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Gay Mosque to Open in Paris WTF I am sure this will go well!

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[h=1]Gay Mosque to Open in Paris[/h]By DRAGANA JOVANOVIC | ABC News ? Tue, Nov 27, 2012









Ludovic Mohammed Zahed is braced for controversy, maybe even worse. A gay Muslim and an expert on the Koran, Zahed plans to open Europe's first gay-friendly mosque in Paris at the end of this month. He calls it a place of shelter as well as a place of worship.
"We need to have a safe space for people who do not feel comfortable and at ease in normal mosques," Zahed told ABC News. "There are transgender people who fear aggression, women who do not want to wear head scarf or sit in the back of the mosque. This project gives hope back to many believers in my community."
"Common prayer, practiced in an egalitarian setting and without any form of gender-based discrimination, is one of the pillars supporting the proposed reforms of our progressive representation of Islam," he said.
"The Unity" mosque will initially operate in a Buddhist temple in a neighborhood in eastern Paris, and will emphasize "accepting everyone as equally God's creation....I hope straight men will pray together with gay men and women, everyone," said Zahed who declines to make public the address of the venue, due to security concerns.
Zahed's mosque will honor some Islamic traditions, like Friday prayers (Jumu'ah), and the Muslim marriage contract (Nikah) to bless same-sex marriage. It will also perform funeral rites (Janazah) for those who have been denied a traditional Islamic funeral based on Sharia law because of their sexual orientation.
"It is a safe place to worship," said Zahed, where no religious questions will go unaddressed. "Our imams will talk on any taboo topic." Zahed will be one of three prayer leaders, along with a female French convert to Islam and another man who is being trained.
"Current Islamic ethics may condemn this sexual orientation," Zahed said, "but in fact nothing in Islam or the Koran forbids homosexuality. Indeed, for centuries, Muslims did not consider homosexuality to be the supreme abomination that they do today."
According to Zahed, renowned Muslim poets wrote odes glorifying handsome boys. Some were interpreted as metaphors for loving God, but some also seem to reference gay intimate relations. Zahed argues that homosexuality became criminalized only under European colonialism.
"From the 10th to the 14th century, Muslim society used to be a far richer mix of the legal, the rational and the mystic," said Zahed. "They looked at sexuality as one aspect of life's many possibilities, and they saw in it the hope for spiritual insight."
"Even if this mosque is newfound freedom," said Nasser, an openly-gay Parisian, "gays will remain in a closet, worried about being ostracized at their local schwarma stand."
While it would be the first gay mosque in Paris, there are believed to be 21 other gay mosques sprinkled through the U.S., Canada and South Africa.
In countries where traditional Islam is dominant, like Egypt and Iran, punishment against homosexual activity, not to mention advocacy for gay rights, is very severe.
Zahed's Parisian mosque will be inspired by the work of Muslims for Progressive Values in North America, who practice common prayer, in an egalitarian setting and without any form of gender-based discrimination.
"We are already working very closely with them. The idea for our Paris mosque comes as a result of our conversations," says Zahed, whose future plans include "a progressive mosque in the UK and then another one in Denmark will follow."
Zahed believes, if the Prophet Mohamad was alive today, he would marry gay couples. He himself is the first gay man to marry partner in a Muslim ceremony in France. He is an Algerian PhD student writing his thesis on Islam and homosexuality, a subject he also addressed in a book "The Koran and the Flesh."
He has experienced anti-gay discrimination from Islamic groups, and Islamophobia from members of the French gay community.
Meanwhile there is a lot of controversy in France regarding both same-sex marriages and Islamic influence and practices. Ten days ago, tens of thousands protesters took to the streets against government's plan to legalize same-sex marriage, while several weeks ago, right wing protesters stormed an unfinished mosque to show disapproval of France's large community of Muslim immigrants.
 
maybe this is where diesel618 has been
 
Man, and we thought that stupid movie about mohammad caused a riot.

This is going to be a lot bigger than that.
 
Lol. Can someone say boom!!!
 
do they really need a reaeson to hate and blow people up
 
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Thanx, Cube. This is rad!

And I still get a kick out of that Rosie Greer looking dude.
 
A Gay French Mosque? I do not think this will end well.

Oh, I misunderstood. You're saying that France is fucked, right? Not that it's a fucked people or place?

I like the French. Hell, they don't like the Muslims anymore than Americans do. And they have a better reason to hate Muslims that Americans do.
 
Do the bottoms have to wear a scarf over their heads when they enter? How long will the sanctity of such a place last once everyone starts sticking their ass up in the air?
 
What do you call a Muslim who is also a flaming homosexual?




Allah!
 
Oh, I misunderstood. You're saying that France is fucked, right? Not that it's a fucked people or place?

I like the French. Hell, they don't like the Muslims anymore than Americans do. And they have a better reason to hate Muslims that Americans do.

I was not saying about the French at all. To be clear, the behavior of the Islamo's in France has been down right terrible They are probably the most radicalized in Europe. Given the Islamo's desire to make France an Islamic state, and their general hatred for gays, all I am saying is people are probably going to die over this.
 
I was not saying about the French at all. To be clear, the behavior of the Islamo's in France has been down right terrible They are probably the most radicalized in Europe. Given the Islamo's desire to make France an Islamic state, and their general hatred for gays, all I am saying is people are probably going to die over this.

You are 100% correct. The French, being nice people, let people from other countries into their own. The Arab flooded into France like the diarrhea of human. There are so many that they're fucking up the country. Now the French are trying to do anything they can to stem the flood. But it may too late since there are so many Arabs there.

Multiculturalism is just a euphemism for the destruction of the first world.
 
You are 100% correct. The French, being nice people, let people from other countries into their own. The Arab flooded into France like the diarrhea of human. There are so many that they're fucking up the country. Now the French are trying to do anything they can to stem the flood. But it may too late since there are so many Arabs there.

Multiculturalism is just a euphemism for the destruction of the first world.

French Muslims are mostly from their former colonies.

Don't be fooled, the French are cants :coffee:
 
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