As an organization, the audience is sold on promote Muslims that are LGBTQI. Because we look for our selves during the intersection of confidence, gender and sex, all of us deal with every day neglect from Islamophobes, homophobes and transphobes likewise.
Hatred and assault does not have placed in many of the neighborhoods you fit in with and we also avoid and reject all kinds of bigotry.
Most people lengthen our very own romance, solidarity and condolences toward the Latinx LGBTQI group who’ve been directly impacted by this scary.
We refer to as regarding greater Muslim and LGBTQI networks to support us both in words and actions.
Imaan AGM
The gross regular conference is originating towards usa! The panel will require regular of 2015 and review and determine the annum. You’ll see a glance at potential occasions in 2016. The conference will likewise review the monetary records. As this is a non-election seasons, we are going to manage utilizing the AGM across UK, as such the AGM normally takes set in Birmingham! The main points are listed below:
Date: Saturday 16th January 2016 moment: 12-2pm site: Birmingham LGBT Centre, 38-40 Holloway carnival, Birmingham B1 1EQ The goal would be:
1. acceptance of mins from January 2015 AGM 2. Trustees Annual state 3. savings state 4. Designs for 2016 5. almost every companies
Questions and feedback from members of Imaan really a great deal greeting. Should you wish to include any particular goods of talk for the schedule, remember to email tawseef@imaan.org.ukwith a minimum of 6 months feel, according to the guidelines of this Imaan structure.
Afterward, we’ll endeavour to socialise antichat quizzes, have and take-in the delights of Birmingham!
Push assertion: we all cana??t conquer homophobia with Islamophobia
Imaan is actually dismayed using homophobia and Islamophobia on screen any time Londona??s LBC two-way radio number Iain Dale and a person debated about Islam and homosexuality .
The Muslim person, a??Zainab from East Londona??, am evidently ignorant about specific Qura??anic injunctions and also the history of Islamic jurisprudence. The Qura??an will not need the death punishment for homosexuals. The reality is, a growing number of Muslim leadership and students argue the presentation for the Qura??anic facts of this Prophet Lut as a blanket condemnation of homosexuality.
The two consider these passageway as contextual and restricted to scenarios of same-sex brutality and victimization. Zainab must be confronted with functions by customers particularly Omid Safi and Kecia Ali within the everyone, Ziauddin Sardar within the english and Siti Musdah Mulia from Indonesia. Despite just what Zainab might maintain, these scholars are not girl to girl, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or intersex (LGBTQI) and they’re certainly practising Muslims. They’re not therefore distinct from heterosexual Christians and Jews just who reveal comprehensive spiritual looks on sex.
The audience is likewise disappointed with Dale because in the place of specialized Zainaba??s black-and-white presentation of Islam, he or she established the promises. He or she walked a pace more, wondering if she recognized Irana??s loss phrase for homosexuals and also known as the a??disgustinga?? when she predictably achieved.
Zainaba??s horizon are generally juvenile, hazardous and misinformed, however it is still incorrect to caricature old-fashioned Muslims as deranged. Would most people accuse light English Christians who’re irritating with homosexual proper or multiculturalism as stealth supporters associated with the Islamophobic Norwegian size murderer Anders Breivik? Will we disregard them as garage sympathisers of Britain very first as well as the french protection League? But how come more and more people neglect the undeniable fact that you will find more than one presentation of Islam?
Our company is consequently in addition alarmed at on line mediaa??s revealing of your celebration, such as by LGBTQI sites. Queerty a??s headline see: Muslim contacts Into Progressive broadcast Application, Says Gay anyone must be Killed . In place, it links Muslims with remarkably homophobic and violent mindsets and singles these people up as anti-progressive a?? a disturbingly Islamophobic impression.
As LGBTQI Muslims, all of us at Imaan understand homophobia, biphobia and transphobia happen to be actual. Most of us also realize that Islamophobia and racism is true. Our very own knowledge tends to be supported by teachers just like Sindre Bangstad, just who notes a disconcerting rise in Islamophobia across European countries.
Islamophobia and homophobia are both gross that can also just be remedied with rational sincerity, moral and governmental bravery, and good esteem throughout our society. Discover good cases in which this is exactly going on in the UK a?? like, BBC3a??s well-researched and nuanced documentary How Gay is Pakistan ? We require considerably educational shows such as this and less unaware spats between Islamophobes and homophobes.
Imaan goes pink on 15 July 2021
Imaan is definitely proud to promote nature night, 15 April. With a lot of other people we are going to went violet to stand against intimidation and also help lesbian, homosexual, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth. As LGBTQI Muslims, many of us are best also aware about the pain and concern with are bullied not just for our very own sex-related or gender name, also the spiritual and ethnical backgrounds.
