Beg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or any other sexual orientatn or genr inty is difficult enough on s own, but beg Mlim as well n e one to stggle wh rencilg their inty wh Islam and Allah. However,...
Contents:
- WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY AND MLIM AMERI
- CAN ONE BE MLIM AND GAY?
- IN A SURVEY OF AMERIN MLIMS, 0% INTIFIED AS LBIAN OR GAY. HERE’S THE STORY BEHD THAT STATISTIC
- CAN A MLIM BE GAY?
- AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY
- WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY AND MLIM
WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY AND MLIM AMERI
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 och muslim *
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.
CAN ONE BE MLIM AND GAY?
* gay och muslim *
In most Mlim untri, homosexualy is illegal and some untri, cludg Iran and Sdi Arabia, is punishable by ath.
Most Islamic scholars are agreement that homosexualy is patible wh Islamic theology.
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. Many scholars also ce the Ahadh (statements attributed to the Prophet Muhammed) that are nmnatory of homosexualy.
IN A SURVEY OF AMERIN MLIMS, 0% INTIFIED AS LBIAN OR GAY. HERE’S THE STORY BEHD THAT STATISTIC
Theologil and legal nmnatns of homosexualy n engenr perceptns at a social level that homosexualy is wrong and that should not be permted.
CAN A MLIM BE GAY?
In 2009, a Gallup survey revealed negative attus towards homosexualy among European Mlims.
AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY
In France, 35% of Mlims viewed homosexualy as “morally acceptable” (vers 78% of the general public). 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.
WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY AND MLIM
Conversely, only 5% of the general public thought homosexualy should be illegal. Furthermore, 47% of the Brish Mlim rponnts dited that they did not believe that was acceptable for a gay person to bee a teacher. The data suggt that there are low levels of acceptance of homosexualy Mlim muni the UK.
In my rearch to attus ncerng homosexualy among sampl of first and send-generatn Brish Mlims of Pakistani scent, I found that attus tend to be largely negative.