Tag: religion

What we are really asking here is “Should people be allowed to deny others’ rights if this is what respecting their religion means?” We have seen this problem constantly rising in every society and especially in those more evolved where pro-gay laws have already been adopted. People invoke the right to religious beliefs and if their religious beliefs teaches them to refuse gays’ some of their rights, then we should accept that as a society. What we hear today happening...

I began writing for Meaws.com out of sheer curiosity at first, but then I started meeting some really impressive life stories and dramas that completely changed my perception about sexuality, freedom and hate. We receive weekly letters from people all over the globe telling us their stories and it is my job and our writers’ to make their stories public so that the free world find out how some people struggle in achieving things that may seem common to...

Our thoughts are with those who died in the horrific attack and we cannot but stand in owe at the horrible things that people often do to each other. To those who are still not informed on the subject, the Paris attacks that took place yesterday claimed more than 130 lives and wounded several hundred others. There were 8 Islamic Mujahideen that started 7 simultaneous attacks killing innocents either by shooting straight at the crowds or detonating suicide bombs. This...

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,...