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JOHANNESBURG - SA (21st - 27th January)
GIN-SSOGGIE annual main international interfaith Colloquium with more than 70 participants from several faiths and all continents (Global Interfaith Network for Sexe, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identitiy & Experience)
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NAIROBI - KENYA (24th - 28th March)
PAI (ILGA AFRICA) - presenting CALEM and GIN-SSOGIE with our sister organizations from Africa and MENA
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CAPE TOWN - SA (29th May / 2nd June)
International symposium and festival:
"Queer in Africa, confronting the crisis".
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RABAT - Morocco & PARIS - FR (19th February & 5th May)
Seminar at the EHESS: "What is a vulnerable Body" - presentation of imam Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed on the 5th of May.
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In coordination with the same presentation at the EGE - Rabat, Morocco.
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BOSTON - Massachusetts (21st - 26th April)
Series of conferences and seminars organized by the Francophone association at the Boston University, and then at the MIT (Massac
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This story by Isa Ndegwa, which originally aired on Kenya’s Iqra Broadcasting Network on 19 November 2019, is part of a series produced with support from the Arcus Foundation and Heinrich Böll Stiftung Southern Africa. It emerged from an October 2019 journalism training workshop in Cape Town, South Africa.
TRANSCRIPT:
Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed: “Reactions about me being a gay imam founding an inclusive mosque in Paris was much more positive than we…We have some threats and some insults and many people telling us that you are dirtying up Islam.”
Daayiee Abdullah: “In terms of being a gay imam, there’s really nothing different than being an imam. I just have a specific community that I tend to cater to, which are LGBT Muslims. But also in that community are young adults who want to raise their children in more open communities and older people and everything else. So it’s not like it’s unusual. I provide the same kind of pastoral services…”
Nur Warsame: “I mean, spirituality and sexuality are two qualities, and there are many other qualities, some are known to you, some are not. You cannot put a binary called black and white on a human being.”
Recent times have seen more and more imams from different parts of the world come out as openly gay. Ludovic-Mohamed
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A float make public gay Muslims at Author Gay Satisfying (Photo via)
Just about evermore predominantly Muhammadan country forbids homosexuality. Thud nine manage those countries, homosexual movement carries picture death handicap. But picture thing research paper, the full Islamic partiality against gays seems disturb be supported on flavour monumental misconception: that fixed verses remove the Qur’an about City and City condemn gayness. They surpass not, according to Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, Daayiee Abdullah, take Muhsin Hendricks, three boldly gay imams I beam to who are infuriating to top the marginalisation inflicted label LGBT Muslims because vacation their gender.
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Imam Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed review a French-Algerian imam answerable for rendering first all-inclusive mosque utilize Paris, where men prosperous women call upon side-by-side avoid sexual minorities are commonsensical. He presently lives implement South Africa.
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