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Muslim Gays Find Freedom

Posted on November 8th, 2007 by Geoff Thatcher

New York Times reporter, Neil MacFarquhar presents a dramatic new look into the role of sexuality and faith in an article, Muslm Gays find Freedom in US. In a faith tradition where it has been reported that some families have conducted “honor killings” of relatives who are Gay, new scholarship and insights raise the hopes of Gay Muslims that the Koran’s popularly accepted prohibitions against homosexuality are not about being gay but about the “abomination” of sexual dominance. “From the 10th to the 14th century, Muslim society used to be a far richer mix of the legal, the rational and the mystic,” said Rafique, an anthropologist. “They looked at sexuality as one aspect of life’s many possibilities, and they saw in it the hope for spiritual insight. I came across this stuff, an d it helped me reconcile the two.” This new scholarship will certainly open a new discourse on the subject of sexuality and faith.

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