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Muhsin Hendricks, the ‘world’s first gay imam’ wants to help LGBTQ+ Muslims in South Africa reconcile their sexuality with their faith

Muslim and gay? Most scholars consider homosexual acts unlawful – not so Muhsin Hendricks, who says that the Koran does not say that homosexuality is a sin. Jannis Hagmann spoke to the South African imam about Islam, homosexuality and Koranic interpretation

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A documentary feature film four years in the making is about to premiere at Africa’s foremost documentary festival, the Encounters International Documentary Film Festival.

The faith leaders also sought for countries to seek justice on behalf of the victims. The declaration was presented at the launch of the Global Interfaith Commission on LGBT+ Lives during a virtual conference hosted in the U.K. December 16. Jayne Ozanne, director of the commission, called the declaration a landmark. "Weve never had such a powerful, clear, and supportive statement from so many leaders," she told CNN. Nearly 400 religious leaders representing 10 religions from 35 countries signed...

Gay imam Muhsin Hendricks. (Facebook/ Muhsin Hendricks) A pioneering gay imam is teaching South African Muslims about sexuality and gender identity in Islam during the coronavirus pandemic. Imam Muhsin Hendricks, 53, was one of the first imams in the world to publicly come out as gay in 1998, according to In 2004 he founded The Inner Circle, a human rights organisation based in Cape Town which helps “Muslims who are queer to reconcile Islam with their sexuality” and gender identity. He als...

Views: Visits 11 When the pandemic hit, pioneering South African imam Muhsin Hendricks refashioned his gender and Islam workshops with virtual training and socially-distanced meet-ups JOHANNESBURG – It’s hard to pull up a chair and talk sex or fly imams over closed borders for gender training in a pandemic. But Imam Muhsin Hendricks wasn’t about to let COVID-19 destroy his carefully crafted Islamic training programme – he’d faced down too much else in his 53 years. One of the...