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‘Just me and Allah': Photographer seeks to capture diversity of Islam
PBS ^ | March 28, 2015 | BY ELISABETH PONSOT

Posted on 03/29/2015 5:48:45 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

As a child, photographer and editor Samra Habib lived within what she describes as the strict “culture of surveillance” of mainstream Islam.

But as she grew into her 20s, Habib began to question her sexuality — as well as her own understanding of what it meant to be Muslim.

“There’s a wide range of diversity that exists within Islam,” she said. “The conversations I would have with other queer Muslims, I realized this was a voice that wasn’t being heard.”

Inspired by her peers, many of whom attend Unity Mosque, a “human positive” mosque in Toronto, Canada, Habib decided to begin taking portraits of Muslim people who also identify as part of the LGBTQ community.

(Excerpt) Read more at pbs.org ...


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: caliphate; canada; homosexualagenda; islam; islamists; lgbt; lgbtq; samrahabib; toronto; waronterror
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Try that diversity $hit in Mecca.


21 posted on 03/29/2015 6:34:55 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Any pics of the severed heads of little babies hitting the sand!...../sarc


22 posted on 03/29/2015 6:46:04 AM PDT by high info voter (Liberal leftists would have "un-friended" Paul Revere!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

More of the “noble savage” crap - a delusion whereby a liberal thinks that an uncivilized savage is really a cultured, dignified individual - just misunderstood.


23 posted on 03/29/2015 6:49:31 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

queer muslims? i hope the photographer appreciates the freedom and security given by the west. her unity mosque is asking to be bombed by a terrorist.


24 posted on 03/29/2015 6:54:20 AM PDT by yongin (I'd rather be a part of the prophetic minority than the mushy majority.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Never heard of queer Muslims......oh wait....ther is one....
25 posted on 03/29/2015 6:55:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
These photos came from a Nat Geo article on child marriage in Islam.


26 posted on 03/29/2015 6:56:05 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: anton

They may not have known about when the constitution was ratified, but they certainly knew later. It’s why we sent marines to tripoli in the first overse as military action


27 posted on 03/29/2015 7:11:16 AM PDT by jimjohn (You don't get the kind of government you want, or the kind you need. You get the kind you deserve.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“The conversations I would have with other queer Muslims

The only place these creatures exist is in large, liberal Western cities. And the "Muslim" part is just another way to be different and rebel. If these queer Muslims went to the Middle East, they'd be tortured to death.

28 posted on 03/29/2015 7:31:16 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: anton

“Islam is a gutter religion. The religion of the ignorant, savages, miscreants.”

“I used to be Lew Alcindor, the pale reflection of what white America expected of me. Now I’m Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the manifestation of my African history, culture and beliefs.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3273432/posts

You are absolutely right. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar poster child
for ignorance.


29 posted on 03/29/2015 7:31:57 AM PDT by Slambat
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To: MeshugeMikey

Is that a boy or a lady? I don’t know which. Frank Zappa “Bobby Brown”


30 posted on 03/29/2015 7:50:15 AM PDT by navet97
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To: Vaquero
As awful as islam is, it is attracting young white European ancestry people

Thirty or forty years ago this was unthinkable. In those days you would almost never meet a white convert to islam. And if you did, he was some kind of kook. Islam had no attraction for rational westerners. What changed? The rational part, for one.

31 posted on 03/29/2015 7:52:45 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: Slambat

I hate BBall. Loathe it. Yet my HS home room teacher and religion teacher at my Bronx Catholic HS insisted we go to a big game (he was a coach, Brother Christopher). Those who failed to show failed religion (required course). I went to the best big game v Power Memorial Academy. their star was some guy named Lew Alcindor. My school beat Alcindor’s team that night. I still hate basketball.


32 posted on 03/29/2015 9:31:13 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: navet97

I think it may be a “woman”.....trying to imitate a man who sort of imitated a woman....


33 posted on 03/29/2015 11:49:02 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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