Ludovic Mohammed Zahed is braced for controversy, maybe even worse. A gay Muslim and an expert on the Koran, Zahed plans to open Europe’s first gay-friendly mosque in Paris at the end of this month. He calls it a place of shelter as well as a place of worship.
“We need to have a safe space for people who do not feel comfortable and at ease in normal mosques,” Zahed told ABC News. “There are transgender people who fear aggression, women who do not want to wear head scarf or sit in the back of the mosque. This project gives hope back to many believers in my community.”
“Common prayer, practised in an egalitarian setting and without any form of gender-based discrimination, is one of the pillars supporting the proposed reforms of our progressive representation of Islam,” he said.
“The Unity” mosque will initially operate in a Buddhist temple in a neighborhood in eastern Paris, and will emphasize “accepting everyone as equally God’s creation….I hope straight men will pray together with gay men and women, everyone,” said Zahed who declines to make public the address of the venue, due to security concerns.
Zahed’s mosque will honor some Islamic traditions, like Friday prayers (Jumu’ah), and the Muslim marriage contract (Nikah) to bless same-sex marriage. It will also perform funeral rites (Janazah) for those who have been denied a traditional Islamic funeral based on Sharia law because of their sexual orientation.
“It is a safe place to worship,” said Zahed, where no religious questions will go unaddressed. “Our imams will talk on any taboo topic.” Zahed will be one of three prayer leaders, along with a female French convert to Islam and another man who is being trained.
“Current Islamic ethics may condemn this sexual orientation,” Zahed said, “but in fact nothing in Islam or the Koran forbids homosexuality.
Indeed, for centuries, Muslims did not consider homosexuality to be the supreme abomination that they do today.”
- ABC News.
Wazo
November 29, 2012 at 9:20 am
Its one way of infiltratin islam.
taliban
November 29, 2012 at 10:05 am
vaupuba atase..
Kay
November 29, 2012 at 11:57 am
You’l be dead before you know it, dude
Nazo nkhani
November 29, 2012 at 12:24 pm
Google Kabibi.com you find a lot of queer shocking stories. Tumfweko stop pligliarising other peoples works, be oridinal like Post!
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November 29, 2012 at 12:56 pm
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ONE CAN TELL BY JUST LOOKING THE PIC, THAT THE GUY IS GAY.
Janet c
November 29, 2012 at 1:46 pm
at least some countries tackle the problem at hand – most of these muslims are gay, yet they hide in the closet like many zambian men
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November 30, 2012 at 3:00 am
not only are they gay, they “LOVE” their domestic animals too.
Im talking about “live openair show” with a shepard pouncing on his herd of animals. When we took a drive to the muslim countryside.
Marino
November 29, 2012 at 3:33 pm
That mosque will not last a month before it is bombed. Do not play with allah. Al qaed will not let you
Tonga Bull
November 29, 2012 at 5:49 pm
Allah please strike these faggots dead. they are destroying this world
Tonga Bull
November 29, 2012 at 5:51 pm
Allah please strike these faggots dead. they are destroying this world.
Achim Simukonda famous gay Zambian
November 30, 2012 at 2:50 am
what if HE is also a faggot too! Then He’ll strike you dead instead.
Big Daddy
December 19, 2012 at 9:41 am
Aba banthu its true they exist and many are now coming out under the protection of western world. Ise kuno na ku sauka kwathu we are slowly accepting nonsense coz we need financial aid. Very soon mfwiti na vi kawalala vonse they will say we also want recognition and they shall be endorsed and the authorities will say its a good idea so that we can know them and help them change pretty much the Tasintha way.
Big Daddy
December 19, 2012 at 9:46 am
Kamuzu Banda must be turning in his grave and sending text messages to Mugabe to break this evil army threatening to take over the world. There is no debate on homosexuality its a self inflicted disease. Lets pray for them not accepting their practices.