Mamoun Mobayed on homosexuality July 11, 2006
Posted by Rasheed Eldin in Islam, Media.add a comment
Al-Fil has posted his thoughts on comments made by Dr. Mamoun Mobayed to a Qatari newspaper, Al-Raya (in Arabic). You can see his translation (which I haven’t checked), here:
UK Doctor Spreads Gay Misinformation in Qatar
A few quotes:
In the beginning, he said that the homosexual phenomenon exists in societies without exception, and may spread in specific certain societies, and that homosexuality exists in Arab communities, but not with the same frequency as in Western societies, despite his acknowledgment of the absence of statistics in the Arab countries due to the lack of studies on this phenomenon. He said communities still feel embarrassed to talk about such problems.
And he confirmed that a young man is a victim when he suffers from this problem and we should not issue moral judgement on him because the family and society are responsible for this behavior.
The issue must be developed in workshops or special courses for parents, and mode of discourse must vary according to age group and the target audience.
A snapshot of this blog July 11, 2006
Posted by Rasheed Eldin in Uncategorized.add a comment
This is a snapshot of prominent words in this blog. I’m not sure what I think of it. You can make your own here.
Pav “out, proud” after all July 4, 2006
Posted by Rasheed Eldin in Queer Muslims.25 comments
Hmmm. Remember this saga a few months back, after Pav Akhtar lost the election for NUS President? His supporters, including some Muslims, insist that he was the best candidate for Muslim interests, and that his sexuality should be irrelevant.
Remember the Muslim Weekly article in which he said he was “contending with” his sexuality and “insisted he has never recognised homosexuality as permissible in Islam”?
“If people understand that I recognise I have a shortcoming and that homosexuality is haram in Islam, in my view, that should be enough; this should not have been an issue in this case in my opinion. If I’d turned around and openly said ‘this is a platform I’m standing on as a gay Muslim to advocate gay rights, then even I’d have supported them (FOSIS),” he said.
That is, it seems that the Muslim students coordinated by FOSIS may have taken his “gay Muslim” status into consideration in choosing to back another candidate, resulting in him losing (and their backed candidate losing too). They deny that sexuality had anything to do with it, but I argued back then that if the delegates had taken it into consideration properly in the light of Islam, then they were probably right.
Anyway, it’s pretty clear from the above picture [more below, and see this one too], as well as his gushing e-mail to Imaan [see below] following their parade of perversion (aka EuroPride) that he fed the obliging Muslim Weekly chap whatever would allow him to make his attack on FOSIS while maintaining just a smidgeon of credibility among the Muslim readers of the paper.
Check this out and draw your own conclusions (emphasis added):
