United State Of America, popularly referred to as the
land of freedom now boast of an openly gay Imam. And the Muslim
community is not happy about it. Imam Daayiee Abdulah, the only openly gay Imam
in America & possibly the world, was born and raised a Baptist Christian
faithful in Detroit but converted to Islam while studying in China. Upon his
conversion, he noticed the spiritual gap lesbians, gays & transsexuals in
the Islamic faith had and decided to become an Imam so as to provide an ideal
Islamic support for them, he says.
"Being an openly gay imam and
having been identified as such, I do get a lot of feedback and also kickback,
but that's OK,” he said. “I think that when people are unfamiliar with things,
they tend to have an emotional knee-jerk reaction to it. Sometimes necessity is
the mother of invention. And because of the necessity in our community, that's
why I came into this particular role.">>>>>>
Abdulah,
who says he told his parents he was gay at age 15, converted to Islam at the
age of 33 and went on to study the religion in Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Asked
what was his first spiritual act as an Imam, Abdulahi says it was the funeral
for a gay Muslim who had died of AIDS. Continue...
"They had contacted a number of
imams, and no one would go and provide him his janazah services. This pained
me. I believe every person, no matter if I disagree with you or not, you have
the right as a Muslim to have the proper spiritual rites and rituals provided
for you. And whoever judges you, that will be Allah's decision, not me. The
beautiful thing about God is that when you change your attitude, and say, 'God,
I need some help,' and mean it sincerely, God is always there for you,”
Abdullah
serves as the imam and educational director of the Light of Reform Mosque in
Washington, D.C, a place he calls a a rare safe space for Muslim LGBT. In his
Mosque, which he founded in 2011, women and men kneel side-by-side and women
are allowed to lead prayers, an action that has sparked controversy in the
Muslim world.
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