I am a Canadian ex-Muslim living with Islam’s formal and informal death penalty for apostasy. In Part 5 of this series of articles, I will address the impermissibility of homosexuality in Islamic theology and law.
Here are links to Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of this series of articles.
Same-gender sex is considered to be a grave sin in Islamic theology, and most schools of Islamic law prescribe death to gays. The death penalty for homosexuality under the Sharia is derived partially from what are considered by the majority of Muslims to be among the most authentic Hadith collections (the saying and doings of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam).
In the Hadiths below, we find Muhammad calling for his followers to “Turn them (gays) out of your houses,” and prescribing the killing of gay folks:
Sahih Bukhari: Volume 7, Book 72, Number 774:
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas:
The Prophet cursed effeminate men (those men who are in the similitude (assume the manners of women) and those women who assume the manner of men, and he said, “Turn them out of your houses.” The Prophet turned out such-and-such man, and ‘Umar turned out such-and-such woman.
Abu Dawud (4462) – The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him said, “Whoever you find doing the action of the people of Lot, execute the one who does it and the one to whom it is done.”
Abu Dawud (4448) – “If a man who is not married is seized committing sodomy, he will be stoned to death.”
The Qur’an, Islam’s supposedly perfect holy book, is replete with hatred toward gays and condemnations of the homosexual lifestyle. When ISIS members throw gays off roof tops and LGBTQ folks are tortured in Islamic Sharia Gulag-style prisons, their captors are most certainly reading from the Qur’an and Muhammad’s hadith and the laws of Sharia pertaining to homosexuality, and not from some random romance novel.
In the details of the Qur’an’s description of the “People of Lot,” taken from Biblical stories, we see that the Islamic holy book considers the People of Lot to be a lecherous people deserving of death. Therefore it is not unreasonable to conclude that the Qur’an not only condemns homosexuality, but quite possibly prohibits it. Regardless, the Qur’anic passages below, and the hadiths listed above, clearly continue to inspire and instruct the murder of untold numbers of gay folks across the Islamic world and the Muslim community elsewhere in this relatively modern year of 2018.
Q 4:16: two men among you are guilty of lewdness, punish them both. If they repent and amend, Leave them alone; for Allah is Oft-returning, Most Merciful.
Q 7:80: We also (sent) Lut: He said to his people: “Do ye commit lewdness such as no people in creation (ever) committed before you? For ye practise your lusts on men in preference to women : ye are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds. And his people gave no answer but this: they said, “Drive them out of your city: these are indeed men who want to be clean and pure!” But we saved him and his family, except his wife: she was of those who legged behind. And we rained down on them a shower (of brimstone): Then see what was the end of those who indulged in sin and crime!
Q 26:165: Of all the creatures in the world, will ye approach males, And leave those whom Allah has created for you to be your mates? Nay, ye are a people transgressing (all limits)!” They said: “If thou desist not, O Lut! thou wilt assuredly be cast out!” He said: “I do detest your doings. O my Lord! deliver me and my family from such things as they do!” So We delivered him and his family,- all Except an old woman who lingered behind. Then afterward We destroyed the others. We rained down on them a shower (of brimstone): and evil was the shower on those who were admonished (but heeded not)!
Q 27:54: (We also sent) Lut (as a messenger): behold, He said to his people, “Do ye do what is shameful though ye see (its iniquity)? Would ye really approach men in your lusts rather than women? Nay, ye are a people (grossly) ignorant! But his people gave no other answer but this: they said, “Drive out the followers of Lut from your city: these are indeed men who want to be clean and pure!” Then We saved him and his household save his wife; We destined her to be of those who stayed behind. And We rained down on them a shower (of brimstone): and evil was the shower on those who were admonished (but heeded not)!
Q 29:28: And (remember) Lut: behold, he said to his people: “Ye do commit lewdness, such as no people in Creation (ever) committed before you. “Do ye indeed approach men, and cut off the highway?- and practise wickedness (even) in your councils?” But his people gave no answer but this: they said: “Bring us the Wrath of Allah if thou tellest the truth.” He said: “O my Lord! help Thou me against people who do mischief!” When Our Messengers came to Abraham with the good news, they said: “We are indeed going to destroy the people of this township: for truly they are (addicted to) crime.“
Walter Sieruk says
This is ,again ,a reminder of the “joke that is not actually meant to be funny but to make a point. So here is it.
There is something to the semi-joke about the different kinds of negative kind of behavior of a Fundamentalist Baptist Christian male and the kind of behavior of a Fundamentalist Salafist Muslim male when they encounter, at different times, a homosexual man. For when a Fundamentalist Baptist Christian man meets a “gay” man, that type of Christian will say many very ignorant things to him and as a result of those ignorant things said that “gay” man will end up with a headache. In contrast, when a Fundamentalist Salafist Muslim man encounters a homosexual man, that type of Muslim will cut that “gay” man’s head off.
Walter Sieruk says
The tile of this message is well put if it would be “homosexuals in Iran” and not “Homosexuals who live in Iran.” For many of them are six feet under in Iran as in dead and buried. As exposed in a book by a former Muslims .Which reveals that “Estimates by human rights activists and opponents of the Islamic Republic of Iran of the number of gay men and lesbian s executed for crimes related to their sexual orientation since 1979 vary between several hundred to as many as six thousand. According to the Boroumand Foundation, records exist for at least 107 executions with charges related to homosexuality between 1979 and 1990 . Iran is one of the eight countries in the world when homosexual acts are punishable by death; all are Islamic. According to a 2013 report from the IHRDC:” [1]
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq, page 340.
Krishna says
Iran must be charged crimes against humanity for carrying genocide against homosexuals
Mac-101 says
Abu Dawud (4448) – “If a man who is not married is seized committing sodomy, he will be stoned to death.”
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So what happens to a married man committing sodomy?
Michael Copeland says
Ayatollah Khomeini explains:
If a man sodomises the son, brother, or father of his wife after their marriage, the marriage remains valid.
http://www.hotheads.com.au
Mac-101 says
That is almost as good as Ayatollah Khomeini’s quote from his Little Green Book “If someone has sex with his camel, goat or donkey he can NOT sell it in his village but MUST sell it in another!” LOL!
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It’s amassing that the entire media is almost wholly controlled by a certain people who Islam is dedicated to wipe off the face of the earth, yet these things are things that can NOT be spoken of!
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Why do THEY protect the very people who are dedicated to killin THEM all. As the ME saying goes, 1st the Saturday People, then the Sunday people. Yet our leaders can NOT git enough Oil Tick or Chi-Com money! Does not anyone care about the future of their children?
abad says
Is George Takei still singing the praises of Islam?
Krishna says
All abrahamic religion condemn homosexuality but Islam is always rigid and genocidal in nature when it comes to dealing with homosexuality
Bob Carrillo says
Their own words condemn them, and those of their-not-so-fearless leader as well.
“The Crusades” (a number of them) was the answer back then. Well, they’re back!
Thomas Jefferson saw it coming. That is why he actually read their “book”.. Winston Churchill, and others did as well.
…They’re back! …transplanted all over Minnesota, and all around the U.S., Canada, Western Europe, the UK, Australia, and more now.
In fact, thanks to the morons who have infected OUR political systems, OUR Law Enforcement systems, OUR Courts, they are now, RIGHT NEXT DOOR.. ..”Grifters”…”Sleepers”…ALL..and just biding their time…
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Saleem Smith, as you ought to know there is a crisis of knowledge on morality, what is morally wrong and what is morally right,it is subjective. Ie, what one may consider morally wrong or right, another may consider it otherwise.Then you have to have a standard. who will set the standard? Can another human being set the standard? In Islam, God who is All-knowing is the best to set the standard of what is good and what is bad ,because He know the nature of human and He is unbiased. Hence, the sharia compliant code of conduct that guarantees an ideal society. sharia has been proven to be the most effective mechanism in regulating human conducts. The interesting thing about sharia is that it is flexible to respond to emerging problems.
So, homosexuality deserves stiffer punishment because it against the law of nature that sex even among beasts means union between male and female sex organs, not the same sex relationship .Similarly,such sexual relationship shall be confined to married couples, not indiscriminately,in order to protect human dignity and sanctity of family system.
Saleem Smith,you lied to say Sharia discriminates or oppresses women. How?
gravenimage says
The vile Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
Saleem Smith, as you ought to know there is a crisis of knowledge on morality, what is morally wrong and what is morally right,it is subjective. Ie, what one may consider morally wrong or right, another may consider it otherwise.Then you have to have a standard. who will set the standard? Can another human being set the standard? In Islam, God who is All-knowing is the best to set the standard of what is good and what is bad ,because He know the nature of human and He is unbiased.
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In other words, the vile Ibrahim itace muhammed wants to murder those he accuses of being gay.
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Hence, the sharia compliant code of conduct that guarantees an ideal society. sharia has been proven to be the most effective mechanism in regulating human conducts.
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Ibrahim itace muhammed considers amputating the limbs of petty thieves, flogging those who take a sip of alcohol, murdering anyone who dares criticize Islam, and stoning rape victims to death to be “ideal”.*Ugh*.
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The interesting thing about sharia is that it is flexible to respond to emerging problems.
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“Flexible”? Is this a reference to Iran using cranes to hang gay people, instead of using them in construction as civilized Infidels do?
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So, homosexuality deserves stiffer punishment because it against the law of nature that sex even among beasts means union between male and female sex organs, not the same sex relationship .Similarly,such sexual relationship shall be confined to married couples, not indiscriminately,in order to protect human dignity and sanctity of family system.
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Ibrahim itace muhammed believes that hanging non-violent people, stoning them to death, and throwing them off tall buildings “protects human dignity”. Appalling.
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Saleem Smith,you lied to say Sharia discriminates or oppresses women. How?
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Note that Ibrahim itace muhammed himself has said that little girls should be mutilated, that no child is too young to be married off to some old man, that forced marriage is fine, that anyone marrying for love should be killed, that women are legally worth half of what men are, that Muslims can beat and rape their wives, that polygamy is Islamic, that the “Triple Talaq” summary divorce of women is fine, that “Honor Killing” is allowed, that Muslims have the right to rape Infidel women in Jihad and keep them as sex slaves, and that women suspected of “Zina” can be stoned to death by ravening mobs.
But as a pious Muslim, he does not consider any of these horrors oppressive of the victims.
Saleem Smith says
A Woman Under Sharia: 8 Reasons Why Islamic Law Endangers Women:
1. Under Sharia, Wives Can Be Beaten.
2. Under Sharia, Females Enjoy Fewer Rights than Males.
3. Under Sharia, Marriage and Sexual Intercourse with Pre-Pubescent Girls is Permissible.
4. Under Sharia, Wives do not Share the Same Divorce Rights as Their Husbands.
5. Under Sharia, Female Rulers are Frowned Upon.
6. Under Sharia, Wives Should be Subservient to their Husbands.\
7. Under Sharia, Women are Deemed Lacking in Faith and Intelligence.
8. Under Sharia, Raping Female Captives is Permissible.
https://counterjihad.com/women
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Saleem Smith, your reference is no more than the normal proganda campaigns against Islam, it has not explained the strigent conditions under sharia before they are applied. In fact slavery is not a religious duty that a Muslim has own a slave and even where one has chosen to practice it , it affect male and female and there are strigent conditions for him to do so. The Quran discourages muslims from It by asking muslims to free slaves to get abundant rewards. Beating rude wife is just symbolic because any beating resulting injury is not allowed and Prophet Muhammad said it is a sign of low religiousness to resort to beating wife, the holy Prophet Muhammad never beat any of his wives.
Saleem read sharia books, it is even more favourable to women than men.
gravenimage says
Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
Saleem Smith, your reference is no more than the normal proganda campaigns against Islam, it has not explained the strigent conditions under sharia before they are applied.
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Are there *really* “strigent” conditions before these are applied?
Let’s see:
1. Under Sharia, Wives Can Be Beaten.
Qur’an 4:34 affirms this. What are the conditions here? A man can beat his wife if he so much as fears disobedience from her. Then, he has to threaten her, send her to a bed apart, and then he can start beating her.
That doesn’t sound all that stringent to me.
2. Under Sharia, Females Enjoy Fewer Rights than Males.
Well, this is true. Under Shari’ah, women are not able to work outside the home, see others, travel, of even leave the house without the permission of their “Mehram”. No conditions to this at all, save being born female.
3. Under Sharia, Marriage and Sexual Intercourse with Pre-Pubescent Girls is Permissible.
Ibrahim itace muhammed *himself* has affirmed this one, saying that no child is too young to be married off.
Certainly, on sees this throughout the Muslim world.
4. Under Sharia, Wives do not Share the Same Divorce Rights as Their Husbands.
This is certainly true. Men can simply intone the “Triple Talaq”, where women have to find an Imam at a Shari’ah court that will grant her a divorce. Given that Shari’ah judges often send wives who are being abused and threatened with “Honor Killing” back to their abusers, they don’t often have much luck.
And–again–this is mainstream Shari’ah. No special conditions at all.
5. Under Sharia, Female Rulers are Frowned Upon.
This is obviously the case–one of the very few female leaders–Benazir Bhutto–was assassinated.
6. Under Sharia, Wives Should be Subservient to their Husbands.
This is codified in Islam. Again, no stringent conditions, or conditions of any kind.
7. Under Sharia, Women are Deemed Lacking in Faith and Intelligence.
Also mainstream Islam. Here is one Hadith:
Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
Once Allah’s Apostle went out to the Musalla (to offer the prayer) o ‘Id-al-Adha or Al-Fitr prayer. Then he passed by the women and said, “O women! Give alms, as I have seen that the majority of the dwellers of Hell-fire were you (women).” They asked, “Why is it so, O Allah’s Apostle ?” He replied, “You curse frequently and are ungrateful to your husbands. I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religion than you. A cautious sensible man could be led astray by some of you.” The women asked, “O Allah’s Apostle! What is deficient in our intelligence and religion?” He said, “Is not the evidence of two women equal to the witness of one man?” They replied in the affirmative. He said, “This is the deficiency in her intelligence. Isn’t it true that a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menses?” The women replied in the affirmative. He said, “This is the deficiency in her religion.”
Sahih Bukhari 1:6:301
There are many more–and this applies to all women.
8. Under Sharia, Raping Female Captives is Permissible.
Ibrahim itace muhammed does actually attempt to address this horror. He wrote:
In fact slavery is not a religious duty that a Muslim has own a slave and even where one has chosen to practice it , it affect male and female and there are strigent conditions for him to do so.
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Of course, no one said that Muslims *have to* engage in slavery and sex slavery, but that they can. In fact, the “Prophet” Muhammed himself enslaved and raped his victims and used them as sex slaves.
And his claim that slavery effects male and female victims is disingenuous–unless he is admitting that Muslims rape men as much as they do women?
Ibrahim itace muhammed *himself* has affirmed that Muslims can rape Infidel women and children and use them as sex slaves.
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The Quran discourages muslims from It by asking muslims to free slaves to get abundant rewards.
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How can Muslims take advantage of these abundant rewards if they are not enslaving new victims? There is nothing in Islam that suggests Muslims should not be enslaving new victims. In fact, the “Prophet” did this all the time, once beheading up to 900 men and enslaving the surviving women and children of the tribe.
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Beating rude wife is just symbolic because any beating resulting injury is not allowed and Prophet Muhammad said it is a sign of low religiousness to resort to beating wife, the holy Prophet Muhammad never beat any of his wives.
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Do Muslim women have the right to “symbolically” beat their husbands if they fear their being rude?
Of course not. So Islam does indeed discriminate against them.
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Saleem read sharia books, it is even more favourable to women than men.
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Is that so? In what possible way? Note that Ibrahim itace muhammed is unable to cite even a single example.
Really, his problem is not that Saleem Smith knows too little about Islam, but that he knows too much.
gravenimage says
Important list, Saleem Smith.
Indiana Tom says
So having sex with boys and animals is okay, but the men are off limits?
gravenimage says
Pretty much. Islam hates consensual relationships of any kind.
Indiana Tom says
Soo if the Liberals have to decide in who they are going to throw under the bus, Muslims or Homosexuals, which way do you think they will go? From what I have seen, I am going to say the Homosexuals will be flying off the buildings like Superman.
mortimer says
The mainstream media, one must conclude, are AMORAL. They cannot decide that it’s wrong when Muslims commit crimes against humanity. They know it’s amoral if NAZIS commit crimes against humanity.
Their inconsistency in ethics mean that the mainstream media and Leftards in general are UNETHICAL and generally AMORAL with no fixed principles they will not bend.
They claim ‘It isn’t a crime when Muslims do it.’
Noel Anderson says
What about the char waha boys in Afghanistan…..It’s the islamic’s that use them and pervert them, what a pack of barbaric backward hypocrites these islamics are….
gravenimage says
The rule of thumb in Islam seems to be that pedophilia of young boys and homosexual rape to humiliate are fine–but any consensual same sex relationship should see the murder of those involved.
God, I hate Islam.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Liar Gravenimage considers indiscriminate sex outside marriage and homosexuality as good according to the standard set by Satan god mithraist christians Call Holy Spirit. O my God Allah i hate the satan the source of all evils and bad smells!!
gravenimage says
Note that Ibrahim itace muhammed does not say what I said that was supposedly untrue. But he never does; apparently he thinks that calling me “Liar Gravenimage” takes the place of any proof.
As for myself, I will have been with my husband for thirty years next month, and have always been completely faithful. But this is true because I love him; not because I fear being “Honor Killed” if I was not.
Whereas, the foul Ibrahim itace muhammed has affirmed child marriage, forced marriage, polygamy, rape, and sex slavery as all being perfectly Islamic. He has also said that anyone who marries for love should be murdered.
And only thugs like this one consider opposing the murder of people accused of being gay to be “the satan”. *Ugh*.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Liar Gravenimage considers indiscriminate sex outside marriage and homosexuality as good according to the standard set by Satan god mithraist christians Call Holy Spirit. o my God Allah, i hate the satan mithraist christians Call Holy Spirit the source of all evils and bad smells!!
Joy DB says
Ibrahim, you’re so far up the ass of pisslam you don’t know a damn thing! Since men & women sit separately at most -if not all – Islam social gatherings, it’s OK to eff boys (pubescent), but not adult men (who know what’s really going on!). The hypocrisy is mind-blowing! Wonder if the AIDS/HIV plague hit Muslim men in the same or greater proportion to the general population?
David says
Joy, remember this: DAWAM. that stands for Don’t argue with a Muslim. It is a complete waste of time and effort, however tempting that might be. it is like pissing into the wind.
Mac-101 says
Good question about the rate of VD among devout Muslims compared to the rate among devout Christians. Or compare ME rates of STDs with Africa/Black African Muslim and the USA as a whole. Bet it would be interesting!
gravenimage says
Now Ibrahim itace muhamed is just spamming. He always does that when he gets excited–as here, where he is imagining murdering victims he thinks might be gay.
Charles Pitts says
A darn good question. A quick internet garnered several articles of interest — 1.) http://www.meforum.org/articles/2015/the-strategic-implications-of-iran-s-std-epidemic, 2.)www.vice.com/en_us/article/wd68ka/hiv-in-the-islamic-world, 3.)bigthink.com/strange-maps/does-islam-prevent-aids
J.W.K. says
And yet they refer to young boys as pearls and practice disgusting pedophilia! Wow.
Roderick MacUalraig says
Ah, Saleem. Good to see articles written by yourself aboard JW. Brilliant man. And always good for a laugh. Still cleaning cock with pages of the “Holy” Quran?
Brilliant man. Freedom fighter.
gravenimage says
+1