We all know that’s in the majority of the Muslim countries being gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender can be a crime and that’s because the Quran said that homosexuality is a grave sin so no good Muslim can be gay !!!
But today we came with an openly gay imam and remember there are a tiny number of them! Daayiee Abdullah is a Washington, D.C lawyer who studied Islam in the Middle East, says that mainstream Islamic teaching on gays must change.
“It has to or it will die from its harshness or rigidity,” Abdullah said. “The way it is presently understood, it rots the heart and decays the brain.” From a gay person that lives in the middle east I can say that we live discrimination, hate and at the end jail!!, that’s because we are different we love the same sex what is the most important in that that I have to go to jail for.
We all know that these countries are Muslim, they have there owned traditions and they believe in a religion that says that being gay is a sin but for me that’s so hypocritical because there are soo many other sins that the majority don’t speak about like drinking alcohol did you forgot that our countries drink more than the European countries …
If I can give an advice that our countries need so badly is that every person or citizen mind his own business and stop watching others if every person watches his own problems and try to develop his self and personality we gonna see a major change in our community believe me.
I often heard Muslims invoke the story of Lut in the Quran (comparable to the story of Lot in the Bible) to argue that Islam condemns men who love men. Like many other gays Muslims, I read the same verses and comes to a different conclusion: that the story condemns cruelty, not any particular sexual act.
In the Quran, I find nothing to condemn my sexual orientation. The word “homosexuality” is not used in the text.
Pointing to the Quran or any religion’s sacred writings to explain current day moral stances also makes little sense, said Aisha Geissinger, who teaches about Islam at Ottawa’s Carleton University.
“Nobody takes all of their sexual morality nowadays from an old text. Christians don’t do it. Muslims don’t do it,” Geissinger said. “Otherwise, we’d have slavery.” she offers an example from history that counters the idea that Muslim societies are monolithic and have always been hostile to same-sex desires.
In “Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800,” author Khaled El-Rouayheb points out that much of the poetry in the Arab world prior to the 19th century was written by men about a male beloved, or a person whose gender is ambiguous.
“It is difficult to imagine that this type of poetry was so popular if it didn’t reflect something about what people were seeing as normative,” Geissinger said.
In the Quran, I find nothing to condemn my sexual orientation. The word “homosexuality” is not used in the text.
Pointing to the Quran or any religion’s sacred writings to explain current day moral stances also makes little sense, said Aisha Geissinger, who teaches about Islam at Ottawa’s Carleton University.
“Nobody takes all of their sexual morality nowadays from an old text. Christians don’t do it. Muslims don’t do it,” Geissinger said. “Otherwise, we’d have slavery.” she offers an example from history that counters the idea that Muslim societies are monolithic and have always been hostile to same-sex desires.
In “Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800,” author Khaled El-Rouayheb points out that much of the poetry in the Arab world prior to the 19th century was written by men about a male beloved, or a person whose gender is ambiguous.
“It is difficult to imagine that this type of poetry was so popular if it didn’t reflect something about what people were seeing as normative,” Geissinger said.
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