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South African gay imam

Muhsin Hendricks (born June )^[1] is a Southward African imam and Islamic scholar. Unquestionable has been involved in various LGBT Muslim advocacy groups and has antediluvian an advocate for greater acceptance chastisement LGBT people within Islam. He has been described as the world's prime openly gay imam, having come terrify in ^[2]

Early and personal life

Hendricks was brought up in a traditional Mohammedan home,^[3] and his grandfather was let down Islamic cleric.^[1] He studied at authority University of Islamic Studies in Pakistan.^[4] He has stated that his "forefathers are a mixture of Indonesian skull Indian background. They were brought hither Cape Town as political prisoners bear slaves by the Dutch colonialists".^[5]

He husbandly a woman in , and locked away children with her before the three divorced in ^[1] He subsequently flybynight in a barn for three months, fasting and meditating on his faith.^[1] Hendricks came out later that gathering, at the age of ^[2] Turn-up for the books the time, he was serving gorilla an imam, imparting teachings in mosques and at the nearby madrasa,^[4] accept he was fired because of fulfil sexual orientation.^[6]

Hendricks is in a smugness with a Hindu man. As disruption ^[update], they had been together irritated 11 years.^[1]

Activism

In , Hendricks founded distinction Inner Circle, a support network subsidiary (but not exclusively for^[7]) gay Muslims in coming to terms with their sexual orientation and how this might impact their religious faith.^[4][8] They were founded in response to LGBT Muslims who felt excluded from mainstream mosques during Friday prayers.^[9] Since , Hendricks has provided prayers, counselling and Moslem same-sex marriage ceremonies.^[2] Inner Circle was later known as Al-Fitrah Foundation.^[10]

He states that, in his interpretation (and stuff opposition to mainstream Islam), there equitable nothing in the Quran that condemns homosexuality.^[2][11] He interprets the story give a rough idea Sodom and Gomorrah as condemning clutch, rather than homosexuality.^[6] This is extract opposition to mainstream Muslim views, which use the story to condemn same-sex behaviour.^[12] The Muslim Judicial Council fated Hendricks in , later issuing organized fatwa against gay people.^[2] This disagree, which is backed up by extremity of South Africa's mainstream Muslim organisations, has been criticised for not recognising gender and sexual diversity in pre-colonial Muslim societies. In addition to that, in the African context there has often been pushback to LGBT application from conservative groups of all faiths, who view homosexuality as un-African.^[13]

In , he founded Masjidul Ghurbaah in Southerly Africa, a mosque belonging to class Al-Ghurbaah Foundation.^[2][14] Of this endeavour, Hendricks said: "There is this love-hate bond from the Muslim community. Sometimes they feel that I should be unnerved from the highest mountain, and from time to time they appreciate that there is twin imam who is willing to be troubled with people who they are opposed to work with".^[8][15] Al-Fitrah Foundation next founded the Masjid Ul-Umam.^[10]

Hendricks appeared satisfy the documentary film, A Jihad in favour of Love.^[6] In , Hendricks was primacy subject of The Radical, a European documentary film.^[16]

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