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The
unhappy search for the "gay" Muslim
Alexander
Baron
As
anyone who has criticised Zionism, we’ve been accused of being
anti-Semitic, and now we are likely to be called homophobic too, for
not conceding that homosexuality is a normal condition and simply a
matter of choice. However, as our guest writer Alexander Baron points
out in his article in this issue, these are smear terms coined to
discredit and bereft of any real meaning. People who disagree with
homosexuality are not afraid of homosexuals, as the term homophobia
would imply, they are disgusted by them. Nor is there anything gay
about the unhealthy and unstable lifestyles of members of the
vociferous GLBT (Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transsexual) movement.
So
why do we concern ourselves with them in this issue of Common Sense?
All too often have Muslims in the West closed their eyes and buried
their heads in the sand vis-à-vis the civilisational diseases
surrounding us, hoping and praying that they were somehow immune to
them. Ignoring a problem does not make it go away, and the problem of
homosexual propaganda and intimidation must be addressed rather than
ignored or laughed off. Young people especially are vulnerable and
more susceptible to propaganda. The Muslim youth are confused and
unsure of their identity, they have dabbled into rap music and drug
culture, they are experimenting with relationships, whilst their
elders pretend that all is fine as long as they continue flattering
each other at the mosque about the great services they render to the
community. Our youth are a welcome prey to ill-meaning people with an
agenda.
In
the past “gay rights” campaigners limited themselves to trying to
make Muslims feel bad for not understanding and for “victimising”
them. Muslim speakers at universities were asked to give an
undertaking that they would not say anything considered prejudicial to
people with a different “sexual orientation”. In the old one rule
for one, another rule for another tradition, non-Muslim speakers were
never asked not to offend Muslim sensitivities during their lectures.
Muslim bashing remains the acceptable face of anti-Semitism.
On
an international level a similar approach brought repeated attempts to
have an unnatural sexual orientation enshrined as a human right. Once
this concept were accepted, UN support programmes or any other
assistance could then be tied to the condition placed upon the
recipient party to safeguard this “human right”. Thus, bullying
and bribery remain the most potent means of changing the minds of
people who refuse to be convinced by a spurious argument.
Meanwhile,
the movement feels confident enough to target the Muslim community
more directly, very much in the same way as they have already broken
the resistance of the Catholic Church, for example. The high-profile
reporting of homosexual priests portrays Christian opposition to such
unnatural practices as hypocritical. If Muslims could be made to
“come out”, or be exposed, as homosexuals, the persistent
opposition of Muslims as a whole might equally be broken.
A
cursory search of the internet, this hotchpotch of truths,
half-truths, and the bizarre shows a growing presence of such
attempts. It also shows the increased confidence of those who want to
undermine and pervert Islamic teachings. There is, for example, a
group called “Queer Jihad”, which used to be run by a Sulaiman X,
a self-styled admirer of Malcolm X with Buddhist leanings. His
approach was one of pleading for “tolerance” for Muslims who
“discovered” that they were gay or lesbian, advocating a
non-physical “love” relationship between Muslim members of the
same sex attracted to each other whilst acknowledging the opposition
of Islamic teachings to such a relationship. He obviously realised
that a religion which does not even condone heterosexual casual
relationships and insists on marriage as a precondition for intimacy
would hardly be lenient towards members of the same sex living in sin
together.
This
“pioneer” of the Muslim branch of the homosexual movement has now
been replaced by a former Baptist convert to homosexual Islam who has
come with his own agenda. From the plea for tolerance of his
predecessor this advocate of the homosexual lifestyle has moved to
dabbling into the interpretation of Qur’an and Hadith and trying to
make the case that homosexuality is Islamically acceptable per se. The
people of Lot were not destroyed simply because they were homosexual,
but because they tried to force themselves with lust upon others who
were not, he argues. It’s the public rape they were guilty of, not
the same sex activity amongst each other. He goes further trying to
construe from a selection of Hadith that homosexuality was an accepted
practice at the time of the prophet, provided that those engaged in it
did not intend to marry a member of the opposite sex at a later stage.
Absurd
as all this may sound, it is a poison administered at a time where the
new generation of Muslims are no longer well versed in the teachings
and source texts of Islam and obtain much of their information from
the world wide web. Unless one understands that this is a concerted
propagandistic effort by a well-organised and funded movement, not
just the “queer” ramblings of a few eccentric and deranged people,
there is a real danger that the certainties of faith will be eroded as
has happened in the case of other religions.
The
“gay” lobby in this country is powerful enough to force a
leadership debate in the Conservative Party. Public sympathy for
homosexuals is not as common as the propaganda suggests, but neither
is there much sympathy for Muslims. Just as the British National Party
joined the convenient bandwagon of anti-Muslim sentiment to pursue its
racist agenda, the homosexual movement will find this an opportune
time for attacking Islam’s “homophobia”. To withstand this
onslaught, we must address the issues in an informed way and avoid
being apologetic.
[From Common Sense (Nov 02), magazine of the Islamic
Party of Britain]
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