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Academic Claims Compatibility Between Homosexuality and Islam July 14, 2009 by vyzion360 Filed under Gay & Lesbian, NewsBites, World Leave a Comment Share this on del.icio.usPost this on DiigoStumble
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Google BookmarksShare this on TipdBuzz up! A leading Muslim academic has said there is evidence
in the Koran that homosexuality can be compatible with Islam. In an interview with the Times, Dr Amanullah De
Sondy, 29, said that despite the evidence, conservative Muslims will not accept
homosexuality as they are “deeply homophobic”. De Sondy, who holds a teaching position at the
School of Divinity in Glasgow University, said: “Homosexuality is not
incompatible with Islam. The two can and have coexisted. The important thing is
to link it with living a good life and creating a good society. “If you ask them privately, the vast majority of my
generations of Muslims are deeply homophobic. I think it is particularly
entrenched because so many Muslim societies are rooted in traditional ideas of
the family and patriarchy.” On the story of the destruction of Sodom, which
appears in both the Koran and the Bible, he said: “It is often said to
illustrate God’s disapproval of homosexuality. But on closer inspection it is
about his disapproval of the rape of young boys. There is a big difference.” De Sondy claims that one Muslim saint was said to
have had a gay relationship: “In the 16th-century Punjab, there lived a Sufi
[Muslim mystic] saint and poet called Shah Hussain. He fell in love with a
Hindu boy. They lived together and are buried in the same tomb. But some people
want to rewrite history, saying the boy was in fact a girl.” In May, a survey suggested that UK Muslims have
significantly less tolerance for homosexuality than their French and German
counterparts. The poll, part of the Gallup Coexist Index 2009,
found that not one of the 1,001 British Muslims interviewed believed homosexual
acts were morally acceptable. Fifty-eight per cent of the general British public
said they thought homosexuality was not morally wrong, compared with 68 per
cent of Germans. French respondents were the most liberal, with 78
per cent of the general public saying it was not morally wrong. According to
the survey, the opinions of Christians differed little from the views of the
general public. In comparison to British Muslims, 35 per cent of
French Muslims and 19 per cent of German Muslims did not have moral objections
to homosexual acts. The survey also showed that British Muslims hold
more conservative opinions towards abortion, viewing pornography, suicide and
sex outside marriage than European Muslims, with markedly lower rates of thinking such issues are morally
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