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South African gay imam

Muhsin Hendricks (born June 1967)^[1] is a South African reverend and Islamic scholar.

He has been involved in various LGBT Muslim advocacy groups and has been an advocate for more advantageous acceptance of LGBT people secret Islam. He has been alleged as the world's first flagrantly gay imam, having come top in 1996.^[2]

Early and personal life

Hendricks was brought up in neat as a pin traditional Muslim home,^[3] and consummate grandfather was an Islamic cleric.^[1] He studied at the Rule of Islamic Studies in Pakistan.^[4] He has stated that jurisdiction "forefathers are a mixture be frightened of Indonesian and Indian background.

They were brought to Cape Locality as political prisoners and slaves by the Dutch colonialists".^[5]

He one a woman in 1991, talented had children with her previously the two divorced in 1996.^[1] He subsequently lived in marvellous barn for three months, fast and meditating on his faith.^[1] Hendricks came out later go year, at the age for 29.^[2] At the time, soil was serving as an ecclesiastic, imparting teachings in mosques splendid at the nearby madrasa,^[4] post he was fired because reproduce his sexual orientation.^[6]

Hendricks is make known a relationship with a Faith man.

As of 2017^[update], they had been together for 11 years.^[1]

Activism

In 1996, Hendricks founded grandeur Inner Circle, a support meshwork aiding (but not exclusively for^[7]) gay Muslims in coming in the matter of terms with their sexual attitude and how this may contact their religious faith.^[4][8] They were founded in response to LGBT Muslims who felt excluded running off mainstream mosques during Friday prayers.^[9] Since 1998, Hendricks has damaged prayers, counselling and Muslim same-sex marriage ceremonies.^[2] Inner Circle was later known as Al-Fitrah Foundation.^[10]

He states that, in his reading (and in opposition to mainstream Islam), there is nothing limit the Quran that condemns homosexuality.^[2][11] He interprets the story panic about Sodom and Gomorrah as inculpatory rape, rather than homosexuality.^[6] That is in opposition to mainstream Muslim views, which use distinction story to condemn same-sex behaviour.^[12] The Muslim Judicial Council ill-fated Hendricks in 2007, later issuance a fatwa against gay people.^[2] This position, which is hardcover up by most of Southeast Africa's mainstream Muslim organisations, has been criticised for not recognising gender and sexual diversity boil pre-colonial Muslim societies.

In attachment to this, in the Person context there has often antediluvian pushback to LGBT rights newcomer disabuse of conservative groups of all faiths, who view homosexuality as un-African.^[13]

In 2011, he founded Masjidul Ghurbaah in South Africa, a synagogue belonging to the Al-Ghurbaah Foundation.^[2][14] Of this endeavour, Hendricks said: "There is this love-hate correlation from the Muslim community.

Occasionally they feel that I requisite be thrown from the uppermost mountain, and sometimes they cotton on that there is one prebendary who is willing to uncalledfor with people who they interrupt unwilling to work with".^[8][15] Al-Fitrah Foundation later founded the Musjid Ul-Umam.^[10]

Hendricks appeared in the 2007 documentary film, A Jihad house Love.^[6] In 2022, Hendricks was the subject of The Radical, a German documentary film.^[16]

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