Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle

Homosexuality in Islam

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  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Other progressive Islamic scholars have pointed out the limitations of tolerance
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Feminist Muslim scholars have continuously pointed out how tolerance of diversity is significantly lacking in Islamic communities with regard to gender, one of the most fundamental markers of difference in all human communities.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    The fact that women’s dignity and equality are treated as an issue of “minority rights” – when women are numerically equal (or greater than) men and are indispensably central to the well-being of all human communities – is indicative of the depth of the problem and the reluctance of men and the institutions they establish and run to justly
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    If Muslims’ tolerance of diversity is stretched to the limit regarding women’s rights, then imagine how it is stretched to the breaking point in dealing with lesbian, transgender, and gay rights.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    But, in reality, justice is not served until comfortable concepts like “tolerance” are stretched to the point where they almost break
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    People are profoundly different even if they belong to the same culture, religion, community, or even family.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Difference based on sexual orientation and gender identity takes us to the extremes of individual identity.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    In fact, the existence of diversity as a primary purpose of creation, as suggested by the verse above,
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    underdeveloped in Islamic theology.”3 Abou El Fadl’s writings on Islamic law are a major force in trying to redress this underdeveloped aspect of Islamic
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    What causes them to be present is open to question.
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