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.
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'
* 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.
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CAN A MLIM ATTEND A GAY WEDDG?
The official fictn, Brian Whaker explas, is that gay people don’t exist the Middle East. They do – and for many of them, attus of fay and society are a bigger problem than fear of beg persecuted * 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. 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.
" "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.
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 *
"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". 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.
EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
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. It is also forbidn for any Mlim believer to be volve by attendg or takg part such a marriage foc on the actns of the Sharia meang that the clatns or the sir of havg or attendg a gay weddg have no legal substance and is nsired haram.
Mlim scholars set the punishment for anal sex between men as anywhere om relatively light one at the judge’s discretn bee sodomy do not lead to illegimate on the fact that marriage is viewed as a legal ntract for sexual terurse, where procreatn is not necsarily sential, would seem that Islam uld allow for gay marriage. However, bee same sex sexual acts has been addrsed by the past jurists the ntext of ubnah as well as perasty, wnsg or havg a legal ntract for gay upl have never been vtigated Islamic today’s work, neo-tradnalist Mlims believers, who wish to superimpose classil jurist opns, are takg a nmnatory posn om classil juristic manuals and are utilizg them to reject gay uple weddgs and no Mlim should take part such celebratns. Such classil opns have been ocsnally been prented the form of juristic l and legal maxims, one of which is applied to wnsg marriage and by extensn or analogy to gay uple tradnalists refer to verse 23:5-7 as well as the juristic le, al-aṣl fī al-ʾabḍāʿ al-taḥrīm referrg to the flt stat of accsg female punda is prohibn, is seemgly rived om this verse, to prohib gay marriage.
GAY MARRIAGE: ISLAMIC VIEW
Moreover, the le, which was unrstood the past as the prohibn of accsg of a woman’s private part unls through permted path of ncubage or marriage nnot be applied to takg part a marriage that will allow sexual activy between the nf of legal ntract which will clu gay ’s juristic pns that prohib gay sex and wnsg of a gay marriage are based on ijtihād, or a rived posn, and the le on which this prohibn li n be ntted on the basis of at least five reasons as attemptg to attend such a unn, any Mlim believer always nsir his or her fay beliefs.
His iends mataed that they disputed such acts the book of God therefore suggtg that they did not nsir the unrstandg of women as pletely opns are sometim nsired absurd, pecially by dividuals who fd gay uple sexual acts disturbg. Likewise through exclive analysis of the vers the act of wnsg a gay uple unn is emed unsirable and Permissibily of Legal Contracts on Social TransactnsThe juristic le on marriage is not one of prohibn but one of permissibily, bee the Holy book refers to marriage as a firm venant and acrdg to numero scholars like the Ḥanbalī jurists, there exists no law that prohibs ntracts. There prohibn of legal ntract of gay upl n be substantiated on the basis of verse 4:19, which teach that the ntract is based on creatg bdg rponsibili and rights that are allowed the ey of God.
CAN A MLIM BE GAY?
A valid ntract is ually supported on the basis of observatn that acrdg to many jurists, wnsg a valid marriage between two believers is centered eedom of nsent and rivg the prohibn of the wnsg of gay marriage on the basis of verse 23:5-7 as mentned above, such posns ually are based on immoraly of gay marriag sexual scribed above, the Quran nmns the people of Lut. Not only do the above claratn apply to the people the story but to all the absence of mutawātir or saḥīḥ texts, any prohibn on any activy that endors gay marriag is rived through analogil ductn and alleged ijmāʿ.
Although the above stand n be emed nsirate nsirg today’s rearchg the juristic le a search for an exprs text that allows the wnsg of gay marriag has been problematic bee jurist the past were predomantly agast such acts.
IS GAY MARRIAGE PROHIBED? [DUPLITE]
Therefore, the juristic le that strictly lims marriage between men and women and prohibg Gay marriage not maʾlum m al d bil ncln, the issue of attendg a gay marriage Ameri is a tough one for all Mlims. Importance of relign one's life among Mlims who strongly favor or favor gay marriage% of Mlims who strongly favor or favor gay marriage who say relign is….