“We have made great strides in securing legal rights for the LGBTQ2 community in Canada – from enshrining equality rights in the Charter to the passage of the Civil Marriage Act. But the fight to end discrimination is not over and a lot of hard work still needs to be done. Canadians know our country is made stronger because of our diversity, not in spite of it.”
– The Rt. Hon. Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
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Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips, a Canadian Muslim scholar, and Imam: -“The Islamic Law says that if you’re caught in an act in an Islamic State you will be executed. If you’re been seen by four witnesses etc. execution. That’s the law.”
Abdullah Hakim Quick, Vice President of the Canadian Council of Imams: “So he said: what is the position of Islam on homosexuality? They ask me. So newspaper, right? So I said: put my name in the paper. The position is death. And we cannot change Islam.
Excerpts from the book Minhaj-Al-Muslim by Abu Bakr Al-Jazairy (purchased at the Islamic Circle of North America’s bookstore in Toronto) speak to homosexuality in Islam.
“The Hadd [fixed punishment] of homosexuality is stoning to death. The methods of killing them (the two who committed the homosexual act) that have been related from the Companions have differed. From among them, there were those who burned them with fire. Others among them killed them by stoning them with stones. Ibn ‘Abbas said about them. “The highest building in the village should be sought, then they should be thrown from it upside down (i.e. on their heads)
Is it rational to fear Islam if one is a member of the LGBTQ2 community?
According to the Runnymede Trust, this is the definition of Islamophobia, written in 1997, four years before 9/11 It has been accepted by the European Union and remains the most widely referred to definition in Britain and Europe today.
This is Islamophobia:
It is irrational to view Islam as a single monolithic bloc, static and unresponsive to new realities.
It is irrational to view Islam as separate and other; not having any aims or values in common with other cultures; not affected by them; not influencing them
It is irrational to view Islam as inferior to the West – barbaric, irrational, primitive, sexist.
It is irrational to view Islam as violent, aggressive, threatening, supportive of terrorism, engaged in ‘a clash of civilisations’.
It is irrational to view Islam as a political ideology, used for political or military advantage.
It is irrational to reject out of hand criticisms of ‘the West’ made by Islam
It is irrational to use hostility towards Islam to justify discriminatory practices towards Muslims and exclude Muslims from mainstream society.
It is irrational to accept anti-Muslim hostility as natural and ‘normal.’
Is it rational to fear Islam if one is a member of the LGBTQ2 community? Watch the video.
Toronto Mayor John Tory has stated at Pride Events “Toronto stands firm in condemning all acts of discrimination and violence towards the LGBTQ2S [community].”
Rainbow Pride flag & Transgender Pride flag
From the Ethics of the Fathers: “Rabbi Tarfon used to say, it is not incumbent upon you to complete the task, but you are not exempt from undertaking it.”
