Muhsin Hendricks, well known as the first openly gay Muslim imam, was fatally shot in South Africa last Saturday in what supporters are calling a targeted assassination. Hendricks was ambushed by ...

While few people within the Muslim community, including myself, agreed with Imam Hendricks’s self-declared homosexuality and his promotion of same-sex relationships, no one has the right to ...

AS THE first openly gay Imam, Muhsin Hendricks fearlessly championed an all-inclusive, compassion-centered Islam, dedicating his life to creating safe spaces for queer Muslims, and redefining ...

But Zahed endured and would go on to to shatter just about every stereotype when it comes to Islam: he grew up, became an openly gay imam, and established Europe’s first LGBT mosque. Being an ...

Rahim, 53, became the fifth Aga Khan and the 50th imam of the Nizari Ismaili branch of Shia Islam, whose leaders claim descent from the Prophet Muhammad. There are only 12 million to 15 million ...

Traditional imams in South Africa rarely, if ever, perform the marriage of a Muslim to a non-Muslim - something that Hendricks clearly had no issue with. He had, according to a faith leader that ...

A man hailed as the world’s first imam to say he was gay was shot dead ... support to “Queer Muslims helping them to reconcile Islam with their Sexual orientation and Gender Identity ...

Ismaili Islam is a branch of Shia Islam. According to the Shiites, temporal and spiritual power is vested in the imams, or those who lead their followers from "in front," who are appointed from ...

Muhsin Hendricks – considered to be the world’s first openly gay imam – has been shot dead during an ambush on his car in South Africa. The Islamic scholar and LGBTQ+ activist who ran a ...

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Sadiq Lawal, a gay Muslim man living in Nigeria, told the BBC that Hendricks, had made such an impact as he had made "the impossible possible" by saying the words: "I'm a queer imam." "He's a ...