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When I hear an imam or islamic lecturer talk about the story of Lot, or about homosexuals, it breaks my heart a little every single time.
A few weeks ago I attended a series of lectures at an islamic school. It was one night, about 5 hours with breaks, but it takes the esteemed position of one of the worst nights in my life. I went in with an open mind, open heart and intended to learn. I’ve always thought that islam in its purest form is one of the most beautiful things on earth, but it is tainted. Tainted by bigots blinded by the dogma which they distort to integrate hate so subtly into our society. Sometimes I wonder if they have any idea what they are doing.
Let us look at a few statistics.
The scientific study “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male” by Indiana University researchers Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, and Clyde E. Martin reported that 37% of males had homosexual experiences, but this figure includes incidental homosexual experience. The study reported 10% of males being more or less exclusively homosexual. Subsequent studies such as “The Janus Report on Sexual Behavior” by researchers Samuel S. Janus and Cynthia L. Janus & “Homosexuality / Heterosexuality” by researchers David P. McWhirter, Stephanie A. Sanders, and June Machover Reinisch reported the exclusively homosexual male population to be 9% & 13.95% respectively, which supports the Indiana University findings of 10%, or 1 in 10
For the sake of simplicity in maths, let us assume that findings suggest that 1 in 10 males are homosexual.
At these lectures there must have been about three or four hundred men, boys and children. This could correlate to around 30 or 40 being homosexuals, if we counted all of them. But I’m not going to talk about adults in denial.
I’m going to talk about the kids.
Some of these children will sit through these lectures being told that having feelings toward another man is an “abomination”. They will feel the hate spewing from the sermon that condemns their very nature and they will be terrified. I know this because it scared the crap out of me when I was younger.
I’ve known that I wasn’t straight since before I can remember. Probably from the age of around 5 or 6. I may not have known the term for my inclination, or what it meant, but I knew something was different. I also sat in the mosque, listening to the imam talking about how homosexuals will be thrown into the fire that feeds on the bones of men like the people of Lot.
Being a child and having the image of burning for eternity just because of who you may fall in love with is not what Islam teaches.
The story of Lot condemns a lot of things. It condemns inhospitality, rape, robbery, humiliation of stranger and the mistreatment of guests among other things. Why then, do modern muslims choose to focus on the “sin” of homosexuality over all these other things, which are daily occurrences in the world. These things are allowed to pass us by. I know muslims that lie, steal, cheat and backbite regularly, but as soon as you mention the word “gay”, they turn up their noses as if to say that they are once again pious in the face of these “abominations” of men.
I am not a “gay muslim”. I am a muslim who just so happens to be gay. This should not define my fitness to practice my religion, and it should not mean that hypocritical muslims with double standards have the right to condemn me.
I love my religion, I just pity some people that follow it. I’ve always been told that Islam is about tolerance and peace and love, and I’m afraid I fail to see it in the modern world. I consider myself a good person. I don’t consider myself the best muslim, but none of us are.
If we are all equal in the eyes of God, why are we not in the eyes of men?
Don’t try and tell me that I chose to be gay. I tell you now that i stayed up late at night, crying to God to cure me, to remove this “ailment” and save me from eternal damnation. I was angry with myself, with my God, with my religion. Not because the religion had taught me I was wrong, but because people had told me I was. People told me that I would burn, that I would be punished for something over which I had no control. It broke me.
Now I realise why i didn’t change, and why I didn’t wake up one morning cured, suddenly into girls.
Maybe there isn’t anything to change.
I am a muslim. I am gay. I am proud of both things, and I don’t plan to change either.
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Random question : did you watch Azur & Asmar ?
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No actually, is it a movie ?
It's so sad that some people don't know the French comic Lou! by Julien Neel... I don't even know if it has been translated in English... ;-; It's like a YA novel disguised as a book for children ;-; And the art is so pretty...
(Source : Lou!, Julien Neel)
I just learned that Alabama is in the south. I am shOKED. I hate America. It’s supposed to be in the north, like every incest regions are !
POV : You have to work but there are mistakes on Percy Jackson’s French Wikipedia page
- you’re gay - can read - support gay people - want to hold a match between your fingers as you wander the halls of an ancient castle because it’s your only source of light amidst the ghosts of people long past - are an antelope - or want a chocolate bar.
No one will know which applies.
I know I’m like 2 months late but should I listen to the broadway soundtrack of wicked or watch the movie first ? I generally watch/listen to the original media before the adaptations but I don’t know here 😅
That is the worst CGI Medusa I’ve ever seen but it was in the 2000s so I’ll accept it. But why did the sword break tho ? oh so they’re going with the Perseus method.
OOOOH MEDUSA !! And is that a Percy Jackson reference?! Sending her back in a box ? Also I’m going to kill Pan the guy is really the worst father/grandfather/great-grandfather/enemy ever.
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I finally have time to continue ouat (tho it’s gonna be an episode every 2 weeks or so I hate working TT). I’m on season 3 episode 8 right now and I was gonna make a post about how Peter Pan traumatised/manipulated every guy in Rumple’s family but I just learned that his dad IS PETER PAN ?! WHAT?! I CANT EVEN FINISH THE EPISODE I CANT PROCESS THIS
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Ah yes ! The Hunger Games, that book where Swamp-potato Farm-with-wild-pigs goes to fight kids from other parts of her country Bread with her love interest baker Type-of-bread Honeybird to protect her sister Flower !
And I’m not forgetting when she makes a stop to Bread’s capital, Capital, and gets mentored by Big-From-The-Enclosure River and Well-spoken Jewelry, and gets dressed by Cinnamon. Oh and in the arena! When Swamp-potato teams up with Street, gets hunted down by Superhero-Company, Sparkle, Wise and Tree !Well, Street gets killed by Company, and Sprout avenges her by saying Swamp-potato buy it was good ! And in the end, when she saves both her’s and Type-of-bread’s life by threatening to kill themselves, and gets home to her friends Wind Tree and Pearl Look-under !
Ah i loved that book.
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Do any of you guys have a way to stop procrastinating ? I've been looking at posts for a fandom I'm not even in for 2 hours 🥲
I just finished watching the first season of Arcane because I FINALLY have time to do it and oh. my. GODS.
I have seen many different traumatized fictional people as part of various fandoms, all very differently shown and acted. But NONE of them were as beautifully shown as Jinx/Powder. The voices, the drawings, the puppets of Myloh and Baccler (Babbler? I don’t know). It’s amazing. And her relationship with Siclo, I love how he actually cares for her and loves her in a weird way, instead of having that Stockholm syndrome kinda trope where she’s manipulated and then someone comes and saves her from the "bad guys". He’s like a father for her, he’s just evil.
And VI ! VI I LOVE YOU! AND YOU HAVE TO END UP WITH CAITLYN PLEASE I’M BEGGING YOU.
And how it ends ! The different facets of the bomb on the broker window !! THE SYMBOLISM. I LOVE when animated shows do that ! When they use art to do things impossible with real actors ! Like Spiderverse !
So yeah. I have lots of feelings for this season and I’m watching season 2 first thing in the morning 👍
A post I only saw in screenshots with theses weird ligns instead of reblogs
i swear to god if one more stupid fandom ruins a beautiful text post i am calling the police
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“Yes, Captain America has LEGS!”
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okay yes but what is the point of the agggtm tv show if ravi isn't wearing flower patterned gloves when they break into the bells' house?? like WHAT IS THE LITERAL POINT?!
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Wait that’s not a picture ?
a study i did because i realized idk how to draw environments at all LMAO
Okay Alvar is totally gay I don’t care if I haven’t finished the book yet he is gay now
When I said Keefe needed a therapist, I wasn’t talking about his childhood role model that betrayed him and supposedly died, Shannon.
Still can’t believe that Keefe taking Sophie’s name is canon. Like, not canon because I said so, literal canon.
Also Irwin ? Really Cassius ?
Oka, I plan on following everyone on tumblr
literally everyone
Please reblog so I can make this happen