The Complited Fay Liv of Gay Mlims

Contents:

• MLIM UNCIL SECRETARY GENERAL 'FORCED TO RIGN' AFTER ATTENDG GAY SON'S WEDDG
• THE PLITED FAY LIFE BEHD A GAY MLIM MARRIAGE
• KU NA CHIPSI / A GAY MARRIAGE GONE SOUR
• GAY MARRIAGE

MLIM UNCIL SECRETARY GENERAL 'FORCED TO RIGN' AFTER ATTENDG GAY SON'S WEDDG

Sign up to our Eveng Headl email for your daily gui to the latt newsSign up to our ee US Eveng Headl emailA mother says she has been forced to rign as secretary general of an Islamic fah anisatn after she attend the marriage of her gay son. Earlier this month, a gay Mlim man named Ali Reza married his partner Pl Vanuver. The groom's mother, Siddika, was forced to rign om her posn at rignatn notice, sent the form of an open letter, scrib how she me to accept her son's homosexualy and support his marriage to Pl.

It was christened the “first gay Mlim weddg” by the Brish tabloid prs. Wh days, the uple’s post-nuptial celebratn was abptly cut short as they received acid attack the world and nearly simultaneoly, there was another weddg volvg a Mlim fay and their gay son.

A Geography of TabooHomosexualy remas taboo most Mlim muni, wh a 2013 Pew global survey on Mlim views chroniclg overwhelmg disapproval of homosexualy all Mlim-majory untri and terrori surveyed. However, Siddika’s story also reveals the dichotomy between the rigid views of many Mlim lears and the plex, diverse and nuanced perspectiv of ordary Mlims, pecially those livg the fay’s oral highlights the unique challeng, but plex circumstanc, many Mlims face when they e out as gay or are perceived as gay.

THE PLITED FAY LIFE BEHD A GAY MLIM MARRIAGE

Ten untri currently have ath penalty provisns for homosexual activy — all of them are Mlim-majory. Still, a 2014 Pew survey found that a higher percentage of Amerin Mlims support same-sex marriage, than did rponnts who intified as evangelil Christian, Mormon or Jehovah’s Khakoo, a 24-year-old Khoja Atralia, said the cint sh an unfortable light on an tergeneratnal and geographic clash of valu that go beyond views on homosexualy. She believ the Vanuver story shows the need for anizatns like PFLAG, formerly known as Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays, to support Mlim fai who suffer om heteronormative relig terpretatns that she lled “un-Islamic” Hasan, a London-based imam and theologil scholar who argu that homosexualy is not explicly nmned Islamic tradn, said, “Whatever one’s views and terpretatns, we should appld the brave and passnate voice of the mother who rrectly remd that mercy is the sential teachg of the Qur’an.

In recent s, many have immigrated to Europe, North Ameri, and her rignatn letter obtaed by INTO, Siddika wrote she was “shocked, vastated, and heartbroken” when Ali Reza me out ten years ago, at the age of 20, as gay.

Many wrers ced stori and vers om the Qur’an to nmn homosexualy. This divisn parallels the Anglin church’s stggle rencilg the ongog opposn to homosexualy staed by many member church velopg Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheri Jamaat of Dar Salaam, a mosque based Tanzania, wrote that “vehemently nmns this disgtg act to s fullt, ” notg that the fay members should be “willgly or forcefully” removed om days after the weddg, an anonymo er posted an onle mpaign on, llg for the rignatn of the Khoja North Amerin muny anizatn’s learship.

KU NA CHIPSI / A GAY MARRIAGE GONE SOUR

The Khoja anizatns did not rpond to repeated requts for many have cricized — and even cursed — the Mlim mother who stood by her gay son his happit moments, others, particularly young Khojas the Wt, ntue to support the fay private. Hooray and Kudo to Ali Raza son of Firoz and Siddika Jsa for boldly solemnisg his gay marriage. Inrporate Solemnisatn of Gay marriag our nstutn.

Arrange trags for the Imams to nduct Islamic gay marriag. (1) are we meant to be supportive and iendly towards the gays bee of sayed sistanis recent quote about the homos? My rponse is, do what you want, you live a untry where gay marriage is allowed, so if you want to do , go ahead, but don't try and twist the relign to jtify your actns.

GAY MARRIAGE

What they (homosexuals) do behd closed doors is their bs. Two gays marryg and llg themselv mlims n eher be a matter of propaganda and/or a matter of beg unable to pletely leave one's relign (mon sense mak me thk is more related to the later).