Tag: Islam

Mariam Al-Sohel argued the anal worm makes gay men attracted to other men An academic in Kuwait has claimed she has a ‘cure’ for homosexuality saying gay men have an ‘anal worm’ that ‘feeds on semen’. Mariam Al-Sohel claimed on Scope TV that she believes there are four genders – male, female, feminine gay men and butch lesbians – and she explained how she has found a cure for being gay based on Islamic prophecy. She said: “I discovered therapeutic suppositories that...

In April, Aceh passed a law to no longer do this in public Authorities flogged a gay couple more than 80 times each in Indonesia’s conservative province Aceh on Friday (13 July). According to a report by ABS-CBN News, the men were part of a group of 15 who were flogged in front of a vocal crowd. Authorities punished them for having gay sex. Islamic law in the province outlaws such acts. Aceh is the only Indonesian province to enforce such Islamic...

Sam Blaylock suffered horrendous abuse growing up and now hopes to inspire others I am Sam Blaylock from Portland, Oregon. My mom got pregnant with me as an accident and then both my parents decided to abort me. Thankfully, the abortion failed. It led to me being born two months premature. My dad was extremely abusive to my mother and it only got worse when I was born. When I was around four years old, my parents decided to get divorced and my...

In Muslim cultures, homosexuality was once considered the most normal thing in the world – so what changed? Islam once considered homosexuality to be one of the most normal things in the world. The Ottoman Empire, the seat of power in the Muslim world, didn’t view lesbian or gay sex as taboo for centuries. They formally ruled gay sex wasn’t a crime in 1858. But as Christians came over from the west to colonize, they infected Islam with homophobia. The truth is many...

Alfred MacDonald pointed out to a friend that in some Muslim countries he could be killed for being LGBTI Alfred MacDonald left University of Texas at San Antonio after feeling ‘difficult to stay motivated’. He had made the comments during an out-of-class conversation with another graduate student. They had been discussing the ‘religious leanings of philosophy professors.’ He pointed out that in some Muslim countries, he could be executed for being bisexual. A few days after the conversation, he was called in for...

Sohail Ahmed is a Muslim living in London and he is gay. Formerly an extremist, Sohail left behind his beliefs but identifies himself as a “cultural Muslim”. He recently talked about how his father tried to "cure" him from homosexuality through an Islamic ritual of exorcism. The experience left him psychologically affected. In 2014 he was taken at the Abu Ruqya shop, a place that specializes in rituals performed to remove “black magic, jinn (supernatural beings) possession and the evil eye,...