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Christian pastor arrested for faith and then freed from Turkish prison.
- Thread starter YeshuaRedeemed
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YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
I am meaning worldwide. American Muslim sentiments are almost irrelevant.
Of course. Wouldn't want your narrative to be ruined.
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
Are you seriously going to pretend that ant-gay sentiments are not a hallmark of the Muslim world and Islamic theology?Of course. Wouldn't want your narrative to be ruined.
There's nothing to pretend about. Islamic culture and homosexuality have a complicated history. It's not a black or white thing. The Islamic world was more permissible towards homosexuality than Christian Europe tended to be, for certain. There's still a lot of male homosexuality and pederasty in those cultures, such as Afghanistan and Pakistan. Much of this anti-gay stuff in some Islamic countries is a leftover from European colonialism, the same as what happened throughout Africa and Southeast Asia, as well as a result of fundamentalist movements coming to power that enforce hardline views of Islam which are actually more modern.
"However, homosexual relationships were generally tolerated in pre-modern Islamic societies,[3][4] and historical record suggests that these laws were invoked infrequently, mainly in cases of rape or other "exceptionally blatant infringement on public morals".[5] Homoerotic themes were cultivated in poetry and other literary genres written in major languages of the Muslim world from the eighth century into the modern era.[6][4] The conceptions of homosexuality found in classical Islamic texts resemble the traditions of Graeco-Roman antiquity, rather than modern Western notions of sexual orientation.[5][7] It was expected that many or most mature men would be sexually attracted to both women and male adolescents (variously defined), and men were expected to wish to play only an active role in homosexual intercourse once they reached adulthood.[5][7]"
LGBT in Islam - Wikipedia
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sp...tolerant-of-homosexuality-than-you-think/amp/
How homosexuality became a crime in the Middle East
Pederasty in Afghan culture: Bacha bazi - Wikipedia