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Where Can Queer Muslims Go to Pray?
Atlantic ^ | October 31, 2015 | Jordan Alam

Posted on 10/31/2015 5:33:26 AM PDT by lbryce

Safe Places To Pray For Gay Muslim American. The title asks where can queer Muslims go to pray

In the media, being queer and Muslim often seems to amount to being a victim. In articles on violence against LGBTQ people in Muslim-majority countries, or pieces on the challenges of coming out, the queer person’s connection to Islam is often used to imply that these cultures are especially intolerant. With this narrow focus on tragedy, it can be hard to understand the day-to-day lived experiences of queer people who identify religiously or culturally with Islam—particularly the difficulty they face in trying to find communities that embrace their multiple identities.

Even within the gay community, “I am markedly different in these spaces and unable to hide the difference that I wear on my body: My brownness, my hijab, my not drinking are lightbeams signaling my otherness,” writes one queer South Asian writer in an essay for the online magazine Black Girl Dangerous. She describes feeling “saved” by groups like the NYC queer Muslim book club, where she does not have to make compromises. “I think it’s less about a similarity of experience and more about supporting each other,” she said in an interview. “To be able to talk about these things without feeling defensive or without feeling like I need to explain things ... was really important to me. To have space to talk ... without feeling ‘too Muslim for the queers’ or ‘too queer for the Muslims.’”

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To: lbryce
OK I'll bite, they can go straight to H$LL, and pray. that's where they’re going any way. LOL
21 posted on 10/31/2015 6:20:51 AM PDT by amigatec (2 Thess 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:)
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To: lbryce
Seems to me that they've been down on all fours head-to-but since the beginning.


22 posted on 10/31/2015 6:22:48 AM PDT by fso301
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To: lbryce

Couldn’t they pray in their own homes?


23 posted on 10/31/2015 6:30:16 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: lbryce

On top of five story buildings?


24 posted on 10/31/2015 6:32:57 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: ConservativeMind

If all the practicing homosexuals among the Islamic Jihadists were wiped out, they would have both a severe personnel shortage and a difficult recruiting program.

But of course the “practicing homosexual” is not the description that ISIS and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force give this behavior. It is a “trust-building” exercise, and is supposed to be a morale booster and emotionally binding activity which increases the overall camaraderie among the troops.

Worked for the SS Totenkopf troops in Nazi Germany, and for some of the Spartan Greeks as well.

It is just the CIVILIAN homosexuals that get persecuted by the militant Islamic jihadists.


25 posted on 10/31/2015 6:33:57 AM PDT by alloysteel (Do not argue with trolls. That means they win.)
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To: Nervous Tick
Where Can Queer Muslims Go to Pray?

At a church, or synagogue. That's the difference between us and them.
26 posted on 10/31/2015 6:37:07 AM PDT by lump in the melting pot (Half-brother is Watching You!)
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To: lbryce

The top of any tall building. They will be assisted.


27 posted on 10/31/2015 6:54:07 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Obama's Iran nuclear deal - The Devil is in the details.)
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To: lbryce

...ISIS has several newly founded mosques for those of their group and are welcome, urged to join...

And, the ISIS members seem to have a special section reserved for them on the upper floors of the mosque.


28 posted on 10/31/2015 6:55:56 AM PDT by Sasparilla
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To: lbryce

The answer is:

Man’s Country in Chicago, Barry’s bathouse. If you see him there do not introduce yourself unless you want to end up dead like Larry Sinclair, Donald Young, Larry Bland and Nate Spencer, RIP.


29 posted on 10/31/2015 7:01:34 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: lbryce

Frankly, I don’t give a flying (fornication) about where gay towelheads can go to pray.


30 posted on 10/31/2015 7:27:13 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: lbryce
Where Can Queer Muslims Go to Pray?

Join "Barry" - 1600 Pennsylvania Ave Washington, DC

31 posted on 10/31/2015 7:49:58 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Charter Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy and Lifelong Enemy of Hillary Clinton!)
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To: Carthego delenda est

Would you bet your farm that odumbo has never been with a man?


32 posted on 10/31/2015 7:59:32 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
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To: Nervous Tick

Amen !


33 posted on 10/31/2015 8:17:33 AM PDT by LowOiL ("Let us do evil that good may come"? ....condemnation is just - Romans 3:8)
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To: lbryce

Any place in Broward county Florida....


34 posted on 10/31/2015 8:19:39 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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To: Nervous Tick

Imagine what the uproar would be if Trump used these words to ask about gay Muslims!


35 posted on 10/31/2015 8:29:31 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: lbryce

Why not just ask Obama where he prays?


36 posted on 10/31/2015 9:11:07 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: lbryce

[[Where Can Queer Muslims Go to Pray?]]

the military of course


37 posted on 10/31/2015 10:16:06 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Joe Boucher

“Would you bet your farm that odumbo has never been with a man?”

More like, has there been a single month in the past 10 years that he HASN’T been a sodomite or high on some drug. I doubt he can go even one month without. How else could he possibly get the demonic ‘energy’ he possesses and uses to keep his charade up? If he quit his sodomizing and drug use, he’d be a total wreck, incapable of doing much more than lying in bed sucking his thumb. He’d have to learn to redefine himself not only to his *family* and *friends*, but to his own self as well. He’s stuck in his own little hell and the whole country, no..., the whole WORLD, suffers for it. Thanks Obama voters and voter fraud organizers!!!


38 posted on 10/31/2015 1:07:28 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: lbryce

Do Muslim transvestites wear burqas?


39 posted on 10/31/2015 1:16:16 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: lbryce

The White House would seem to be a likely place.

Or perhaps the pig barn on a farm.


40 posted on 10/31/2015 1:34:34 PM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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