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Islam and Gay Rights
4 September 2006It has always confused us why many individuals on the Left feel that there is no problem trumpeting gay rights, while supporting radical Muslim groups who show nothing but contempt for gay rights, as well as women’s rights and human rights in general.
An example already dealt with in this weblog is The Sad State of the Left Today. Although there are surely many examples of Muslim views on homosexuality, the example below is shocking because it has absolutely nothing to do with homosexuality.
Mercury meltdown
Muslim group opposes party for deceased Queen singer
A huge beach party in Tanzania to honour late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury must be stopped because the Zanzibar-born rock star was gay, a Muslim leader said yesterday.
Mercury, who died of AIDS in 1991, violated Islam with his flamboyant lifestyle, said Azan Khalid of Zanzibar’s Association for Islamic Mobilization and Propagation.
“That’s why he was branded a Queen,” Khalid said, adding that anything linking Mercury with Zanzibar’s Muslim population would be offensive.
He said that a waterfront restaurant’s plans for a Saturday party honouring Mercury’s birthday would be stopped.
Mercury restaurant, which is named for the singer, will go ahead with the party, manager Simai Mohammed said.
Mercury, who acknowledged being gay, was born in Zanzibar when the country was still a British protectorate. He was educated in India and moved with his family to Britain in 1964. (AP, September 1, 2006)
Now, what can we possibly make of this? Homosexuals are so bad to Islam that one can’t listen to their music and celebrate their life? Why is it that everywhere Muslims live, everybody else has to adapt, for fear of offending Muslims? (And is it just us, or is the “Association for Islamic Mobilization and Propagation” a really scary name for a Muslim organization?)
I’d like the help of my readers to assemble a list of quotes from Muslim organizations about gays and homosexuality. Please reply to this post with any information you have.
Tags:Arab/Muslim World , Commentary , islam and gay rights , terrorist supporters
September 15th, 2006 at 6:51 pm
umm, last time i checked, homosexuality was a sin in the rules of judaism, is it not? as well as in the christain faith, and many religious people such as jack van impe hates homosexuals, and so do rabbis and people of other faiths. quit trying to turn the world against islam, this is propoganda so that people will support israel. this is not even subtle its just flat out obvious that this site is just perpetuating more hate.
September 18th, 2006 at 12:30 am
There is no concept of Gay or homosexuality in Islam, Islam restrict the things which affect a society to live in a better way. I believe thats how it should be.
September 18th, 2006 at 6:44 pm
The point is that Islamic countries are so intolerant of gays, they want to shut down a party, just because it is honouring somebody who was gay. It’s a party, not a gay orgy. How intolerant can you be?
On the other hand, gays in Israel and most Christian countries are free to do what they want. Palestinian gays are so persecuted, they try to get into Israel for safety. The difference is, while Christian and Jewish theology frown on homosexuality, the theology rarely gets put into practice in Israel and Christian countries.
Muslim countries are intolerant of anything not Muslim. I can point to hundreds of cases to prove this point.
September 19th, 2006 at 6:02 pm
well i am muslim i belive me i do know what happens and dosent happen in islam. gay and homo in islam are forrbbidin beacuse first its for the best beacuse that isnt human activity. NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO BE GAY. its not right beacuse god didnt make the human race for that. you could only have feelings for the oppisite gender.
September 20th, 2006 at 1:18 am
Hilal, I’m glad you straightened that out for us…
October 2nd, 2006 at 9:16 am
Hilal, i am so glad i dont live in your blinkered world - how sad it must be only seeing things in tunnel vision! It makes me laugh that muslim followers are always stating that the muslim faith is peaceful and tolerant and yet anything and everything offends them. And by the way Hilal who are you to say “No one has the right to be gay” well guess what Hilal -
EVERY ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO BE GAY IF THEY CHOOSE TO!
Freddie Mercurys life should be celebrated for his great music/songs and voice. No one has the right to stop a birthday celebration.
October 3rd, 2006 at 5:28 am
Homosexuality is forbidden in every of the main religions. Islam is the only one that fights the above mentioned disease in public. I can’t understand why mass media intentionally oppose Islam to society revealing only “bad” sides (many of us do not actually think they are really bad) of the religion. I can’t also understand why does society call anybody who criticises (in the matter of it or not) jews an “antisemite” while it’s an obvious fact Islam and Christianity (as jews theirselves admit it) are the only enemies of the jews. But nobody dare to call them anti-islamists, for example… Cannot you see jews are trying to oppose christians against muslims?
If you really think that every one has the right to be gay than you are to admit the above written words of mine!
October 3rd, 2006 at 5:39 pm
hilal, how come that “G-d didn’t make the human race for that”, i.e. being gay, but allows muslims to have sex with a chicken? or is it only allowed when the chicken is of “oppisite gender”?
October 6th, 2006 at 12:45 am
Freddie Mercury was of Indian Parsis background–Zoroastrian. He was not Muslim. So the Muslim community Can just shut up and go back to raping their sisters and forcing them to commit suicide to keep family honor.
October 12th, 2006 at 3:23 pm
Well no matter what you think of it everyone should be able to choose they want to be i don’t believe they should get married but don’t think you should go around condeming there deaths.
October 13th, 2006 at 1:14 am
alice said: “…allows muslims to have sex with a chicken…”
Can you prove that using facts?
yo words are nothing but an emotional breakdown..
October 13th, 2006 at 3:59 am
I don’t see that Jews are trying to oppose Christians against Muslims because many of the very left leaning US citizens are Jewish and they don’t even realize how their extreme politics will eventually hurt the US and Jews. That isn’t something the Christians and conservatives agree with.
Also, if there wasn’t one Jew on this earth, I would still be very, very concerned about the attitude radical Muslims hold today. It seems very clear that the radicals want it their way or nothing. To show this in the above article isn’t spreading hate, it is just pointing out a huge concern about this frightening issue of radical Muslims and their hatred and intolerance. Any fair minded person would see that they tolerate no one but themselves and their way of thinking. Why do they get judged by different rules than anyone else? Why can’t we just see it for what it is?
October 24th, 2006 at 10:52 pm
Lets face the reality of things the way they are currently; you have two hugely intollerant groups of people grasping for nothing. I guess the prize in question really depends on the angle, but lets face it; one side wants what the other has and vice versa. i don’t think one side is any more at fault than the other. From a western standpoint and view (a blurred one at that), we can’t attest to anything at all really. Lets not forget that prejudism against gays extends far past the east. things are just a bit more… raw. political correctedness is a western focus. even then homosexuality, no matter how tollerated it is, is still far from excepted. and common… chicken fucking? get real. how sad it truly is that we all still act so strongly when confronted with these issues. what does it matter who you love or what you do. it doesn’t cause any harm does it? i mean lets say you’re against homosexuality. what has a gay person done to you? what kind of loving god would cast off his people for so small a thing? if that truly is his will… how sad for him.
October 31st, 2006 at 12:23 am
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