My latest in PJ Media:
Fresh from its racism controversy, the hard-left propaganda organ Teen Vogue (“Get ’em while they’re young” is apparently the motto) appears to be going for a death fatwa, publishing an article Friday entitled “Queer Muslim Heroes to Celebrate This Muslim Women’s Day,” by Zainab Almatwari. Almatwari is a Muslim, but clearly one with views so heterodox that she could easily arouse the murderous ire of many of her coreligionists around the globe. Teen Vogue is doubtless oblivious to the risk it is taking in publishing such an article; the chance to advance “Islamophobia” victimhood propaganda was just too good to pass up.
“Many people,” Almatwari informs us, “might not think to put ‘queer’ and ‘Muslim’ in the same sentence. The two identities, some think, are like water and oil.” She doesn’t explain why this perception exists but gives the strong impression that the problem comes from “Islamophobes” who misunderstand the truly benign and progressive teachings of the cuddly Religion of Peace: “But despite being left unrecognized, queer Muslims exist, and I am proof. In my journey to better understanding my identity, seeing and learning from other queer Muslims have been incredibly validating and reassuring. So, just to remind you that we’re here, we’re queer, and we’re not going anywhere, I compiled a list of queer Muslim heroes.”
“We’re here, we’re queer, and we’re not going anywhere” is sloganeering that gay individuals and groups have used in the West to rebuke and defy alleged “homophobia.” Few, if any, have ever dared to chant this slogan on the streets of Riyadh or Tehran or Lahore, not because those cities and others in the Islamic world are welcoming and accepting of “queer Muslims,” but because those who would do such a thing would be putting themselves immediate danger of death.
Almatwari is also writing in Teen Vogue, where “Islamophobia” in the U.S. is a much larger concern than Sharia-inspired violence against gays in Islamic states. She is not writing in a publication with wide distribution among Muslims, or that is devoted to issues of concern to Muslims. All this makes it likely that the people she thinks need reminding of the “queer Muslim” presence are non-Muslim Americans, not doctrinaire imams and their followers.
Almatwari also complains that “being a queer Muslim seems too complex for the world to handle.” But is it, really? Here again, she doesn’t specify exactly what part of “the world” she has in mind. Would anyone in America really care if Zainab Almatwari informed them that she was a “queer Muslim”? Some Christians would likely try to explain to her that she was on the wrong path; some might even be rude about it. But it is very unlikely that any of them would threaten her. In the Muslim community, however, that likelihood is far greater. Now, why is that?
“Tayah,” writes Almatwari, “is another Queer Muslim woman whose fight against societal standards is far from conventional. Our friendship started with a compliment of each other’s Hijabs and grew quickly to deep discussions about how Queer Muslim figures existed in all Muslim spaces thousands of years ago.” And what happened to them?
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Wellington says
Can’t make this stuff up. Leftism keeps doubling down into further and further absurdity, including entire exculpation of the worst religion ever developed by man. In fact, ever increasingly Western Leftism with all its transgender nonsense, pronouns being sexist, everything being racist, America and the West being awful, the entire phenomenon of cancel culture, et al. might actually have managed to become more absurd (and repressive) than Islam.
Imagine that. No mean feat. Indeed. Time for a beer.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Ah, yes.
The Left’s version of “religion”…
william carr says
Wellington: As i believe Carl Sagan memorably said; ‘extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence’. Can this Muslim lesbian give us examples of where ‘queer’ Muslims are evidenced in the Quran or the hadiths?
gravenimage says
Yep–and it ain’t pretty…
gravenimage says
Teen Vogue Presents ‘Queer Muslim Heroes to Celebrate This Muslim Women’s Day’
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Useful idiots. No mention of course of how gay people are oppressed and murdered in the Muslim world.
Keys says
Go tell it on the mountain. Go tell it on the mountain – shout it everywhere. You’re Queer. But don’t tell the Taliban from the Afghan mountains.
I bet you know better … I bet you took several courses at a Western University.
Remember – Boko Haram !
tgusa says
Any mention of anything even remotely related to sex or sexuality and the left will attack you for sexual harassment. I have never been interested in someone else’s sexuality unless I was interested in them. I just didn’t care. The left have an unhealthy obsession with sex and sexuality. One can only imagine the spectacle you would encounter while touring these leftist places of business.
Ok leftists, I get it so get on with it and scream for all to hear, Why don’t we do it in the road!
william carr says
tgusa you need to check your facts. Prior to the sexual ‘revolution’ in the sixties, people, especially the Victorians in many countries, including USA were very ‘uptight’ about sex. Not many of them were left wing at that time either. Check out the extreme right in USA Christian
quarters also
tgusa says
Left wingers of today have gone further in their uptight world than any Victorian or extreme right Christian ever did.