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Contents:
- A GAY IMAM'S STORY: 'THE DIALOGUE IS OPEN ISLAM – 10 YEARS AGO WASN'T'
- CAN A MLIM ATTEND A GAY WEDDG?
- MLIMS WHO STRONGLY FAVOR OR FAVOR GAY MARRIAGE
- EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
- GAY MARRIAGE: ISLAMIC VIEW
- CAN A MLIM BE GAY?
- IS GAY MARRIAGE PROHIBED? [DUPLITE]
A GAY IMAM'S STORY: 'THE DIALOGUE IS OPEN ISLAM – 10 YEARS AGO WASN'T'
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. * islam and gay marriage *
However, acrdg to a recent survey by Public Relign Rearch Center, more than half (52%) of Amerin Mlims ageed that "society should approve of homosexualy.
How Amerin Mlims Mt Rpond to Orlando Israel's First Gay Major General Is No Cse for Pri The Real Opprsors of Gaza's Gay Communy Beit Pri Canceled After Organizer Detaed by Authori Lebanon last year beme the first Arab untry to hold a gay pri week, though the openg event was nceled bee of safety ncerns after threats of vlence.
CAN A MLIM ATTEND A GAY WEDDG?
* islam and gay marriage *
>> After Orlando: Amerin Mlims mt challenge our muny's homophobia || Opn >> The ath penalty stead om the Hadh, or acunts of the saygs of the Prophet Muhammad.
Across the Arab world, gays have been arrted and sentenced to prison on charg lked to "bchery" - and faced floggg or even the ath penalty Iran and Sdi Arabia.
MLIMS WHO STRONGLY FAVOR OR FAVOR GAY MARRIAGE
As-Salamu `alaykum. I have heard that some a state the US has enacted a law that allows gay marriag. What is your ment on this? * islam and gay marriage *
In Egypt, there have been police raids of spected gay gathergs and people have been put on trial g a vague legal text that equat homosexualy wh prostut and tri gays for "vlatg public moraly.
EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
" "Middle Eastern and North Ain untri have nounced the Orlando shootg when at the same time they crimalize homosexualy wh sentenc rangg om years prison to the ath penalty, " said Ahmed Benchemsi, munitns and advocy director for the Middle East and North Ai at Human Rights Watch. In Syria, al-Qaida's lol branch as well as other Islamic surgent groups battlg ISIS, have also killed gays and some homosexuals have had to flee the untry for their own safety.
Recently Council of Imams Queensland print Yuf Peer said gay marriage was unacceptable to Islam, and that Mlims should rpect LGBTQI people but "nmn only their actns" the statement om the Natnal Imams Council was unambiguo: "Islam plac the fay un at the heart of a healthy society, and this ntext, the right of children to be red for and raised by both a mother and father is one that mt be protected. Consens 'difficult' to achieveAs Ri Jaspal, Profsor of Psychology & Sexual Health om De Montfort Universy poted out, is difficult to fe a sgle Islamic posn on homosexualy, bee Islam is diverse, wh about 1. 6 billn followers across six all, while homosexualy is illegal most Islamic untri cludg Iran and Sdi Arabia, is not others such as Jordan and Mr Jaspal wrote for The Conversatn: "Most Islamic scholars are agreement that homosexualy is patible wh Islamic theology.
GAY MARRIAGE: ISLAMIC VIEW
"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. "There are many of who, whilst believg that the act of homosexualy is forbidn, unrstand that we nnot judge someone and that the issue of relign is separate om the civil laws that should be passed to ensure equaly before the law, " she said.
"'Many gay Mlims live fear'Mr Ali said he is aware that his views are the mory the Mlim muny, and that a lot of LGBTI Mlims stggle to fd a place their muny of live fear, he said, and have to "endure vlence om their fai".
CAN A MLIM BE GAY?
Atralia's first — and only — openly gay imam, Melbourne's Nur Warsame, received ath threats after g out and tablishg an LGBT iendly recently told the ABC: "I want to be known as an pennt Imam who is sympathetic.
IS GAY MARRIAGE PROHIBED? [DUPLITE]
Attendg a gay marriage is punishable acrdg to Sharia law and Mlims mt therefore rea om attendg same-sex culture believ that all ccial elements of pannship and love, marriage is nothg more than lerally a ntract between a man and a woman which the groom provis mahr to the bri return for exclive sexual accs. It is a ntract that mak reproductn and sex legal the ey of God and legimate the ey of the marriage is based on a ntract premised vagal terurse as well as fancial obligatn between a man and a woman, gay upl nnot engage any marriage.