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Affirming mosques help male lover Muslims reconcile faith, sexuality
Imam El-Farouk Khaki co-founded Toronto's first LGBTQ-friendly mosque, Oneness Mosque, 10 years ago to grant lesbian, gay, attracted to both genders, transgender and homosexual Muslims to be present at prayers without having to hide their sexual orientation or gender identity for fear of discrimination.
“I wanted a Muslim space that welcomed all humans and celebrated human diversity, including gender and sexual diversity,” Khaki told NBC News. “I used to get angry going to the mosque, because I would often have to listen to irrelevant or ignorant sermons. When I proceed to Unity Mosque, I am happy.”
With no dress code for women, no gender segregation and women regularly foremost Friday prayers, Togetherness Mosque’s progressive approach is a far cry from how many mainstream mosques operate.
“We welcome all peoples, of all genders, sexualities, gender expressions, abilities and faiths,” Khaki stressed.
While Khaki said Cohesion Mosque was one of the only explicitly LGBTQ-inclusive spaces he had heard of when it opened in 2009, he noted things are starting to change.
“More and more groups, communities and mosques that observe and embrace inclusion and divers
When It Comes to LGBTQ Acceptance, Muslims Are More “Assimilated” Into American Society Than White Evangelicals
One of the most memorable motifs is the presidency of Donald Trump is the notion that Muslims are somehow incapable of assimilating into American culture. “Assimilation has been very hard,” Trump told Sean Hannity last summer, in response to a question about how to vet Muslim immigrantsto determine if they want to proselytize and import theocracy. “I won’t say nonexistent, but it gets to be adorable close. And I’m talking about second and third generation. For some reason, there’s no real assimilation.”
On at least one issue, however, recent surveys propose Trump’s fears about assimilation are directed at the wrong group. According to a poll of American Muslims conducted this year by Pew, more than half (52 percent) state “homosexuality should be recognized by society.” In a wider survey on the same question last year, 63 percent of the general population said the same—compared to just over a third of colorless evangelicals. On the ask of LGBTQ acceptance, in other words, American Muslims look much more fond of “mainstream” America than pale evangelicals do.
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U.S. Muslims More Accepting of Homosexuality Than White Evangelicals
A recent survey by the Pew Research Center create a sizable shift in the views of American Muslims when it comes to homosexuality and establish them to be more accepting of it than white evangelicals.
In a survey conducted between January and May, 52 percent of U.S. Muslims said homosexuality should be accepted by society — an multiply of 25 percentage since 2007. Comparatively, only 34 percent of white evangelical Protestants said they believed homosexuality should be standard, the smallest percentage of any group surveyed.
Within the U.S. Muslim community, women and college graduates had the highest acceptance rate of homosexuality (both 63 percent), followed by less religious Muslims (62 percent) and millennials (60 percent).
While results found that acceptance of homosexuality in the U.S. Muslim community corresponds with wider acceptance in the U.S. general universal, there remained generational differences in acceptance within both populations. Researchers found younger U.S. Muslims are more accepting of homosexuality than their older counterparts. Within the U.S. Muslim collective, 60 percent of millennials s
Muslims opposed to LGBTQ curricula for their kids aren’t bigots
We are witnessing a unique and welcome phenomenon: Muslims in the West are at the forefront of a social movement that transcends any one faith or ethnicity. For those following the news, protests led by parents contain erupted across the United States and Canada against university boards that desire to teach schoolchildren content about the acceptability of LGBTQ lifestyles.
While parents of all ethnicities and religions are emotionally attached, Muslim parents acquire been playing a central role in all of these cases, both as organisers and protesters, and their highly visible presence is creating waves on social media.
It is understandable for parents to be concerned. In Maryland, for example, a academy district has approved books that debate homosexuality and transgenderism as normal realities for children as young as three years old. This is state-sponsored ideological indoctrination of toddlers who can barely form complete sentences, much less ponder critically.
Parents have a God-given duty and legal right to provide moral guide and guidance to their children. This includes the right of parents and their children to reject i
Opposition to same-sex marriage has decreased across a broad swath of religious groups in the United States, with white evangelical Christians one of the scant movements for which a majority remains in contradiction. Three years on from the Supreme Court decision that same-sex couples should be allowed to bond, the findings from the Public Religion Research Institute's 2017 American Values Atlas, published Tuesday, showed growing support for LGBT rights, including a majority of U.S. Muslims backing gay marriage for the first time.
Muslims, by a margin of 51 percent to 34 percent, favor gay marriage, compared to just four years ago when a majority, 51 percent, were opposed. There were similar results for jet Protestants, with 54 percent opposing gay marriage in PRRI's 2014 American Ethics Atlas, compared with 43 percent in the latest findings.
Indeed, opposition to gay marriage is now limited almost entirely to alabaster conservative Christians. Fifty-eight percent of white evangelical Christians and 53 percent of Mormons—an overwhelming majority of whom are white—are opposed to allowing gay couples to marry. The collective with the most disagreement, though, is Jeh