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Homosexuality in the Muslim community


I was wondering what your thoughts are about this realistically?

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its huge in afghanistan except the adult men are raping tea boys

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/1011693/bacha-bazi-afghan-subculture-of-child-sex-slaves
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His foundation lies in the holy mountains. Selah.

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Wow, I have no words right now. This is just heart-wrenching!
"Women are for child-rearing, boys are for pleasure" is a common saying across many parts of Afghanistan. I have never heard this before. And their biggest concern was that it might break the UN agreement? Not the fact that the destitute are selling their children to be raped and passed around? I pray for mercy and forgiveness. The whole world is turning into a Sodom and Gomorrah.

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Your prayers for mercy and forgiveness are part of the problem. Quit using an ancient fairy tale for your moral compass. That's exactly the problem not the solution. Raping children is wrong despite what your "holy book" and just about every "holy book" would lead you to believe.

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I do not think my beliefs are part of the problem at all. Me asking God to forgive them has nothing to do with them acting either on impulse or tradition. I also think you stating that my beliefs are an ancient fairytale providing me a moral compass is halfway true. It is a moral compass. Thank you for your reply.

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It's moral compass if you believe women are little more than property. If you believe women are equal though, that book is highly immoral.

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Why wish for mercy and forgiveness for rapists, pedophiles, and the like?

Do they deserve it?

Maybe wish for them to stop. Pray for it, that's fine. However, don't make the assumption that your prayers are doing anything. If you want to do something for, well, anything, act towards changing it. Don't just make yourself feel like you are doing something by praying.

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Not just in Afghanistan, a lot of other Arab countries have a culture of pederasty. It is sort of a hypocrisy: since they are not allowed to have sex before marriage, it doesn't count if it's with a male.

Fighting a religious war is like fighting over whose imaginary friend is better.

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Not to mention sex with goats. It's huge, in Turkey in particular.

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Realistically, there is no place for homosexuality in Islam. Or gender equality. Or freedom of speech. Or choice of any kind. It's basically Nazism.

And don't let yourself get fooled by the idea of 'moderate Islam'. A very small minority in the West could be viewed as liberal, but the vast majority is fundamentalist.

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the vast majority is fundamentalist.


That's interesting. Do you have any peer reviewed studies on that?

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Realistically, there is no place for homosexuality in Islam. Or gender equality. Or freedom of speech. Or choice of any kind. It's basically Nazism


You sure you aren't describing Christianity and Judaism? lol

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LOL indeed. A christian will pray for you, a muslim will throw you off a tall building and a jew coined this phrase.

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Wow good thing you added the lol to such an idiotic statement.

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Idiotic how? Show me where is officially accepted in Christianity and Judaism? Show me gender equality in either one as well? Are allowed to question the Bible and was taught by either one... etc.. etc..

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Are you one of those ideologically blinded progressive donkeys? Cultural relativism and its false analogies are a thing of the past.

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And don't let yourself get fooled by the idea of 'moderate Islam'. A very small minority in the West could be viewed as liberal, but the vast majority is fundamentalist.



Not true---the fundamentalists don't represent ALL Muslims--in fact, they're been known to off Muslims who disagree with them on anything. To claim that ALL Muslims are fundamentalists is like saying that all Christians are nuts want to burn down abortion clinics.

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"It's their tradition to protect their guests."


I dont know about traditions regarding extremist groupss like the Taliban, ISIS etc and dont wish to experience them, but if he was referring to Pashtunwali which is the ethical code of the Pashtun people then he was correct.

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In the Arab world, the caliphate kill gays by tossing them from top of buildings to their deaths.

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In most Muslim countries its illegal to be gay.

In most of those its "just" a prison sentence. Although all of the 10 countries that execute people for being gay are Islamic.

Even in the so called moderate countries, its not a good idea to come out of the closet.

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That is what I thought.

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just like any religious hypocrites they don't do it in the open.

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Why would it not be realistic that there be Homosexuals?
Statistically speaking, there have to be, even if they're not out in the open.

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