This odd article from the hard-left propaganda organ Teen Vogue (“Get ’em while they’re young” is apparently the motto) complains that “being a queer Muslim seems too complex for the world to handle.”
Which part of “the world,” exactly? Teen Vogue wouldn’t dream of telling you that the primary reason why “queer Muslims” are threatened is because of the Islamic holy book: “As for those of your women who are guilty of lewdness, call to witness four of you against them. And if they testify, then confine them to their houses until death takes them, or Allah finds another way for them.” (Qur’an 4:15)
This explanation of that passage is attributed to Muhammad’s companion Ibn Abbas: “The early ruling was confinement, until Allah sent down Surat An-Nur (sura 24) which abrogated that ruling with the ruling of flogging (for fornication) or stoning to death (for adultery).” If a woman is found guilty of adultery, she is to be stoned to death; if she is found guilty of fornication, she gets 100 lashes (cf. 24:2).
A later tradition has one of the people who are identified as Muhammad’s companions observing, “When the revelation descended upon the Messenger of Allah, it would affect him and his face would show signs of strain. One day, Allah sent down a revelation to him, and when the Messenger was relieved of its strain, he said, ‘Take from me: Allah has made some other way for them. The married with the married, the unmarried with the unmarried. The married gets a hundred lashes and stoning to death, while the unmarried gets a hundred lashes then banishment for a year.’”
Teen Vogue would never dare tell you any of this, for fear of being considered “Islamophobic.” Instead, it implies that the only problems “queer Muslims” face are from racist, redneck, “Islamophobic” yahoos in the U.S. As such, they are leading both non-Muslim and Muslim girls down a very risky path, risky in innumerable ways.
“Queer Muslim Heroes to Celebrate This Muslim Women’s Day,” by Zainab Almatwari, Teen Vogue, March 26, 2021 (thanks to Henry):
Many people might not think to put “queer” and “Muslim” in the same sentence. The two identities, some think, are like water and oil. But despite being left unrecognized, queer Muslims exist, and I am proof. In my journey to better understanding my identity, seeing and learning from other queer Muslims have been incredibly validating and reassuring. So, just to remind you that we’re here, we’re queer, and we’re not going anywhere, I compiled a list of queer Muslim heroes:
Fariha Róisín
As a writer, the minute I started questioning my sexuality I ran to Google to look for other queer writers. Writing has become a source of flourishing comfort, and there was something pivotal about finding familiarity in pieces by and about the intersectional struggles of a queer Muslim person.
After many searches, I luckily stumbled upon How To Cure a Ghost by Fariha Róisín.
With its purple cover and dedication to her ammu and abbu, I saw myself reflected in Róisín’s words….
Zaina Arafat
Zaina Arafat is an LGBTQ Arab/Muslim writer who authored the novel You Exist Too Much. Arafat’s work intersects genres, but her novel is an unlimited space for those whose identities have always been too uncomfortable for society — something I instantly connected with. When being a queer Muslim seems too complex for the world to handle, You Exist Too Much is a testimony as otherwise. There is nothing more of an attestation to our narratives than an LGBTQ Muslim author with a bisexual Palestinian-American main character….
Tayah is another Queer Muslim woman whose fight against societal standards is far from conventional. Our friendship started with a compliment of each other’s Hijabs and grew quickly to deep discussions about how Queer Muslim figures existed in all Muslim spaces thousands of years ago.
To them both, thank you for being my roots. I know holding my hand or guiding me through anything isn’t easy, but you both managed to lock hands with me as I retraced my steps.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Moslem Women’s Day? Hmm, this is where one is supposed to make a humorous comparison, a simile as in “Moslem Women’s Day is like…” Well, here goes:
Moslem Women’s Day is like Quadriplegic Who Are Professional Fitness Trainers Day, but sexier.
Let’s call it Moslima Day. Moslima Day shows the way… to freedom ixnay.
Quazgaa says
Reminds one about the movie The Onion, with its International diving contest for the comatose.
Infidel says
Teen Vogue just fired Alexi McCammond, their youngest twenty-something editor for past racist and homophobic tweets, even before she started, after she had left her previous job at Axios when her affair w/ TJ Ducklo was exposed. So now both she and TJ Ducklo are w/o a job, so they are both free to resume their dating activities. Just don’t go to Egypt, or she’ll be killed by the doorman and the guy next door
Back to Teen Vogue: here is what they should do. Given how woke they are, they should do a fact-finding tour in a few cities in the Middle East – Istanbul, Gaza, Cairo, Teheran, Kabul and Lahore. Find out what the condition of lesbians there are like (if they can find any courageous enough to leave the closet), and then celebrate them w/ their names redacted. That’s assuming their covers don’t get blown – in a manner of speaking – by the moral police in those countries
tgusa says
This will go over well. I guess they are playing the game, lets enrage musilms, and we all know that is not very hard to do. In related news I heard the editors are preparing to go in to hiding.
gravenimage says
Teen Vogue presents ‘Queer Muslim Heroes to Celebrate This Muslim Women’s Day’
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These Queer Muslims will not be celebrated in the Muslim world. Queers are either tossed off buildings or, in the case of Lesbian women, often forced into marriages with Muslim men. The only place they have a chance is in the Infidel West, *not* in Dar-al-Islam.
In fact, “Muslim Women’s Day” itself was created in the West–and it is *not* about women’s rights, but was created to oppose Trump’s “Muslim ban” of immigration from Jihad terror states.
https://www.bustle.com/life/what-is-muslim-womens-day-march-27-celebrates-this-marginalized-community
JS says
Intolerance is apparently the one thing Islam, Evangelical Christianity and Orthodox Judaism can all agree on.
Eur says
Islam has all the bad of other religions. The good that Islam can have also exists wn other religions, ideologies or thoughts. In short, Islam has not contributed anything new that has been good, it has copied and inherited all the bad and horrible from other Abrahamic religions and has contributed many other horrible things that they did not have.
gravenimage says
JS is a moron. Evengelical Christians and Orthodox Jews are not murdering Gay people, nor are they cheering pious Muslims doing so. Ludicrous false moral equivalency.
Andrew Blackadder says
Last Summer, maybe the Summer before that, a small group gathered and were all carrying signs stating GAYS AGAINST SHARIA and people started shouting and spitting at them, calling them racist, islamophobes and all that other jive….and this was outside London England…. go figure…
In Malaysia it is illegally for two men to have sex with each other, sodomy gets ya serious Prison time, which seems rather weird considering what goes on in Prisons, however, two women having sex with each other is NOT illegal..go figure…
gravenimage says
Andrew, your idea that Lesbian sex is legal in Malaysia is mistaken:
“Women caned in Malaysia for attempting to have lesbian sex”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/03/women-caned-in-malaysia-for-attempting-to-have-lesbian-sex
Of course, the penalties are even greater in many parts of Dar-al-Islam.
Glynnda White says
WOW! DO YOU THINK ANY OF THE QUEER MUSLIM HEROES ARE STILL ALIVE? Methinks the Muslims are beginning to be less and less useful to the left in this nation….if this keeps up we will start hearing about little girls getting their reproductive parts mutilated and honor killings again (both still occurring on a regular basis in the US, just not being reported)…as GOV Cuomo when they begin finding fault with you….it’s just a matter of time til you’re “Under the Bus”….
Is there an election year coming up or somthing?
gravenimage says
They are only still alive because they are in the free West.
Unbeliever1 says
I’ll bet my life that none of those queer individuals named in the Teen Vogue article live in a Muslim country.
gravenimage says
Yep.
Sun says
Right, and the majority of the journalists didn’t live there either.
OLD GUY says
Being a queer muslim is a death sentence.