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Contents:
- FOR THE FIRST TIME, TEXAS VOTERS SEND MLIMS AND OPENLY GAY BLACK MEN TO LEGISLATURE
- MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM
- IN A SURVEY OF AMERIN MLIMS, 0% INTIFIED AS LBIAN OR GAY. HERE’S THE STORY BEHD THAT STATISTIC
- WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY AND MLIM
- CAN ONE BE MLIM AND GAY?
- GAY MLIM MOVIE 'NAZ + MAALIK' EXPLOS STEREOTYP
- EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
- MLIM GAY MEN: INTY NFLICT AND POLICS A MLIM MAJORY NATN
FOR THE FIRST TIME, TEXAS VOTERS SEND MLIMS AND OPENLY GAY BLACK MEN TO LEGISLATURE
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 black muslim *
Voters Texas add to the diversy of their state Legislature on Tuday, triplg the number of openly gay Black lawmakers holdg office and electg the first two Mlim lawmakers to serve the Capol. Conservative lawmakers recent years have raised ncerns about books schools that portray the experienc of gay and transgenr people and dited an tert banng some ntent. Any Mlim knows this which is why the Mlim Amerin muny has nmned his actns regardls of their feelgs toward homosexualy.
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MEET AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY IMAM
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Courty of Mree TurnerIf she ws, Turner will follow the footsteps of trailblazg queer reprentativ who’ve held the seat: McAfey was the first openly gay person the state’s legislature, and was followed by Kay Floyd, who is openly lbian and served until 2014. 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.
IN A SURVEY OF AMERIN MLIMS, 0% INTIFIED AS LBIAN OR GAY. HERE’S THE STORY BEHD THAT STATISTIC
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"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. "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. The var scholars who ntributed to the project’s report emphasized that there is no sgular terpretatn of homosexualy Islam.
WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY AND MLIM
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"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. Muhs Hendricks, an openly gay imam Capetown, South Ai, has for years been leadg ngregants and preachg that homosexualy and Islam are not patible. "Image source, AlamyImage ptn, Joy, sunglass, says LGBT Mlims face prsur of both homophobia and IslamophobiaJoy is a member of Imaan - a group of LGBT Mlims who are hopg to crowdfund £5, 000 to put on the volved wh Black Pri and Trans Pri have prevly told Newsbeat that their events are important bee of abe they've experienced wh the LGBT says this happens to LGBT Mlims as well.
"Image source, Getty ImagHomosexualy is agast the law some Middle Eastern untri - where Islam is most monly practised.
CAN ONE BE MLIM AND GAY?
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. 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. “Beg Mlim, Arabic and gay and th a member of several mory groups opened my ey: Mori are beg discrimated agast, particularly tim of enomic crisis.
GAY MLIM MOVIE 'NAZ + MAALIK' EXPLOS STEREOTYP
That was until she met openly gay imam Daayiee Abdullah, a former Southern Baptist turned Mlim who studied the Quran Beijg and opened a gay mosque Washgton. Wh the rise of LGBT, the qutn of ‘ n one be Mlim and gay’ gaed a lot of populary while reflectg a very ep lack of knowledge about Islam.
While those who fall to s but still rema te to their ttimony for Allah, are Islamic Defn of GaynsIt is very important to clarify fns before talkg about l and Judgments. So they are able to sell the ia of “gay inty, ” tryg to mix actns wh orientatns and make them terchangeable to hi that exact fact. All of those are not actns, not choic and not somethg subject to moral judgments; while all of that apply to dog gay acts.
The followg are general l for all eds and actns, cludg gayns:1- One n be a Mlim if he says the Shahadah acceptg and followg them wh certaty and scery. Concln So, to apply those basic ncepts jt mentned: Dog gayns is wrong and is a great s bee the Creator of the heavens and the Earth clared as such.
EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
What ntradicts beg a Mlim and nullifi is if a Mlim (wh gay thoughts, actns or none at all) chang or fi the l of his Creator for the sake of personal subjective opns (like the example of Iblis). The Orlando shootg was a hate crime agast gay people – even if, once emerged that the attacker had been a Mlim, many people claimed this as a terrorist attack rather than a hate crime.
Sce the massacre there has been a lot of speculatn about Islam and homosexualy and there are fears that one man’s spible act of terrorism uld fan the flam of Islamophobia and other forms of social excln, leadg to disrd and unrt an era of elevated Islamophobia. It is difficult to fe the “Islamic posn” on homosexualy, as a monolhic phenomenon, simply bee Islam is a very diverse fah group wh some 1. They tend to draw on the story of Lot the Koran (also the Old Ttament) which reunts the stctn of the tribe of Lot allegedly due to their engagement homosexual acts as “evince” for God’s nmnatn of homosexualy.
MLIM GAY MEN: INTY NFLICT AND POLICS A MLIM MAJORY NATN
Theologil and legal nmnatns of homosexualy n engenr perceptns at a social level that homosexualy is wrong and that should not be permted. In the UK, none of the Mlim rponnts viewed homosexualy as morally acceptable (vers 58% of the general public who did). The rults found that 18% of the Brish Mlim rponnts agreed that homosexualy should be legal Bra while the majory (52%) disagreed.
Furthermore, 47% of the Brish Mlim rponnts dited that they did not believe that was acceptable for a gay person to bee a teacher.