🏳🌈A Muslim gay dissident gotten many oppressive messages, including demise dangers, subsequent to posting an image of himself and a kindred campaigner seeming to kiss while holding a Moroccan banner at the yearly pride march in Milan, Italy, on Saturday.
Wajahat Abbas Kazmi, the 32-year-old lobbyist and movie producer, has been living in Italy for as long as 17 years and is the prime supporter of the LGBT+ rights association Il Grande Colibrì. He began the "Allah Loves Equality" crusade in 2015 to feature homophobia in Muslim-greater part nations and has since been walking gladly holding the rainbow flag with the battle's name composed crosswise over it.
"In three years I haven't had any demise dangers," Kazmi told PinkNews. He imagined that the presentation of the Moroccan banner is the thing that fanned homophobic blazes. "The greater part of individuals who composed abuse and dangers were of Moroccan birthplaces or from the Arab world, [and took issues] particularly with the banner as opposed to the "Allah Loves Equality" crusade," he said.
Kazmi said he got around 40 harsh messages in a few dialects, including French, Arabic and English, over a few days via web-based networking media stages where he had shared the photograph. The vast majority of the messages were sent by mysterious individuals or individuals utilizing counterfeit names, which made the way toward detailing the maltreatment harder.
"You foul up Islam and my nation Morocco [… ] I wish you passing and it will arrive rapidly, you will be attacked on the grounds that somebody known from France has distributed your photograph. Try not to blend your unnatural with Islam," perused one of the messages got through Instagram, which Kazmi caught in a screen capture and sent to PinkNews. The sender's Instagram account is as yet dynamic.
"I am working with our legal advisors to report them to the police when our records are prepared," Kazmi said. "We regardless need to report them to state that we are upheld, we aren't the only one," he included.
A speedy take a gander at the "Allah Loves Equality" Facebook page demonstrates that the subject of Kazmi's crusading is a long way from uncontroversial in Italy as well, as regardless of the numerous messages of help, a portion of the presents written in Italian on "audit" the page reflect Islamophobic sees.
In any case, the lobbyist said he was struck by what number of the harsh messages he got about the image originated from second-age Muslims. "I thought the second-age Muslims in Europe would be more open and mainstream, yet I have questions about it—despite the fact that I have a great deal of Muslim companions who have bolstered our crusade," he said.
"It's extremely miserable to see their numbness on Islamic issues," Kazmi proceeded. "These individuals never examined Islam and they don't comprehend what Islam says in regards to it. On account of a wrong interpretation and translation they think the Quran censures homosexuality as a destructive sin, yet that isn't the situation. It harms," he included.
Kazmi trusts that Islamophobic and homophobic biases can be tested through exchange and by being aware of the diverse circumstances of LGBT+ rights reflected over the Muslim world—"Not all nations are as terrible as Iran or Saudi Arabia," he stated, featuring his positive involvement in Pakistan.
Be that as it may, as more work stays to be done, Kazmi said he and his kindred activists will keep up their battle. "One year from now we'll bring the banners of every Muslim country to be the voice of the LGBT+ individuals who endure in those nations," he guaranteed.
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