Why are there no Gay Muslims?

This affects me severely. I am not gay but I try hard not to label myself and when I see things like this happen, I am outraged. Oh, I know there are in-the-closet Gay Muslims and other gay Muslims in secular countries but you don’t see too many of them.

I also know discussing this issue without discussing Islam in itself is hard, but my issues with my former religion Islam will reveal themselves in subsequent posts. Islam tries to pretend to be a religion of peace, it really does. This is what you hear from all those nice people who are committing doublethink 24/7. This is also what you hear from those fundamentalists on TV in the news.

So whose actions show what Islam really is? What’s going on here? What is the problem? I will answer my opening question soon enough. First we must take a look at these questions.

Muslims, especially those living in Secular countries believe the Quran is unchanged, pure, full of nothing but peace—“It’s a way of life, not a religion—,” is what you’ll often hear. With the fundamentalists, they are actually following the words of the Quran. Yes they are justifying their actions by this holy book. And it wasn’t until I officially left Islam (and I never even really believed so imagine the pious believer) that I could see this. The violence is in the Quran, in the actions of the prophet. That is what inspires such hatred—which I can clearly see is what Islam is all about.

The Quran doesn’t even actually say anything about Gays being punishable by death. I will bore you with at least one reference from the Quran regarding Gays.

“We also sent Lut : He said to his people : “Do ye commit lewdness such as no people in creation (ever) committed before you? For ye practice your lusts on men in preference to women: ye are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds.” Qur’an 7:80-81

And yet severe punishment is given for the simple act of having sexual relations with a man…for being Gay. This includes both consensual homosexuality and homosexual rape. God really gives a flying crap about who you do, of course. What else has he got to do all day sitting on his throne, after all? I mean He might appreciate the little excitement he gets every time a homosexual act is committed:

From the Hadith:

“When a man mounts another man, the throne of God shakes.”

But no! God is benevolent, all-kind, all merciful—that is until you do something he disapproves of. Then you die.

Another Hadith goes on to say:

“Kill the one that is doing it and also kill the one that it is being done to.”

And this is carried out. Here’s how it works. Basically, the Shafi’i School of Thought (one of the schools of religious law in Sunni Islam) requires that there be 4 witnesses to the ‘crime’ of homosexuality before a person can be found guilty. Here is what MissionIslam had to say about this matter:

Al-Fatiha estimates that 4,000 homosexuals have been executed in Iran since their revolution in 1979. 10 public executions of homosexuals have been performed in Afghanistan by the Taliban army.

That is a sad matter indeed. These people are killing innocents in the name of their God. All because God gives a crap about what you happen do in private within your bedroom. It isn’t repression of freedom, homosexuality, women, or anything for that matter that’s made any society a better one! After all, what has it done for Islamic territories? Are they better than any western countries?

The answer is a deep and resounding no.

I could go on, but I will digress no further. There is no true freedom in Islam though it is promised, there is no real peace—though that is supposedly the gist of the faith.

Now look up at that picture of two boys being hung for being gay. They are so young! I am only 17 years old but I object severely to this injustice! Even I can see that it is wrong. So do not with your supposed words of peace and understanding, dear Muslims, try to convince me that we must kill them. Not only that but kill them in the worst ways possible! This the reality of it and such hatred stems from a religion of Peace.

So, you tell me: Why are there no Gay Muslims?