’an 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.