The legalisation of same-sex marriage in the United States will do very little to diminish the deep-rooted homophobia in this country.
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Samar Habib’s edited two volumes Islam and Homosexuality (2009) and Khaled El-Rouayheb’s Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800 (2009) are examples of such groundbreaking work. Over the last few decades, a number of groundbreaking works of scholarship have richly enhanced our understanding of the history of sexuality among Muslims. Leading scholars of this field such as Joseph Massad have radically contested the manner in which what he terms “gay international” has imperially dominated the variety of homoerotic domains in Arab and Muslim history. The history of sexuality, and its radical reconfigurations from medieval to modern times, need to enter the debates. Preferably, we would see these discussions within major Muslim countries such as Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, and Malaysia.
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What we need is a sustained course of community-wide debates among all Muslims, and not just on the Internet. The decline of turbaned clerical authority among Muslims worldwide does not amount to the rise of authority among the self-styled US Muslim “celebrities” with a sleek PR agent and a Madison Avenue hairdo.
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These two sides, self-appointed “leaders” and “celebrities”, are both out-to-lunch and have no business issuing such fatwas beyond their own singular opinion on the matter and speak for nothing and no one beyond themselves. Inside Story Americas – A major victory for gay equality?Īt the forefront of these two extreme positions, we see a band of clean-shaven yuppie US Muslims eager to appease their White-American constituency issuing their “fatwa”, as it were, encouraging Muslims to embrace the Supreme Court decision, while most their bearded and turbaned counterparts on the opposite side of the isle issue dissenting fatwas against such reconciliations.