Posted on 07/11/2023 6:18:19 PM PDT by Morgana
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Far-left Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota wants American Muslims to practice “solidarity” with homosexuals and gender-confused people, a call for unity in one of the rockiest pairings in the Left’s identity-politics coalition.
Progressive radio host Dean Obeidallah recently interviewed Omar on his SiriusXM show, during which they discussed the tension between their shared religion and their politics, which came to a head last month when the Muslim-majority city of Hamtramck, Michigan, voted to prohibit the flying of LGBT “pride” flags on government buildings, which sparked a bitter local debate and drew grave lamentations from liberals across the country.
Omar (one of four female minority Democrats in Congress collectively known as “the Squad” for their leftist solidarity) suggested that, because Muslims and people who identify as LGBT are both supposedly “marginalized communit[ies]” in the United States, the former should not “punch down” against the latter. “Solidarity for us has been lifesaving, and that solidarity needs to exist for others whose lives need to be protected.”
“We should not be the ones who are, you know, making people not be proud to celebrate who they are and who they choose to be,” she continued.
The American Left has anointed itself an “ally” of both Muslims and LGBTs, as part of their claims to a monopoly on representing the interests of all racial, religious, and sexual minorities in a society supposedly rigged against them. But the relationship is sometimes a contentious one thanks to conflicts between the groups’ values.
Islam teaches that homosexuality is a grave sin punishable by death, and to this day, majority-Muslim countries in the Middle East subject homosexuals to criminal penalties, violence, and alleged abuse unheard of in America, yet liberals tend to hold this record to a strikingly different standard than they do to mainstream Christian and conservative views on homosexuality.
Leftists regularly cast LGBT-identifying Americans as ongoing victims of institutionalized discrimination and deep-seated cultural bigotry, with the labels “homophobia” and “transphobia” commonly deployed against individuals who merely hold religious views of sexual morality incompatible with homosexual activity or object to the notion that gender is a malleable social construct, while nevertheless treating individuals with same-sex attraction or gender confusion with compassion and respect.
This double standard is most commonly seen in the corporate world, where left-wing companies mark June “Pride Month” with a bombardment of rainbow branding and pro-LGBT messages in western markets, but not in the Middle East, while entertainment giants such as Disney push pro-LGBT messaging in content for American children but agree to keep it out of Mideast markets in the name of “cultural sensitivity.”
David Duke’s favorite.
Whatever happened to Jihad.
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As a matter of fact, Muslims are by nature conservative.
The terrorists radicals are small minority.
Before 9/11 Muslims were voting mostly Republicans.
But Dems took advantage of some antimuslim statements and used it in antirepublican propaganda.
It is time to reclaim the “moderate” Muslims for the conservative cause.
Dems could have the radicals!
Yup - her brother would be proudly waving the bloody knife, calling it an "honor killing".
Wow. She made an incredibly massive unforced error here.
Who cares what this Satanist says? No genuine Muslim would.
Another lost soul. She has no idea of the past of Islam and it’s religious and political positions. Strange when they afre looking for votes, the wind changes direction.
Homosexuality in ther Quran is consistent with many Bibles. Attitudes toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and their experiences in the Muslim world have been influenced by its religious, legal, social, political, and cultural history. The Quran narrates the story of the “people of Lot” destroyed by the wrath of God because the men engaged in lustful carnal acts between themselves, but modern Western historians have concluded that the Islamic prophet Muhammad never forbade homosexual relationships outright, although he disapproved of them in line with his contemporaries. At the same time, “both the Quran and the hadith strongly condemn homosexual activity”; with some hadith prescribing the death penalty for those engaged in male homosexual or lesbian intercourse publicly.
wy69
Haven’t read through but she’s looking for an RPG being slammed in to her soon?
“Mohammed Ali”??
I hope she loses her next election. Would serve her right.
Ali was a Republican.
I guess I’m missing something in post #19, then. It’s been a long day.
LGBTQP2S+ I for Incest, since she was a practitioner of that when she married her brother to get him into the USA..
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