These attempts to appropriate and recast religious traditions on the basis of contemporary cultural fads are offensive to many people. Only one group, however, threatens the safety of participants and forces the cancellation of the event. The venue, by canceling, has just reinforced the proposition that terrorism works and that jihadis can get what they want out of Westerners by threatening them.
“Antwerp venue cancels ‘Queer Iftar’ as safety cannot be guaranteed,” by Lauren Walker, Brussels Times, March 22, 2023:
An event inviting Muslims of the LGBTQIA+ community in Antwerp to celebrate an iftar, a meal eaten after sunset during Ramadan, in a safe space on 31 March has been cancelled for security reasons.
‘Queer Iftar’ was a joint initiative set up by music venue De Roma in Borgerhout, Antwerp and the non-profit organisation Merhaba, an organisation dedicated to helping people in the community who are from a migrant background, to bring LGBTQIA+ Muslims together and giving them the chance to celebrate both parts of their identity in a safe place.
However, the event attracted angry reactions on social media, resulting in the event being cancelled.
“We wanted the Queer Iftar to create a safe space for Muslims from the LGBTQIA+ community to celebrate this tradition. We wanted to provide a place where they could bring together both identities and give that layering a place and make it discussable,” the organisers said in a statement on Tuesday evening.
The statement noted that organising such an event is sensitive for many in different ways. For some Muslims who are not part of the LGBTQIA+ community, the event goes against their faith. However, the organisers stressed they wanted to support perception and mutual respect, without provocation and with the necessary rules of conduct to ensure everyone’s safety.
However, “from numerous signals,” they could not guarantee the ‘safer space’. “Even though we consider the topic and the needs of the participants involved particularly important, their and our safety are priorities.”
Second wave of anger
Now, the decision not to host the event is once again provoking a lot of reactions. Flemish Minister for Equal Opportunities Bart Somers (Open VLD) reacted indignantly, saying society should not bow to threats and intimidation of this kind….
BTeboe says
Maybe some reading up on Islamic beliefs might be in order before events like these are conceptualized. I know there are plenty of ignorant people out there, but trying to get Muslims to agree with homosexuality requires a special kind of stupid.
Golem2 says
+1
CogitoErgoSum says
I have to admit my own inability to understand how the LGBTQ+etc. community keeps growing in number when they, if true to their sexual orientation, have no way of reproducing themselves. It seems to me that natural selection would have caused the gene for homosexuality to be eliminated from the population over time. There must be some other explanation for not only the continuation of homosexuality but the actual increase of it in the past twenty years or so – or does it just seem to be on the rise since Western civilization has become more tolerant of all kinds of queerness.
somehistory says
Agreed. They should have died out long ago if it was a ‘gene” that caused them to act in ways that would end any ability to reproduce.
If one cuts themselves in many places, severing veins and arteries, that one will bleed to death.
If people engage in homosexual practices, they do not pass on their genes to other persons. their genes die out.
In my opinion, that is why they insist on adopting, insist on preaching their **lifestyle* to the little kids in schools, show up at libraries in drag to have “story time” with tiny kids. even as they are in favor of killing the unborn.
Like an army which goes often to war has to continually recruit new soldiers who will die on the battlefield, the alphabet people need a constant flow of new blood to keep fighting the rest of us.
Kepha says
They recruit your children and mine through the swindle of public education, rotten entertainment (the price, alas, of freedom of speech and the press), and the fashions so engendered.
As a professional swindler of the young (oops, American public high school social studies teacher who wants to keep his job), Uncle Kepha has been told that the approach to transgender youth must be “affirmation rather than suicide”, even though he knows full well that too often, it’s “affirmation AND suicide [later]”. Uncle Kepha is also supposed to call tearing up another male’s 肛门 and getting fecal residue into his bloodstream (with all the attendant health hazards that may entail) “LUVV”–as in “all you need is LUVV, luvv…”
As a Christian, Uncle Kepha cannot help but think of Paul’s teaching in Romans 1:
” For this cause [worshiping the creature rather than the Creator ] God gave them up unto [v]vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due.
And even as they [w]refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful: who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them. ” (American Standard Version).
I believe that our cultural apostasy also explains why schools are not safe places, with increasing physical violence, shootings, and the like. Cruel and hateful people are going to do cruel and hateful things.
They say that if you spit at Heaven, you get it back in your own face. I fear our Western civilization has gotten so much of its own sputum back in its own face that it no longer knows that such is what has happened to it.
Ace says
Hilarious – as if there is a gay gene that can only pass 1-1 – this may be biology from the holy books, but not science. Evolution works by random variations, and social groups where a small percentage does not have the burden of child bearing but can focus on science, education, writing etc. has definitely more surviving potential. Apart from that, why this obsession with reproduction in a world that goes close to 9 billion?
somehistory says
Okay. this is so entirely stupid. A person of “faith,” is generally thought to understand and agree with what is preached, taught, heard, from their *leaders.*
The unholy book of evil filth and foul odors, commands the members to kill anyone who is found to be homosexual…throw them from the rooftops in iran, hang them from the public gallows in saudi arabia, stone them in afghanistan…however the rulers decide…to carry out the rules of islam.
Do these mozlums who say they are of the alphabet group so privileged everywhere. really **believe** that their ‘god’ and their ‘prophet’ are the true, the real, deal and that they are in agreement with the demands made in that foul and evil book?
This is so like nasty pelosi and j biden claiming to be Catholic…pretend Christian followers of Christ Jesus, partaking of the bread and wine…and yet, going against everything Jesus commanded; speak Truth, protect the little children, and all the other things Christ told those who wanted to follow Him are supposed to do in “faith.”
The mozlums who are threatening these “queer” mozlums are behaving much closer to their ‘prophet’s’ demands than are these queers who were seeking to gain special attention for their dual “identities.”
Look! Look! as the wh spokes queer says, Look at the brand new dictionary….it has under “stupid” a photo of these people at their special dinner celebrating a cult of death, destruction, rape and lies…a cult whose members want to kill them for celebrating their queerness and labeling it after islam.
Kepha says
Perhaps LGBTQ Muslims may be used against Islam as the German General Staff sent Lenin in a sealed train back to Russia–another cannon shell or cannister of mustard gas. Then again, male homosexuality has always been rampant in the Datulislam. I suppose it’s what you get when the wealthy men buy up all the women as either wives or concubines for their polygamous households, while the young and poor males are given the promise of women if they can loot them from the Darulharb–or, get them in Paradise should they fall in jihad. Great little shell game for a greedy and morally corrupt elite.
tgusa says
Ah yes. The beginnings of the cancellations. To go along to get along means some groups will have to go.
somehistory says
tgusa
Isn’t this what Infidel labels “alien v. predator”/
There are supposedly more than a billion mozlums….counting these “queer” ones; so if numbers mean anything, they may outnumber…and out-threaten…the alphabet people.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
So much for intersectionality 😈