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If you’ve ever wondered what the Qu’ran actually says about homosexuality IMAAN has a great PDF on the subject:
http://www.imaan.org.uk/faq/QuranFAQ.pdf
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Thank you very much for linking that PDF, Tab! I had a lot of incorrect notions about Islam and their views of homosexuality, I was very surprised to read that the passages used to justify homosexuality being sinful were vague (much like Christianity is about homosexuality)… so that was interesting and eye-opening to read.
I’m not sure how relevant that FAQ about the Qu’ran and homosexuality is. Islam is not sola scriptura Protestantism. It generally does not go back to the source text and reason from scratch. Rather, it looks at how passages have historically been understood. It is a communal religion, not a personal one, and there is great emphasis on the scholarly concensus.
Readings that go straight back to the Qu’ran and reason independently from there, without reference to the Hadith, the wider community, and historical traditional understanding, are not really reflective of mainstream Islam.
(Much the same could be said for Judaism or Orthodox Christianity, for that matter.)
TRiG.
I’m not sure if there’s a “mainstream” for Islam. It contains a lot of diversity, just as any religion does. I have many Muslim friends (all female) from the USA and living in the Middle East, and their beliefs are drastically different. One American Muslim I know wears the full burqa, most wear just the hijab, and a close friend in Cairo wears “western” clothing, still modest but she’ll wear jeans and a teeshirt and never wears the headscarf. She supports homosexuality (we write yaoi fanfiction together, haha!) while the friend who wears the burqa has much more conservative views on THAT matter. So it’s really diverse, even for those living in the Middle East.