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kurtsy:
homojabi:
homojabi:
Reminder: trans Muslims and gay Muslims exist and we’re not going anywhere.
The amount of support that this post has gotten is, quite honestly, incredible. LGBT Muslims are constantly forgotten and ignored because people from both the LGBT community and the Muslim community view our existence as a contradiction or an impossibility. It’s time that people acknowledge us and our experiences with islamophobia and homophobia/transphobia because like I said: we’re not going anywhere.
According to Pew Research Forum’s latest numbers on Muslims in the United States:
45% believe homosexuality is acceptable
42% believe same-sex marriage should be legal
Those numbers are fairly consistent with self-identified Christians in the same country. Ergo, if you live in the U.S. and can get your head around LGBT+ Christians, you should have no trouble throwing the ol’ brain lasso around LGBT+ Muslims.
When given the ability to live in a true democracy with freedom of religion, many people have no trouble reconciling their faith with their identity, or the identities of others. We should all understand that and support it, and at the same time, never forget about those trapped in the terrible laws of hostile governments.
We’re here; we’re not haram; get used to it.
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kurtsy:
homojabi:
homojabi:
Reminder: trans Muslims and gay Muslims exist and we’re not going anywhere.
The amount of support that this post has gotten is, quite honestly, incredible. LGBT Muslims are constantly forgotten and ignored because people from both the LGBT community and the Muslim community view our existence as a contradiction or an impossibility. It’s time that people acknowledge us and our experiences with islamophobia and homophobia/transphobia because like I said: we’re not going anywhere.
According to Pew Research Forum’s latest numbers on Muslims in the United States:
45% believe homosexuality is acceptable
42% believe same-sex marriage should be legal
Those numbers are fairly consistent with self-identified Christians in the same country. Ergo, if you live in the U.S. and can get your head around LGBT+ Christians, you should have no trouble throwing the ol’ brain lasso around LGBT+ Muslims.
When given the ability to live in a true democracy with freedom of religion, many people have no trouble reconciling their faith with their identity, or the identities of others. We should all understand that and support it, and at the same time, never forget about those trapped in the terrible laws of hostile governments.
We’re here; we’re not haram; get used to it.
(Your picture was not posted)
