The first openly gay Muslim imam is killed in South Africa, prompting claims of an assassination
A man regarded as the first openly gay Muslim imam has been fatally shot while sitting in a car in South Africa in what many ...
World's first openly gay Muslim imam shot dead in South Africa
The world's first openly gay imam in the Muslim faith was shot and killed in what local authorities say may be a hate crime.
First openly gay Muslim imam is killed in South Africa, prompting claims of an assassination
A man regarded as the first openly gay Muslim imam has been fatally shot while sitting in a car in South Africa in what many ...
Murder of gay South African imam Muhsin Hendricks reignites queer Muslim debate
Gunned down on Saturday morning, the man dubbed the world’s first openly gay Imam was as loved as he was controversial. A friend and scholar reflects.
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Muhsin Hendricks, ‘first openly gay imam,’ helped queer Muslims find their way
Most headlines call him the “world’s first openly gay imam,” a newsworthy descriptor but hardly the whole story. Beyond ...
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South Africa: Shock after killing of openly gay Muslim imam
The legs of costumed people participating in the annual Gay Pride event in Johannesburg, South Africa, Saturday Oct. 26, 2019 ...
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Telling their own story: South Side bus tour delves into Chicago’s key role in America’s Black Muslim history
a chronicler of African life.” Some of these tour guides once had leadership or administrative roles at pioneering Muslim newspapers and schools. They were connected and met with historical ...
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How a South African Muslim Doctor Helped Release a Jewish Professor
The Israeli-Palestinian war has fueled narratives of endless enmity between Muslims and Jews ... and the South African government stepping in. Yet his future remained uncertain.
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The Islamic State has regrouped in Somalia — and has global ambitions
BALIDHIDIN, Somalia — The dead Islamic State fighter was sprawled out on the ridge, bloodstains darkening in the sun, as a line of heavily armed Somali soldiers snaked down the mountainside to a ...
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The Islamic State has regrouped in Somalia — and has global ambitions
The Somali branch has become the Islamic State’s new operational and financial hub, according to U.S. Africa Command (Africom), and local officials estimate there are as many as 1,000 militants ...