Category: Opinion

Pride is a Safe Place for LGBT people of Muslim Heritage – A response to Al-Kadhi In The Guardian

July 5, 2018 | by | 1 Comments
Pride is an important, welcoming place for LGBT people of Muslim heritage, including liberal Muslims and ex-Muslims. Amrou Al-Kadhi’s article in The Guardian paints a bleak picture of London Pride. It contains inaccurate citations of placards and, more menacingly, erases the bastion of hope and progress that the parade symbolises for many LGBT people of Muslim heritage. Life […] Read more

Unfortunately 100 is Small Pickings for Ramzan Kadyrov

April 13, 2017 | by | 0 Comments
LGBT activist groups and human rights watch organisations are uncovering the systematic targeting of homosexual men in Chechnya. Distressingly, there are reports of prison camps in which gay men are being murdered. Chechnya’s current leader, Kadyrov, has made a number of statements that could be interpreted as either utterly delusional, or duplicitous and poorly calculated. […] Read more