Comments on: NY Times: “Prisoners of Sex” http://gaymuslims.org/2006/12/08/ny-times-prisoners-of-sex/ Principled, compassionate Islamic perspective Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:47:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mardat http://gaymuslims.org/2006/12/08/ny-times-prisoners-of-sex/#comment-8209 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:21:54 +0000 http://gaymuslims.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/ny-times-prisoners-of-sex/#comment-8209 “We are told of the sexual companionship there, as a way to understand the highest pleasures of Paradise that we cannot even imagine. Men are promised the hoor ‘een”

Well if these hoor things are for real and I got to heaven, I’d hope they come with a receipt so that I could trade them in for something I might actually like!!

]]> By: Qusai http://gaymuslims.org/2006/12/08/ny-times-prisoners-of-sex/#comment-7355 Sat, 09 Jun 2007 08:17:51 +0000 http://gaymuslims.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/ny-times-prisoners-of-sex/#comment-7355 Thanks for the clarification. I wish we never have to lose our direction by engaging in this unrewarding and, slightly off point, topic.

]]> By: Taleb Haqq http://gaymuslims.org/2006/12/08/ny-times-prisoners-of-sex/#comment-7322 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:25:00 +0000 http://gaymuslims.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/ny-times-prisoners-of-sex/#comment-7322 Of course not :) Hence my last sentence.

]]> By: Qusai http://gaymuslims.org/2006/12/08/ny-times-prisoners-of-sex/#comment-7300 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:01:21 +0000 http://gaymuslims.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/ny-times-prisoners-of-sex/#comment-7300 Wa alaykum al Salam

I agree the difference exists but would you draw any comfort from knowing that an act is prohibited by God but not punishable in this world? I wouldn’t.

]]> By: Taleb Haqq http://gaymuslims.org/2006/12/08/ny-times-prisoners-of-sex/#comment-7283 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:48:46 +0000 http://gaymuslims.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/ny-times-prisoners-of-sex/#comment-7283 Salam Br. Qusai,
There is absolutely a difference between prohibition and punishment. I don’t know why people tend to focus on the punishment part, it really only comes into play when the people themselves elect an Islamic system of government, and even then the punishment can vary and change based on many factors including circumstance. Prohibition, however, does not change, and this, in my opinion, is what we should be focusing on. Who cares what the punishment is so long as we can identify what it is that is prohibited.
Wallahu a’lam.

]]> By: Qusai http://gaymuslims.org/2006/12/08/ny-times-prisoners-of-sex/#comment-7270 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:48:44 +0000 http://gaymuslims.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/ny-times-prisoners-of-sex/#comment-7270 Salam

Brother Rasheed, as usual I will digress as I couldn’t suffer to read through some of the comments above.

Qaradawi did say homosexuals are perverts. The Oxford American Dictionary defines a ‘pervert’ as ‘a person whose sexual behavior is regarded as abnormal and unacceptable’. Thus the word ‘pervert’ captures the sociological and religious views perfectly.

And I beg you not to play the difference between prohibition and punishment. This is but an excercise in obscurantism that we could do well without.

]]> By: memokareem http://gaymuslims.org/2006/12/08/ny-times-prisoners-of-sex/#comment-7198 Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:33:58 +0000 http://gaymuslims.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/ny-times-prisoners-of-sex/#comment-7198 hiiiiiiii

that is nice post i like it so much

i tried to read the orignal article on N Y times but it isnot free
so , plz if u can send me a copy of the orignal artical by Negar Azimi
i will be a favour

thank u anyway

urs
kareem

]]> By: Muslim Apple http://gaymuslims.org/2006/12/08/ny-times-prisoners-of-sex/#comment-2447 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:38:08 +0000 http://gaymuslims.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/ny-times-prisoners-of-sex/#comment-2447 Excellent points, all of them.

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