Kuddus issues statement on Mail Gay Case: Homosexuality is not 'Haram'

Feb. 4, 2013 - PRLog -- Omar Kuddus, a Muslim LGBT rights advocate based in the UK, made the following statement regarding an article from Gay Star News about two gay men who were recently slated for execution in Mali but saved by intervention:

http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/two-men-mali-saved-execution-having-gay-sex040213

Kuddus: Homosexuality is not 'Haram'

‘As I have stated on numerous occasions, homosexuality is not illegal or forbidden in the Quran, it is not condemned as haram.

‘Fundamental Islamists, having been indoctrinated by religious leaders who impose their own views and interpretations on homosexuality have become obsessed with the idea and this impels them to commit such atrocities and crimes against humanity.

‘If the French led forces had not rescued, found and freed these two Malian men who were about to be executed today, their plight and deaths would have gone unnoticed.

‘The question must be asked, of how many other gay men are executed, tortured, in the false name of Islam, without this being reported or noticed.

‘Muslims must be reminded and educated that only Allah can pass judgement, not mere mortal men, and that Islam is a religion of compassion and forgiveness, not of murder’.