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Islamic “ones” specifically haven’t. Some extremist regimes have, especially Christian ones since they’re much more common and have done this way more times.
There are 1.8 billion Muslims on Earth. The vast, vast majority do not live in cultures where homosexuality is viewed as immoral. There are only people that misuse verses and give them anachronistic meanings to fit them to their pre-existing culture. This includes Lot’s verse in the Quran which most use to justify anti-LGBT views, which is just a retelling of Sodom an Gomorrah, which we can see above is not about homosexuality.
In many cases across Africa the people that do this are doing so specifically because of Christian Missionaries, even if they later convert to Islam.
So yes, you are indeed being racist when you attack 1/4th of the Earth’s population and claim they’re all like this.
I hope this comment isn’t gone by the time I post this, because I wrote it an decided I might get banned because of [redacted[ if I don’t thoroughly source it.
Islamic “ones” specifically haven’t. Some extremist regimes have, especially Christian ones since they’re much more common and have done this way more times.
What is the problem is the export of homophobic cultures, not the religion. The religion itself is against using male on male rape as a form of punishment or humiliation. That’s what the Leviticus line refers to, that’s what the story of Sodom refers to, that’s what most cultures refer to when discussing a ‘man lying with a man as he does with a woman.’
But some cultures are so homophobic they took the story which was set in a time before consensual sexuality was split into different moral rights and wrongs and they made it about said consensual sexuality.
There are 1.8 billion Muslims on Earth. The vast, vast majority do not live in cultures where homosexuality is viewed as immoral. There are only people that misuse verses and give them anachronistic meanings to fit them to their pre-existing culture. This includes Lot’s verse in the Quran which most use to justify anti-LGBT views, which is just a retelling of Sodom an Gomorrah, which we can see above is not about homosexuality.
In many cases across Africa the people that do this are doing so specifically because of Christian Missionaries, even if they later convert to Islam.
So yes, you are indeed being racist when you attack 1/4th of the Earth’s population and claim they’re all like this.
Plus the story of sodom could be about how worthless women were seen as at the time. “Don’t rape our precious men! Rape our women they are worth less”