Mauree Turner (personal pronouns of “They/Them/Theirs”) is a “Queer, Non-binary, Okie Muslim” elected to Oklahoma’s congress in 2020, the “first non-binary person elected to a state level position in US history.” A former intern in 2017 for the Oklahoma chapter of the Hamas front group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Turner illustrates the previously discussed ideological crosscurrents orthodox Muslims face in the midst of modern Western identity politics.
Turner, who has enthused about “being a Black, Muslim, queer, nonbinary person for the majority of my life,” would seem an odd choice for a CAIR ally, yet CAIR-OK has repeatedly promoted her. Her profile has appeared in CAIR-OK’s #TheMuslimNextDoor public relations campaign and CAIR-OK later displayed online her 2020 campaign statement without comment. Therein she wrote with her confusing plural personal pronouns that growing up, “if they were missing class it was because they were at an HIV and AIDS Awareness event or LGBTQ+ advocacy event with their mother.”
This author raised Turner’s case in a Twitter reply to Georgetown University professor Jonathan Brown. When not hating Israel or justifying Islamic slavery, he often worries about state entities using “law to effectively enforce positions on sex/gender/sexuality” in contrast to Islamic teaching. Reacting to her behavior, one Muslim tweeted: “Most Muslims who take their religion seriously consider her acts sinful and her parading it even worse. Yes[,] I would tell her to her face without the slightest hesitation.”
This author wondered to his Muslim interlocuter whether CAIR would make any comment upon Turner’s heterodox understanding of Islam, to which he critically replied:
Good point. Unfortunately[,] organizations like CAIR have diluted their Islamic principles trying to navigate the murky waters of political activism. As a result, political success have become more important to them than adhering to the religion they profess to serve.
Yet sometimes LGBT extremism has become just too radical for Muslims in CAIR and elsewhere to ignore. CAIR’s Arizona chapter (CAIR-AZ), for example, ceased legal representation for an individual claiming violation of a religious freedom by Arizona police officer who had removed the person’s Islamic veil or hijab. During legal representation, CAIR-AZ discovered that the person is actually a man who identifies as a woman.
Dawud Walid, the antisemitic executive director of CAIR’s Michigan chapter (CAIR-MI), also criticized President Joe Biden for a pro-LGBT executive order on his first day in office, January 21, 2021. As Walid’s shared article explained in a since deleted tweet, the order would, among other things, force women working for the federal government to share bathroom facilities with men who men who identify as women. “Starting out with such a culture war issue isn’t exactly a good first step in bringing unity, sir,” Walid tweeted.
LGBT issues have recently again drawn CAIR-MI’s attention as Muslim and other parents in the heavily-Muslim Michigan city of Dearborn have reacted with outrage to sexually explicit LGBT books in school libraries. In an October 17 statement retweeted by CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR-MI denounced school library books with
extremely graphic depictions and descriptions of sexual activity. These sexual acts include oral sex, sodomy and group masturbation (among teenagers), as well as step-by-step instructions and images explaining how to engage in various acts…We stand up for what is right and against what is wrong, and it is plainly wrong for a school library to ignore Michigan law and override the wishes of parents by making pornographic material available to school children.
Some Dearborn Muslim residents, such as the pharmacist Hassan Chami, have taken political consequences from the school scandal. In a November 5 tweeted video, he explained that “as a Muslim, I will not vote for Democrats,” for they demand that Muslims “privilege woke ideology over our Islamic values” in a “secular, godless society.” In a previous October 21 video, he argued “Do Not Vote For Rashida Tlaib,” the Democrat representing Dearborn in Congress. “There is no moral standard whatsoever on the progressive end” of politics, he stated, and progressivism is equally opposed to all devout people, whether Jews, Christians, or Muslims.
Despite such worries, Chami would, like some Muslims, consider Daniel Haqiqatjou, an American Muslim from Houston, Texas, who studied physics and philosophy at Harvard College, extreme. This Taliban supporter advocates criminalizing apostasy from, and blasphemy against, Islam and has justified Islamic doctrines legitimizing wife-beating. He has also joked about executions of homosexuals under Islamic law and praised the 2019 introduction of sharia corporal punishments for a wide range of offenses in the Southeast Asia sultanate of Brunei.
Yet Haqiqatjou’s basic moral opposition to LGBT agendas, as expressed at his Muslim Skeptic website, will undoubtedly have considerable appeal among many Muslims including Chami, as well as other believers in natural sexuality. “There is no equivalence between sodomite fetishism and healthy sexuality between husband and wife,” Haqiqatjou has written. “One of the most heinous acts committable are acts of homosexuality, and this realization is something that Allah has built into our Fitrah” or nature, his fellow Muslim Skeptic writer, pen name Crypto Cranium, has concurred on the basis of scientific studies.
People such as Chami would probably not fault Haqiqatjou for decrying a “LGBT cultural behemoth ravaging society,” driven by “rectum sex propagandists,” among others. Crypto Cranium agreed that “as time goes on, this shiny rainbow tumor is just going to keep on growing.” Haqiqatjou especially worried, not without a certain logic, that “anti-Islam government agencies know that when a Muslim accepts LGBT, he is just a hop, skip, and a jump away from abandoning Islam entirely.”
Crypto Cranium similarly has noted “a myriad of examples” of LGBT “targeted propaganda towards Muslims in the Western world…as clear-cut as anti-Muslim agendas get.” LGBT advocates
know that it will be Muslim parents with traditional Islamic values that will be the staunchest in protecting their children from this utterly perverted garbage which they want to indoctrinate every kid into, and thus it is Muslims and Islam that they target the most and they do so relentlessly.
Dearborn parents could surely sympathize with Crypto Cranium’s view that in public schools “every so often some sick pervert will come and teach your child to masturbate.” Thus, parents “shouldn’t be surprised if one day their six-year old returns home naked with a whip in one hand and a studded dog collar around the neck.” By contrast, Crypto Cranium firmly summarized that Islamic doctrine has “no room for interpretation. Homosexuality is Haram [forbidden], period.” He praised 13 Muslim countries, including Saudi Arabia, that recently banned the animated film Lightyear because it included a Lesbian wedding and kiss.
As Haqiqatjou’s previously sharp criticism has indicated, basic conservative sensibilities and rigid Islamic teachings rule out any harmonious political relationship between Muslims and LGBT groups. Any oft-invoked “red-green” alliance between Leftists and their Muslim allies always demanded that the latter squelch objections to Leftist sacred cows concerning radical individual autonomy. Long-term, sentiments influenced by sharia and/or natural law are simply incompatible with the modern Western “sexual state.”
Mark Spahn says
” Daniel Haqiqatjou, an American Muslim from Houston, Texas”
What is Dan’s totem animal? Answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkajou
Keith O says
Mauree Turner using the terms “they, them, theirs” to describe herself sounds a lot like schizophrenia! and as such she should be excluded from public office due to her mental illness.
ntesdorf says
Turner, being a ‘Black, Muslim, Queer, Nonbinary Person’ will find herself fairly low on the Muslim Popularity Chart.
gravenimage says
Being Nation of Islam (Black Muslim) won’t win *them* any points with orthodox Muslims, either.
gravenimage says
Islam’s Irrepressible Conflict with LGBT (Part Four)
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CAIR may nominally support Mauree Turner right now, because it is expedient for them to do so. But as a “trans” Black Muslim “they” would be thrown off a tall building anywhere in a pious stretch of Dar-al-Islam.
Westman says
It’s interesting to observe Muslims waking up to the sexual grooming of their children toward, “sodomite fetishism”, by the morally-vacuated Wokies.
How long before the Woke realize they are, and have always been, on the Muslim roster to be converted, enslaved, or, eliminated?
Maybe the fellow-traveling is drawing to a close regardless of CAIR’s efforts.
tgusa says
I recently went in for a procedure at the hospital. The nurse asked me what my preferred pronoun was. I said, you can call me king or you can call me big daddy but never call me stupid. You should have seen the look on her masked face. Lol.
notoislam says
The HISTORY CHANNEL ran the religion thing this week and we can see that the Muslims were given no comment. By that I mean we see sculpture after sculpture in the land of EGYPT and the noses have been wacked off by the Muslims —and there is NO COMMENT about this.
This segment of the film was in the first 7 yrs. after Christ was murdered- —-So all over Europe the noses were hacked off by muslims– We know what these savages did to Christians and this was not discussed at all.
nurseviki says
I welcome the Muslims in the fight for decent libraries for kids.