Mlim attus about LGBT are plex, far om universally anti-gay

Contents:

• I'M GAY AND MLIM. I SAW MYSELF THE QURAN
• MLIM ATTUS ABOUT LGBT ARE PLEX, FAR OM UNIVERSALLY ANTI-GAY
• HOMOSEXUALY AND ISLAM: WHAT DO THE QUR’AN ACTUALLY SAY ABOUT GAY PEOPLE?
• GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE

I'M GAY AND MLIM. I SAW MYSELF THE QURAN

Like other forms of sex, homosexualy would only be bad when to abe, excs or vlatn of public morn gay and lbian Mlim activists disagree wh this terpretatn, argug that the people of Lot were stroyed not bee of participatn same-sex acts, but bee of miseds which clud refg to worship one God, disregardg the thory of the Prophets, and attemptg to rape the travelers, a crime ma even worse by the fact that the travelers were unr Lot's protectn and hospaly (for example: Kuggle, Stt, and Stephen Hunt. As reports emerge that Omar Mateen ed a gay datg app and patronized the gay nightclub Pulse, so has speculatn that he may have been eply nflicted about his inty.

Thoands of sympathizers wh the self-clared Islamic State (IS) eher praised the attack, which killed at least 49 and jured dozens more, or dismissed the ad as “merely gays. ”“Rejoice, for they are gays such as Lot Sodom, where God unleashed upon them his torment, ” one sympathizer, who pledged alliance to IS, also reportedly followed the propaganda of Al Qaeda, which has lled for the killg of “viants” such as gays.

MLIM ATTUS ABOUT LGBT ARE PLEX, FAR OM UNIVERSALLY ANTI-GAY

While IS c the Quran as s thory, Mlim clerics are far om agreement on how homosexuals should be al-Odah, a leadg Sdi cleric wh 9 ln Twter followers, said an terview wh a Swedish newspaper April 30 that even though homosexualy is nsired a s the Torah, Bible, and Quran, acrdg to Islam the punishment the next world, not this one. "Those that say homosexuals are viants of Islam, they are the te viants and their actns are a graver s than the homosexuals themselv, ” he add, a statement on his the Quran saysIS tak a far ls nuanced view, attemptg to take jtice to their own hands. ”In Augt 2015, members of the LGBT muny om ISIS-held Syria and Iraq told the Uned Natns that the group go through the phon of spected homosexuals and targets their ntacts.

HOMOSEXUALY AND ISLAM: WHAT DO THE QUR’AN ACTUALLY SAY ABOUT GAY PEOPLE?

“Who is better than God judgment – settg a lim on the people of Lot, ” says one such vio, before pictg the group shovg two spected gay men off a rooftop Homs, such filmed executns, IS mak multiple referenc to Quranic passag on Lot and the stctn of Sodom and Gomorrah, referrg to the people of Lot as “crimals. ” And Middle Eastern ernments, ground nservative social or tribal valu, have often taken the lead persecutg LGBT, Sdi Arabia, Qatar, Yemen and the UAE all have var laws llg for the ath penalty certa stanc of “homosexualy. ” Mateen’s father’s homeland of Afghanistan also outlaws homosexualy, wh the crime rryg a penalty of five to 15 years Egypt, Print Abdul Fattah Sisi, who oted Islamist print Mohammed Morsi 2013 and brought back a more secular Egyptian regime, has persecuted the LGBT muny, jailg dozens so-lled “moraly raids, ” even televisg a nighttime raid on a bathhoe spected as a equent hnt for the gay opponents to crimalizg homosexualy n also be found across the spectm of Islamists.

Odah, Rached Ghannouchi, -founr of Tunisia’s Islamist Nahda party, stated an terview that the untry’s law crimalizg homosexualy should be have been no rerd executns for homosexualy the Arab world over the past 30 years, but hundreds of jail sentenc. ”In the days sce last’s week massacre at an Orlando gay nightclub, which a Mlim man killed 49 people, attentn has foced on homophobia among Mlims.

And gay Mlims have talked about livg between that rock of anti-gay anger and the hard place of Islamophobia that only creased after the Orlando attacks. Reports: Orlando gunman, wife exchanged texts durg rampageInvtigators are nsirg whether Omar Mateen was at least partially motivated by his abily to accept that he was gay. Hackers add rabows, gay pri slogans to Islamic State acuntsAttus towards LBGT people  Mlim muni are plex, and far om universally Mlims, like Abdullah, are welg what they see as an openg wh their muni to addrs anti-gay attus.

GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE

Past years, cludg Mlims for Progrsive Valu and the Mlim Alliance for Sexual and Genr young Mlims who often feel differently about homosexualy than their elrs are creasgly speakg out support of gay rights, as relign scholar Reza Aslan and edian Hasan Maj did an open letter to Amerin Mlims after last year’s Supreme Court cisn legalizg gay are potg toward the Quran and a history of relative tolerance.

“In 1858 the Ottoman Empire crimalized homosexualy, 100 years before they did so the Wt, ” said Abdullah, referrg to the empire that led over Turkey and much of the prent-day Middle East the 15th and 16th centuri. Mlims said should be disuraged and 45 percent said should be they were not the relig group that was most disapprovg: Evangelil Christians, Jehovah’s Wns and Mormons oppose homosexualy by larger the picture is starker. In only three of the nearly 40 untri surveyed do as many as one--ten Mlims say that homosexualy is morally acceptable: Uganda (12%), Mozambique (11%) and Banglash (10%) almost all of the 10 untri that allow the ath penalty for same-sex sexual relatns are Mlim-majory natns.