In a survey of Amerin Mlims, 0% intified as lbian or gay. Here's the story behd that statistic | CNN

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• IN A SURVEY OF AMERIN MLIMS, 0% INTIFIED AS LBIAN OR GAY. HERE’S THE STORY BEHD THAT STATISTIC
• I'M GAY AND MLIM. I SAW MYSELF THE QURAN
• AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• MAN WHO SAYS HE WAS OMAR MATEEN'S GAY LOVER SPEAKS OUT
• GAY/BI DATG APP, MLIM PRAYER APPS SOLD DATA ON PEOPLE’S LOTN TO A CONTROVERSIAL DATA BROKER
• WHAT DO THE KORAN SAY ABOUT BEG GAY?
• BT GAY DATG APPS FOR HOOKUPS, RELATNSHIPS, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

IN A SURVEY OF AMERIN MLIMS, 0% INTIFIED AS LBIAN OR GAY. HERE’S THE STORY BEHD THAT STATISTIC

Imam Daiyiee Abdullah, 65, is one of the few openly gay Mlim clerics.

The percentage of Amerin Mlims who said society should accept homosexualy has doubled the last , to 52%, and is even higher among Millennials.

Ani Zonneveld says she receiv lls regularly om young gay and lbian Mlims who have been threatened by their fay or are aaid to reveal their sexual inty. Acrdg to a recent survey of more than 800 Amerin Mlims, 0% intified as gay or lbian. That diversy also appli to attus towards gay, lbian and transgenr people.

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

Mlims disagree on how to terpret the Pew survey that showed an creasg acceptance of homosexualy. Now, Qadhi often prefac his remarks about homosexualy by notg that “feelgs and clatns” are not themselv sful, and that homosexual acts should not be sgled out for special nmnatn.

Mogahed herself me unr attack several years ago after a Gallup survey showed that no Brish Mlims – as , 0% – said homosexualy was morally acceptable.

Right wg provotrs such as Milo Yiannopoulos seized on the survey to portray Mlims as a threat to gays and lbians. “Sometim people make rogatory remarks, like: There’s that gay imam, ” Abdullah said. Some closeted LGBT Mlims feared of beg associated wh “the gay mosque, ” he said.

AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY

Of the 804 Amerin Mlims polled, not one intified as gay or lbian. If 92% of Amerin Mlims intified as straight, she said, then the remag 8% may be lbian or gay, even if they’re reluctant say so. Lamya H., a gay Mlim, said she saw what she felt was a pictn of her feelgs the Quran while studyg as a schoolgirl.

islam has also ed my chanc wh guys as a gay man!!!!

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

I(19M) jt met another gay man(21M) through a datg app (we’re both Paltians occupied palte) He’s very handsome and is a stunt at a very good universy and we seemed to be very patible, until he found out i left islam He started askg me why i did and I happily answered his qutns. Turns out he believ that we should force the rapist to marry the victim, and that marryg a 6 years old NOWADAYS is ok, and that beg gay is wrong and started tellg me about lut’s borg story.

Imam El-Faro Khaki -found Toronto's first LGBTQ-iendly mosque, Uny Mosque, 10 years ago to allow lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer Mlims to attend prayers whout havg to hi their sexual orientatn or genr inty for fear of discrimatn. INTERPRETATIONGay Mlim scholar Stt Siraj al-Haqq Kugle has spent two s rearchg LGBTQ issu the Islamic fah and said many people are surprised to disver that Islam is not herently nmng of LGBTQ people.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

“In the Quran, there is no word that explicly scrib homosexual or transgenr persons; the Arabic terms were vented after the Quran’s revelatn, by medieval jurists and ntemporary journalists, doctors and social crics. FINDING ‘A MIDDLE GROUND’Tugay Sarac was 13 when his father died eight years ago.

MAN WHO SAYS HE WAS OMAR MATEEN'S GAY LOVER SPEAKS OUT

“I thought I n't be Mlim and gay at the same time, ” he said. “This went on for a few years until I went to the Ibn Rhd-Goethe Mosque, where I realized that is actually possible to be Mlim and gay. ”Tugay Sarac is the LGBTQ ordator of Ibn Rhd-Goethe Mosque, the only self-scribed liberal mosque Germany.

Courty of Tugay SaracIbn Rhd-Goethe Mosque is the only self-scribed liberal mosque Germany. “I know that many gay Mlims turn to radil ias bee they want to cure themselv om homosexualy, ” Sarac explaed.

GAY/BI DATG APP, MLIM PRAYER APPS SOLD DATA ON PEOPLE’S LOTN TO A CONTROVERSIAL DATA BROKER

“Mosqu like Ibn Rhd-Goethe n give people a place to be gay and Mlim.

Acrdg to a 2017 Pew Rearch Center survey of Amerin Mlims, a majory (52 percent) believe society should accept homosexualy, pared wh jt 27 percent 2007. K., however, Mlims are ls acceptg of homosexualy.

WHAT DO THE KORAN SAY ABOUT BEG GAY?

A 2016 ICM Unlimed survey found only 18 percent of Brish Mlims agreed that homosexualy should be legal Bra. ‘INCLUSIVE AND RELEVANT’Like Kugle, Imam Daayiee Abdullah, one of the first openly gay imams the U.

S., believ the prevalent view of homosexualy as a s current Islamic teachg is rooted tradn, rather than scripture. “Many tradns are locked to a particular time, place and culture — they're not necsarily appropriate for today or for people who will be worshippg 50 years om now, ” Abdullah Daayiee Abdullah, founr of the Mec Instute, is one of the first openly gay Imams the U.

Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.

BT GAY DATG APPS FOR HOOKUPS, RELATNSHIPS, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN

There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage". Recently I’ve been disverg myself and I n now say that I’m gay which were words that I didn’t thk I uld ever say.

E: I lerally knew nobody else that, you know, intified as such - plenty of Christians, even some Jewish dividuals, but not Other relig muni are havg the same ternal stggl about cln and homophobia. A survey by Pew Rearch Center asked people whether, quote, "homosexualy should be accepted by society.