Thursday, September 13, 2018

Standing against the murder of anyone, for any reason, regardless of what sin they are committing, is NOT equivalent to condoning those sins or making it "safe" for them to commit those sins.
Indeed, as Muslims who worship a Just Lord, and a Merciful Lord, who forbade us from ever taking the lives of any individual outside of very specific situations, we should *never* be okay with a certain group of people being targeted for violence or death. We cannot and should not be "neutral" about it.
It doesn't matter how much we despise a sin, or a type of behaviour that offends our Islamic sensibilities. We, as Muslims, before anyone else, are bound by certain moral and legal restrictions that we are required to uphold - including the obligation to *not* act on our emotions against any individual or group whom we consider "too sinful."
Indeed, what many of us do not even consider is that even if certain groups of people are committing types of sins that we may consider nearly unforgivable - even those individuals may find themselves accepting Tawheed, become Muslim, and become people whose taqwa and good deeds far outdo our own. To think otherwise is nothing short of sheer arrogance.
If you think that we as Muslims should be "neutral" about LGBTQ people being murdered, or that we should oppose single stall gender neutral bathrooms just because it's safer for them (those bathrooms are convenient for everyone btw), then honestly... the only thought that occurs to me is that you have a sick, diseased heart that has perverted Islamic morals and values far beyond recognition.
It is perfectly possible to consider homosexual acts to be haraam, and to oppose the normalization of such relationships as halal, while also believing that LGBTQ individuals - like any human being - have the basic right to human safety and protection from murder and violence.
{And do not kill the soul which Allah has forbidden, except by right. And whoever is killed unjustly - We have given his heir authority, but let him not exceed limits in [the matter of] taking life. Indeed, he has been supported [by the law].} (17:33)
{Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land - it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one - it is as if he had saved mankind entirely.} (Qur'an 5:32)

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