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Meet the gay imam changing attitudes from within

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
Both fanatics and those who hate Islam use extreme, typically literal interpretations from a certain perspective. This imam illustrates that there are other viewpoints and interpretations.

Meet the gay imam changing attitudes from within

An Islamic scholar who broke taboos when he came out is empowering gay Muslims around the world. Hate he was prepared for, but the deluge of support has caught him quite by surprise
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As an Islamic scholar with a degree from the University of Islamic Studies in Pakistan, Muhsin believes that homophobia is incompatible with the Qur’an’s depiction of a “merciful and compassionate” God, and that it has been embedded in the culture by centuries of patriarchal interpretation.
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The mood, he believes, is shifting. “We are definitely making progress. Queer Muslims are coming out much younger and parents are supporting them.”
 

Aštra’el

Aštara, Blade of Aštoreth
Islam is an incredible religion as it is. I would not see it on its knees prostrating before wokeness and inclusivity… but to Allah and it’s core tenets, which makes Islam what it is. I respect the various Muslim Weltanschauung I’ve come to know from its adherents… up until this.

I feel the same way about many religions.
 

Brickjectivity

Turned to Stone. Now I stretch daily.
Staff member
Premium Member
I don't think this is about wokeness. Woke means shutting down conversation or not letting other people express themselves or make their own decisions. This is just about tolerating people who aren't typical.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
Islam is an incredible religion as it is. I would not see it on its knees prostrating before wokeness and inclusivity… but to Allah and it’s core tenets, which makes Islam what it is. I respect the various Muslim Weltanschauung I’ve come to know from its adherents… up until this.

I feel the same way about many religions.
Yeah, part of the Weltanschauung includes Middle Eastern Muslims fleeing to the West in fear of their life.
Islam seriously needs to chill out like Christianity mostly has. They too used to have a problem with widespread and extreme intolerance and violence towards those who are different, including different denominations of the same religion (just as how today Muslims are the worst enemy and greatest threat to other Muslims).
 

Evangelicalhumanist

"Truth" isn't a thing...
Premium Member
Both fanatics and those who hate Islam use extreme, typically literal interpretations from a certain perspective. This imam illustrates that there are other viewpoints and interpretations.

Meet the gay imam changing attitudes from within

An Islamic scholar who broke taboos when he came out is empowering gay Muslims around the world. Hate he was prepared for, but the deluge of support has caught him quite by surprise
...
As an Islamic scholar with a degree from the University of Islamic Studies in Pakistan, Muhsin believes that homophobia is incompatible with the Qur’an’s depiction of a “merciful and compassionate” God, and that it has been embedded in the culture by centuries of patriarchal interpretation.
...
The mood, he believes, is shifting. “We are definitely making progress. Queer Muslims are coming out much younger and parents are supporting them.”
I live in Toronto, in Canada. It's a very multicultural place. I know quite a few gay Muslims -- and also gay Christians, and Hindus, and Baha'is, Jews, agnostics, atheists. I know gay blacks, and Hispanics, and Asians.

For some bizarre reason, nature doesn't seem to give a rat's *** about your religion, your race, your culture, your language, your height or anything else when she decides that you will be gay. Or straight (nature's huge preference, I admit), for that matter.

I wish this were not in a Religious Topics forum, or I could ask why are we so stupid to be offended by what nature does not.
 

Heyo

Veteran Member
Both fanatics and those who hate Islam use extreme, typically literal interpretations from a certain perspective. This imam illustrates that there are other viewpoints and interpretations.

Meet the gay imam changing attitudes from within

An Islamic scholar who broke taboos when he came out is empowering gay Muslims around the world. Hate he was prepared for, but the deluge of support has caught him quite by surprise
...
As an Islamic scholar with a degree from the University of Islamic Studies in Pakistan, Muhsin believes that homophobia is incompatible with the Qur’an’s depiction of a “merciful and compassionate” God, and that it has been embedded in the culture by centuries of patriarchal interpretation.
...
The mood, he believes, is shifting. “We are definitely making progress. Queer Muslims are coming out much younger and parents are supporting them.”
That's fast progress. Only a few years after having female Imams, there are Muslims who are now tolerant of gays. It's only a small minority but it seems Islam is absorbing western Enlightenment fast.
 

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
Islam is an incredible religion as it is. I would not see it on its knees prostrating before wokeness and inclusivity… but to Allah and it’s core tenets, which makes Islam what it is. I respect the various Muslim Weltanschauung I’ve come to know from its adherents… up until this.

I feel the same way about many religions.
So being born gay is woke to you. Then WOKE IS GOOD. WOKE IS WONDERFUL. THE ENTIRE WORLD WILL BE WOKE.
 

Aštra’el

Aštara, Blade of Aštoreth
Religions have standards. Religion requires sacrifice. If you do not meet those standards, or are not willing to make that sacrifice… why do you feel they must accept you?
 

Evangelicalhumanist

"Truth" isn't a thing...
Premium Member
Religions have standards. Religion requires sacrifice. If you do not meet those standards, or are not willing to make that sacrifice… why do you feel they must accept you?
Hah! What do "standards" have to do with anything? Religion should be about doing what God wants, not what the religious want.
 
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