#homosexual muslim

[nakibistan]

Allah Loves Equality - A Voice for LGBTQIA+ Muslims & Minorities

🌈☪️Allah Loves Equality is a revolutionary campaign that was started by a Pakistani Gay Muslim Activist Wajahat Abbas Kazmi The campaign amplified the voices of marginalised womxn including Queer womxn,Pakistani LGBTQ community as well as LGBTQIA+ muslims.Hashtag #AllahLovesEquality has been trending since 2016.The campaign gain both supports & criticisms. Through his campaign,wajahat wanted to spread the message of TRUE Islam,wanted to end hate & bigotry within muslim societies.The message of ''Allah Loves Equality'' was spred across the continents.A documentary film by the same name was directed by Wajahat Abbas Kazmi to documents the lives of queer muslims in Islamic State of Pakistan🇵🇰 It was a very courageous thing that he has done.Like A jihad for Love,Poshida:Pakistan's Hidden LGBT, Allah Loves Equality film abled to show Pakistan's underground queer & sexual minority.

Wajahat Abbas Kazmi campaigning in Pride March of Italy 🇮🇹🇵🇰🏳️‍🌈

Turkish Gay muslim model is holding #AllahLovesEquality

#AllahLoveEquality in Europe's first Muslim LGBTQ+ Pride 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈☪️

A Queer Palestianian holding #AllahLovesEquality in Jerusalem Pride.

Filipino Muslim Filmmaker Rhadem Musawah marching with #AllahLovesEquality 🇵🇭🏳️‍🌈

#gaymuslim #loveislove #queermuslims #intersectionality #lesbianmuslim #homosexual muslim #homoseuxality #trans muslim #intersex muslim #asexual muslim #agender muslim #bisexual muslim #pansexual muslim #lgbtqia+ muslim #lgbtqi muslims #allah loves all #AllahLovesEquality #muslim pride #gender diversity #queer liberation #inclusivity #Humanity for All ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

[lgbtqiamuslimpedia]

A Jihad for Love (2008)

Director - Parvez Sharma

Producer - Sandi Simcha Dubowski

Cinematography - Parvez Sharma, Berke Baş,David W. Leitner

Writer - Javed Haider Zaidi

Cast - Imam Muhsin Hendricks,Arsham Parsi,Maryam,Abdellah,Mazen,Ferda,Qasim,Ahsan,Amir,Mojtaba,Kiymet,Sana,Maha,Pedram Abdi (Payam)

Languages - Arabic,Farsi,Urdu,Bengali, Hindi,English,French,German,English,Turkish,etc

Genre - •LGBTQ •Islam •Documentary

Year of Release - 21 May,2008

Box office - $105,651

Awards - •Best Documentary Award,MIX BRASIL •Best Documentary, Image+Nation Film Festival •Best Documentary,The Tri-Continental Film Festival,India • GLAAD Media Award •Teddy Award,etc

A Jihad for Love (preceded by a short film called In the Name of Allah) is an award-winning international documentary on Homosexuality & Islam.It took total six years to make this groundbreaking documentary.Parvez Sharma took the risk to film this documentary in most dangerous country (like Islamic Republic of Iran,Iraq, Saudi Arabia,Pakistan,Egypt).Homosexuality is a punishable crime in most Muslim World.

The work that Sharma started with this film has become a staple in many books on Islam and at U.S. University libraries.The website Faith in Equality put it at number 9 in a list of LGBT films about faith.IMDb rates the film at 13 on its list of 58 titles under the category of "Best documentaries on religion, spirituality & cults".The film first premiered at the TIFF in 2007, and has been screened to great acclaim at several film festivals around the world.The film went on to win 15 other international awards.

Plot

At starting it shows a glimpse of Islam across the globe.The film first featured Hendrick Muhsin, a South African,Pakistani Gay & Muslim.He is also the first Out Gay Imam of Africa.Filmmaker Parvez got into the deep of Hendicks's personal life struggles,his understanding of Islam & reconciliation of intersecting identities.

Mazen, an Egyptian effeminate muslim was arrested in 2001, in a gay nightclub named Queen Boat.He was beaten,forced to stand trial twice on "debauchery" charges & sentenced to a total of 4 years in prison, where he was raped.He eventually moved to Paris.Mazen also has left his families & friends in Egypt.

Sana is a Black Lesbian refugee, & a victim of FGM.She has a deeper understanding of Islam & told Parvez that Queerness is not against Islam.Sana didn't have any kind of sexual relation with any women.But she had intimate loving relations with women.Like others, she came to France as a refugee.Sana befriend with Maryam & Mazen.

Maryam is Moroccan-born queer womxn who lives in Paris.Her girlfriend Maha lives in Egypt.Both lovers met each other on Bint-al Nas - a meeting site for Arab LBTQ womxn.Maryam still believes that she deserves punishment for her lesbian sexual relationship.Both have survived abusive marriages and can only share their love for each other in private.Maryam & Maha go on a shared journey of search and discovery of female homosexuality.In Al-Azhar, they discover an old bookstore where they find a copy of the Fiqh al-Sunnah(The Laws of the Prophet).In the heart of an ancient mosque in the Citadel,they discover beautiful Islamic calligraphy as they declare their impossible love for each other.

Amir, an Iranian gay shia who has respect for Imam Hosseini.He sacrificed his life for Allah & reconciling his muslim faith.While in Iran, he was persecuted under the charges of illicit sexual conduct,illicit mannerism & received 100 lashes.After being brutally beaten and tortured in the police custody.The judge also threatened Amir that he should be punished by stoning.However he was sentenced to flogging.He told Sharma that Allah helped him to escape this traumatic situation.He fled to Turkey as soon as well.There he met 3 gay refugees - Arsham,Payam,Mojtaba.Mojtaba, another (Persian) gay muslim who ran away from Iran,due to his same sex marriage ceremony in 2005.

Ferda & Kiymet are a happy couple in Turkiye.Kiymet belongs from a conservative family.In her early Kiymet's marriage was fixed with a man.Kiymet's marriage ended up at divorce.Then she found Ferda, her soulmate.Ferda's mom is very supportive & tolerant of sexuality.Ferda is a devout sufi queer muslim, who honors Rumi - a prominent sufi icon for both LGBTQ+ & Straight Muslims.

Ahsan & Qasim are queer platonic friends.Ahsan is a Sunni Muslim & Qasim is a Shia Muslim.Both men, belongs from poor backgrounds do not adopt the western peronae of ‘gay’ and instead rely on vernacular terms.Ahsan & Qasim are part of transvestite,transgender community called Zenana,Kothi in Northern India.Most of these community hide themselves from public.Ahsan,Qasim find a safe space in his community.While Qasim is struggling with his sexuality in heteronormative society.

The filmmaker also documented the diverse tolerance of sexuality in sufi traditions (Pakistan,India & Turkey).

Is it the first film on Islam & Homosexuality?

''A Jihad for Love'' is called world's 1st film on Islam & Homosexuality.A Jihad for Love would be an international feature documentary film rather than world's first film on LGBT muslims.However there are several films that focused on LGBTQ muslim or Queerness in Islam.For Example:

Road to Love (2001)

Act of Faith (2002)

Haremde dört kadin (1965)

Hammam al-Malatily (1973)

Köçek (1975)

Ihtiras Firtinasi (1984)

My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

Marcides (1993)

Istanbul Beneath My Wings (1996)

Hamam (1997)

Lola & Billy the Kid (1999)

Production

Bismillah (In the name of Allah) was considered as an early working title for this documentary.Among muslims,the word Bismillah is very auspicious & used before beginning actions,speech,writing.But the tittle was not considered as the final title of this film due to controversy.

A Jihad for Love is produced by Halal Films, in association with the Sundance Documentary Film Fund,Channel 4 (UK),ZDF (Germany),Arte (France-Germany),Logo (US) & SBS Australia.The director & producer Parvez Sharma & co-producer Sandi Dubowski raised more than a million dollars over a 6 years period to make the film.

In an interview with The NY Times,Parvez Sharma said that he "would shoot touristy footage on the first 15 minutes & the last 15 minutes of a tape", with interviews for documentary in between, to avoid having his footage seized at customs.He compiled 400 hours of footage from a dozen countries ranging from Iraq to Pakistan to the UK.The nature of the work placed him at considerable personal risk.He adopted hardcore guerrilla film-making tactics,pretending to be a tourist in one country,a worker for an AIDS charity in another country.Wherever he went,he asked his queer friends to keep copies of footage and destroy the tapes once he had successfully smuggled the masters out of the country.

During his filmmaking Parvez traveled several countries including Pakistan, Iraq, India, Bangladesh, Egypt, USA, UK, Turkey, France, Saudi Arabia, South Africa,[...].

Interviews

In an interview with NY Times magazine,Parvez Sharma said,"Being gay and Muslim myself,I knew that this film had to be about us all coming out— as Muslims. It's about claiming the Islam that has been denied to us." With a target audience of "faithful Muslims," he undertook a variety of outreach tactics, including leafleting mosques,blanketing MySpace,screening in Astoria for 15 key progressive Muslim leaders.In an interview to Der Spiegel, Sharma explained the significance of the title: "I'm not looking at jihad as battle.I'm looking at the greater jihad in Islam, which is the jihad as the struggle with the self.I also thought it was really compelling to take a word that only has one connotation for most -- to take that, reclaim it and put it in the same phrase as love,which is universal.I really think it explains it very well.

Film Screening

A Jihad for Love first premiered in Toronto International Film Festival(TIFF) in September 2007.At its premier,the director was given a security guard for safety reasons.After this film festival A Jihad for Love got huge applaud internationally.A Jihad for Love film premiered as the opening film of Panorama Documente of the Berlin Film Festival in February 2008.

The film was screened in The Rio Film Festival,Brazil on September 2007,Morelia Film Festival,Mexico, on October 2007,The Sheffield DocFest on November 2007,London Gay & Lesbian Film Festival on March 2008,Melbourne International Film Festival on July 2008,Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival on March 2008,etc.A Jihad for Love's first premier in African continent was The Out in Africa Film Festival in Johannesburg and Cape Town,November 2007. On April,2008 A Jihad for Love film was successfully screened at Istanbul International Film Festival.It was the first time that the film allowed to screen in a muslim-majority country.Film also screened in Q! Film Festival of Indonesia.Although singapore banned the film from festival in 2008 due to its sensitive subject.

Popularity

A Jihad for Love film's sale and broadcast on NDTV, South Asia's largest network in 2008 would have a "remarkable" impact on this LGBTQ cause. "NDTV's broadcast has in effect made the film available to over one billion viewers in India,Bangladesh,Pakistan, & large portions of the Middle East and Africa.The various distributors and their Total Rating Points in European television, the Indian/South-Asian sale with its claimed footprint of 15 billion viewers, the theatrical release & the purportedly large numbers of Netflix viewers made the filmmakers and the TRP experts arrive at a number of 8 million total viewers calculated over a period of four years for this documentary.

International Muslim Dialogue Project

Immediately after the film's theatrical launch around the USA,Parvez & Sandi launched the International Muslim Dialogue Project on 2008.The aim of the project was to organize screenings of the film in Muslim Capitals.Sharma called it the "Underground Network Model" of film distribution.He invented this model sending unmarked DVD's of the film with friends & colleagues to Muslim capitals across the world with full permission to sell pirated copies.Some of the boldest were Beirut,Cairo,Karachi,eight cities in Indonesia & Kuala Lumpur

The film was screened privately screened in Iran,Palestine,Bangladesh and Somalia.

#gay muslim #lgbtq muslim #homosexuality in islam #homosexual muslim #muslim gay #lesbianmuslim #lesbian muslim #arab #asian #qtpoc #documentary

[yourdailyqueer]

El-Farouk Khaki

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 26 October 1963  

Ethnicity: Indian

Nationality: Tanzanian / Canadian

Occupation: Lawyer, activist

Note: Founded Salaam, the first gay Muslim group in Canada and second in the world

#El Farouk Khaki #qpoc #homosexuality #lgbt #lgbtq #male #gay #1963 #indian #asian #poc #Tanzanian #canadian #lawyer #activist #muslim #first

[nova8byte]

Abdur Rahman ibn Abu Layla, quoting Usayd ibn Hudayr, a man of the Ansar, said that while he was given to jesting and was talking to the people and making them laugh, the Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم poked him under the ribs with a stick. He said: Let me take retaliation. He said: Take retaliation. He said: You are wearing a shirt but I am not. The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم then raised his shirt and the man embraced him and began to kiss his side. Then he said: This is what I wanted, Messenger of Allah!

Sunan Abu Dawood 3: Chapter 198, Hadith 5224 (Source: IslamicFinder.com)

The Prophet Muhammad almost had gay sex in front of his companions... CHECKMATE FATHER!!

#ex muslim #gay #homosexual #islam #I'm definitely going to piss people off #and honestly I'm here for it

[shut-up-rabert]

Average extremist writing the most problematic things ever and ending the 'truth' with Jai Shree Ram really think that expulsion of innocent people and judging of people's characters is something Shree Ram will advocate 🤡

#Bhai tum log pagal ho kya #My guy writes 'jab tak ladkiya aise kapde pehenengi sanskaar nahi aaenge' #'Jab tak desh mein se saare muslims ko bhaga nahi dete desh mein shanti nahi aaegi' #'Desh mein sirf Hindu raaj hoga' #'Is bimaari (homosexuality)ko bhagana hoga' #And then write Jai Shree Ram #Ramayan padhi bhi hai kabhi? #Ram ke hisaab se chalo #Aur Ram ko apni soch ke hisaab se kuchh bhi mat btao #Its not the same as interpreting god when its inherently against what he teaches

[biarritzzz]

I'm watching a tv documentary about the school where Samuel Paty, the French teacher who got beheaded by muslim scum, used to teach.

Teachers are being interviewed. They all sound and seem shaken of course but many still try to somewhat excuse the students (some were DIRECTLY responsible by posting about their teacher online and calling him islamophobic) and I'm just like. Wow. One of your colleagues literally got beheaded and I get this is your job and you are traumatized but enough with the feel-good bullshit.

Or is it just for the cameras? Because there is one female teacher who is clearly on the verge of a mental breakdown (and who can blame her) and if she could say what she actually thinks, we would finally hear something truthful.

Like: yeah it's hopeless.

It's over. The damage is done. These kids are rotten to the core and islam is dangerous and everywhere there are muslims, the same awful shit follows. No amount of education, patience and good will can ever change that.

Wake up. I believe that's what this teacher's devastated face is saying. But she can't say it out loud. Even now. Even after everything.

#If I were a teacher and thankfully I'm not #I would resign #straight up #I would not put my life at risk #Samuel Paty #teachers can no longer discuss homosexuality/gay rights #abortion secularism and freedom of speech in schools with large black and muslim populations #this is 'progress' apparently #teachers are scared #I dated a primary school teacher #French #even she was scared #she told me as much #she told me she was now very careful with her words #I knew why and she knew that I knew why

[radykalny-feminizm]

Ik you're against islam and all their ideologies, but that's not how islam progresses

That's not what our religion teaches us.

Yes we are against lgbt and all the other ideologies, but that doesn't mean we will attack the LGBT community. Not unless they make the first move. If someone from lgbt supports Palestine, instead of beheading them, we would actually rather be happy that someone from lgbt is on our side. Itd make us happy rather than angry.

Idk about hamas and all, but if you look at the peaceful side of islam, that's how theyll react, theyll welcome you with open arms, warmly. Please dont spread hate on our beloved religion that we find peace in. I'd really appreciate if you spread awareness rather than hate. It hurts to see someone say and assume false things about islam

First of all, thanks for speaking respectfully and without hate. It's rare, and I appreciate that. But I can't agree with you.

Homosexuality is not an ideology; it's a sexual orientation people are born with. I'm not convinced that Islam is a peaceful religion. You can't deny that terrorist organisations such as Hamas are based on Islam - its members are loud and proud about it. And Islam condemns homosexuality. That's a fact. Homosexuality is even illegal in some Muslim countries. Punished with death. These laws are not someone's random idea - they're based solely on Islamic teachings.

So I really don't understand how you can say that you would welcome lgbt people warmly if, at the same time, your religion forbids them to be themselves.

#radfem #radical feminism #radfem safe #radblr #radfems do interact #feminism #radfems do touch #ask #homosexuality #hamas #terrorism #islam #muslim #religion

[carlocarrasco]

Homosexual pro-Palestine believer REJECTED at pro-Palestine demonstration.

Watch the video entirely and pay close attention to the details.

#Palestine #Palestinians #LGBTQ #diversity #inclusion #LGBT #homosexuality #terrorists #terrorism #evil #gay #bakla #Islam #IslamoLeft #Muslim #QueersforPalestine #freepalestine #RejectPalestine #homosexual #transgender #Youtube

[totally-halal]

Weak. I would love if yall tagged this homophobe tbh.

#queer #queer pride #islam #lesbianism #lesbians #lesbian #muslim #gay #gay pride #homophobia #homosexual #homosexuality #pride #pride 2023

[selamat-linting]

mecca becoming greener IS a sign of the end of the world, but its because of climate change. its not the fault of some jewish org or a cult of trans people. its because we're still using, burning, and digging for oil and coal! its because the oil barons do everything they could to prevent the world from adapting better source of electricity. its because theyre willing to cause worldwide misery by supplying weapons to incite civil war over profits and domination. its because millionaries, billionares, and trillionares, with their private jets and their unending destruction of the environment to pursue more wealth. its because of planned obsolence in everything their corporations produced, making things break much faster so we all had to buy and buy while the waste products pollute the land and the ocean. yes, even the millionares in the middle east and the darling royal family in saudi arabia is complicit too in all of this. theyre not sinless just because the ka'bah is next door.

look, im not religious, but im pretty sure we dont have a christian god that demands absolute obedience for no reason. the cause of our downfall would be something that logically makes sense, our own mistakes, instead of a rule arbitrarily made for us to obey god or outsiders invading and destroying our lives. now stop enabling the bourgeisie and the landlords with your passive support of the status quo and fight. this is the jihad you've been waiting for.

#i wish this is me making up a guy to get mad at but #i live in a muslim majority country and everytime we are hit hardest by climate change #some chucklefucks talk about how this is a sign of the end of the world and call for exterminating the sino-judeo-bolshevik homosexuals #the 30th september tragedy has done irreparable damage to the brains of your average indonesians #yes i blame the west for this #posts that will get me doxxed #politics

[immahabur]

A video of a French gay 'imam' went viral after he made claims that the Qurʾān does not prohibit homosexuality, however this is proven to be false, as the Qurʾān mentions, on more than one occasion, about men lusting after other men is a transgression. While Islam prohibits LGBT acts, they are sinful and do not take a person out of the fold of Islam [providing the person(s) know the act is sinful], however if a person makes claim that these acts are permissible, then they are transgressing the laws of Islam, and are not deemed Muslim. The Prophet Lūt made the duʿāʾ: رَبِّ ٱنصُرْنِى عَلَى ٱلْقَوْمِ ٱلْمُفْسِدِينَ My Lord! Help me against the people of corruption [Rabbi unṣurnī ʿalā l-qawmil muf’sidīn] [Sūrah al-ʿAnkabūt, Verse 30] Credit: @islamify #islam #muslim #beingmuslim #quran #lgbt #homosexuality #prohibition #transgression #sin #tawbah #tawakkullah (at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjbIuG1rpIL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#islam #muslim #beingmuslim #quran #lgbt #homosexuality #prohibition #transgression #sin #tawbah #tawakkullah

[lgbtqiamuslimpedia]

Parvez Sharma

DOB :8 July 1976

Occupation :Journalist,Filmmaker,Writer,Activist

Gender :Male

Sexuality :Gay

Ethnicity :Indian 🇮🇳

Spouce :N/A

Awards :Best Film,Mix Brasil 2008,Best Film,Image +Nation,Montreal 2008,Monette Horowitz Award,Cinereach Award,Arts PAC—Artists for Freedom Of Expression,Arcus Foundation Award,The Hartley Film Award,Andy Warhol Foundation for The Visual Arts 2006,GLAAD Media Award,Stonewall Community Fund,etc

Parvez Sharma (also known as Parvez Hussein Sharma) is an Indian-born American journalist,writer,filmmaker & activist.Parvez Sharma's writings have appeared on The Huffington Post,The Daily Beast and The Guardian.He is a recipient of the 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship in the film/video category.Parvez Sharma is best known for his films In the name of Allah (short), A Jihad for Love, A Sinner in Mecca, & his 2017 book A Sinner in Mecca:A Gay Muslim's Hajj of Defiance.He received the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary amongst several other international awards for A Jihad for Love.For his 2 controversial documentary films & activism, Parvez faced alot of criticism from Muslim world.After the release of A Jihad for Love, Sharma was labeled as Apostate by Muslim Judicial Council of South Africa.

Early Life:

Parvez Sharma was born on 8 July 1975 in a small town of New Delhi & grew up in various cities all over India.His high school was a Catholic School called St Mary's Academy where all students had to recite the Pater Noster during morning assembly.At the age 12,he had (inappropriately) speed-read his mother’s copy of “Gone with the Wind” & even gotten his hands on Christopher Isherwood’s “Berlin Diaries.By 13 he was precociously photographing everything with a pretty basic Vivitar camera which was gifted by his American cousin.

He recieved his bachelor degree in English literature from Presidency College of the University of Calcutta.He received his master's degrees in Mass Communication (Film and Television) from Jamia Millia Islamia University,Broadcast Journalism from the University of Wales,Cardiff & Video from American University's School of Communication.He moved to the United States in 2000 as a student at Columbia University's Film School, but was unable to continue a second semester due to lack of funds and moved to American University where he was given scholarships.

Career:

Parvez Sharma worked as a journalist for India's 24-hour news television network NDTV.He also worked on programming for BBC World Television(India), the Discovery Channel(United States), & the World Bank (United States).Parvez Sharma worked in several radio,print, and broadcast.

In the nineties, Sharma was a print journalist for several prominent Indian newspapers including The Telegraph,The Statesman,The Economic Times,The Business Standard, & India Currents Magazine.While at the Statesman he reported on what was the first ever detailing of the lesbian experience within India for a national newspaper - Emerging from the Shadows (July 3, 1994)– which became a rallying point for lesbians around the country and was crucial in the formation of many lesbian organizations.

Sharma was instrumental in setting up the first organized LGBT effort in the eastern state of West Bengal,setting benchmarks for many other LGBT organizing efforts around the subcontinent.

In his short film, In the name of Allah , Parvez interviewed American,British & South Asian Gay & Lesbian Muslims.A Jihad for Love film was preceded by this short film.Parvez Sharma came up with the idea after listening to the stories of gay muslims, when he attended American University.He decided to give a voice "to a community that really needed to be heard, and that until now hadn't been.Parvez Sharma and his film's co-producer Sandi Dubowski raised more than a million dollars over a 6 year period to make this daring film.Parvez conducted interviews of many LGBTQ muslims from different backgrounds.He met these people through the Internet.The film was filmed in 12 different countries and in nine languages.Sharma compiled 400 hours of footage of interviews throughout North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, & the Middle East.Countries included Iran,Iraq,Saudi Arabia,Egypt,Bangladesh,Pakistan,Turkey,France,India,South Africa,USA & UK.

In just its opening week during a limited release of 33 cities, A Jihad for Love, for example, ran for four weeks at New York's IFC theaters.The film grossed $22,287, out of which, $10,519 was just in New York.The Domestic Total Gross for the film is $105,659.A Jihad for Love was theatrically released in 33 cities,while A Sinner in Mecca was only released in four cities, for a week each.Its box office numbers were low, except in New York where it had a higher box office return of $11,220.The film also premiered in 2007 at the Toronto International Film Festival & in 2008 at the Berlinale.It went on to premier at more than a hundred film festivals globally and was released in theaters in the US and Canada in 2008 by First Run Features and Mongrel Media.A Jihad for Love was broadcast in India and other countries by India's NDTV.It was shown in two parts over the Aug 1-2 and Aug 8-9 weekends.Further A Jihad for Love was banned from screening in the Singapore International Film Festival, 2008.The film was also banned in several muslim-majority countries.By 2011, Sharma conducted live events and screenings of A Jihad for Love in many Muslim nations and capitals ranging from Beirut,Lebanon and Istanbul, Turkey, to Bishkek,Kyrgyzstan and Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia.In Indonesia, the film did an 8-city tour to acclaim.

In 2007 he wrote a chapter for the book Gay Travels in the Muslim World. In 2009 Parvez Sharma wrote the foreword for the anthology Islam and Homosexuality.

In 2009, Sharma was named as one of "50 Visionaries changing your world" in a list headed by the Dalai Lama.The OUT Magazine named Parvez Sharma one of the OUT 100 twice for 2008 and 2015- "one of the 100 gay men and women who have helped shape our culture during the year".On 29 May 2013 Sharma was honored as an "LGBT hero" by first-lady Michelle Obama at a DNC fundraiser in New York.

Activism:

Parvez has spoken internationally on distinguished film/media panels and panels on Muslim & South asian LGBTQ+ issues,human rights violations across the world and the crisis in 21st century Islam.

#gay muslim #gaymuslim #gay indian #homosexual muslim #india #loveislove #queer bio

[saxotaz]

https://fb.watch/oho2DVKJS4/

#homosexuality #musluman #injustice #humanrights #muslim #respect #saxotaz #france

[maykitz]

the "you can't identify into oppression" sound bite might be one of the biggest headscratchers out there because for one thing yes you can, and for another you oftentimes don't even need to do any identifying. for someone who converts to judaism for their spouse it doesn't exactly matter whether they personally actually identify as 'a jew' if their synagogue gets a bomb threat to terrorise them. Balbir Singh Sodhi was a victim of an anti-arab and anti-muslim hate crime regardless of the fact that he was neither arab nor muslim but an indian sikh. if a country criminalises same-sex relations a straight male prostitute accepting male clients because there's more money in it will be no less at a severe risk for lacking internal homosexual orientation. all that which is generally subsumed under "oppression" absolutely does not 1:1 correspond to whether or not its targets internally match a specific criterion and to insist otherwise is strikingly stupid. whether a demographic can be considered "oppressed" is if anything to be determined by observing their situation in reality, not by making spiritual arguments along the lines of "they have X-intrinsic essence, therefore Y-effect must inherently be drawn to them; or they don't have X-internal quality, therefore i have logically determined Y-effect can't possibly follow."

[cryptotheism]

I need a third opinion because me and a friend are arguing over this Is Baphomet a demon or something else entirely?

"Baphomet" is the demon that the church accused the Knights Templar of worshipping. (There is no evidence of them ever worshiping demons.)

The name likely comes from "Baphemez" a medieval French mis-transliteration of "Mohamed." The templars spent much of their time guarding pilgrimage routes in the Levant, and thus over time many had an occasionally friendly relationship with the local Muslim population.

The idea being that to a medieval Christian, if you're worshiping something that isn't the Christian god, you're worshiping a demon.

Meaning that over time: "friendly with the local Muslims" became "they're secretly Muslim" but that wasn't scandalous enough so it became "they're literally homosexual devil worshipers."

In reality, the Templars were challenging the Catholic churches wealth and military strength. So they had to go.

[radykalny-feminizm]

Muslims, Jews and Christians all have the same god btw, same base book too. An Orthodox Jew will shame gay people as fast as the other two will.

“The book of Vayikra is traditionally regarded as classifying sexual intercourse between males as a to'eivah (something abhorred or detested) that can be subject to capital punishment by the current Sanhedrin under halakha (Jewish law)”

Most of the religions are homophobic, but there is only one religion in the name of which homosexuality is punished with death nowadays. And guess what, it isn't Judaism.

#muslims might kill you for being gay but Jewish people might be MEAN to you because of it actually 🤓 #so they're exactly the same #🤡 #ask #religion #judaism #islam #homosexuality