Gay Mlim stggle vs agenda
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I'M GAY AND MLIM. I SAW MYSELF THE QURAN
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,... * i am gay and muslim *
Lamya H., a gay Mlim, said she saw what she felt was a pictn of her feelgs the Quran while studyg as a schoolgirl. 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. In most Mlim untri, homosexualy is illegal and some untri, cludg Iran and Sdi Arabia, is punishable by ath.
But others, such as Jordan and Turkey, homosexualy is not nsired a crime. Most Islamic scholars are agreement that homosexualy is patible wh Islamic theology.
GAY AND MLIM?
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.