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Queer Muslim Pleas To LGBTQ Community For Compassion Fall On Deaf Ears
Here we go again. As usual, Islamophobes across the nation are blaming all of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims for the massacre in Orlando.
Related: Conservative Wingnuts Waste No Time Using Orlando Tragedy To Further Political Agendas
To combat this, many queer Muslim members have taken to social media to remind others in the LGBTQ community that, despite what folks like Donald Trump are saying, the entire Islamic religion cannot be blamed for last weekend’s tragedy.
Related: The Internet Responds To The Orlando Tragedy
But are people listening?
Scroll down to see what some Muslim members of the LGBTQ community are saying, and how others are responding to them…
I’m gay and Muslim. I want to tell the LGBT community that the Orlando shooter doesn’t reflect my faith as a Muslim.
— Shawn Ahmed (@uncultured) June 12, 2016
#GaysForTrump because he will implement the immigration ban that will keep our moms and sisters safe from the cancer that is #Islam ??
— R. D. Hutchinson (@LawlessPirate) June 13, 2016
The shooting that #ISIS committed during #Ramadan (The holiest month of Islam) further proves our point that these guys are not Muslim
— Karim Metwaly (@KarimyScreamy) June 12, 2016
@sallykohn People are tired of the obfuscation from people like you. Muslims are not victims, they are the AGGRESSORS. #GaysAgainstIslam
— Murtadd57 (@Javer35) June 13, 2016
Too many suffer from intolerance. #LoveIsLove #RainbowIslam #Orlando #ISIS #LGBT #RainbowRamadan #Florida #Islam pic.twitter.com/Sdi962SpW8
— Muhammad Al’ Minah (@lgbtqislam) June 12, 2016
If ur a #GayMuslim ur the worlds dumbest ignorant baboon known to mankind. Why believe in a religion or fake god that doesn’t believe in u?
— Media Is Life (@DruDistrict) June 13, 2016
As a #gaymuslim the shooting in #Orlando is not Islamic in anyway shape or form. The man who did it is no Muslim. #Orlando #orlandoshooting
— keighleylad (@Mammdothehump) June 12, 2016
#LGBT are executed in 11 Islamic countries. Guns aren’t the issue here. So don’t piss on my leg, & tell me it’s raining… #GaysAgainstIslam
— Alex Cowan (@Desareon) June 13, 2016
LGBTQ Muslims have and always will exist—we aren’t haram and we aren’t alone #LoveWins pic.twitter.com/Vd5aLyraep
— nat | 5 (@swansmayor) June 12, 2016
This Muslim maniac intentionally targeted a gay club. Islam hates #LGBT. Muslims hate gays. If you are gay, Islam wants you dead. #Orlando
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) June 12, 2016
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims of last night’s terrible events in #Orlando t.co/tDXCSdRt5r
— OUTMuslim (@OutMuslim) June 12, 2016
#GaysForTrump it’s either that or have liberals sacrifice our lives to Allah to prove they’re not racist?
— Yohanan Nussant (@Yohanzor) June 13, 2016
In which direction are we gay Muslims to cry?#PulseNightClub#LGBTMuslims
— Freedom2B (@Freedom22BB) June 12, 2016
In defending Islam after every horrific terrorist attack the left has moved beyond idiotic to now being suicidal. #Orlando #stopislam
— Cdub (@cdubontw) June 13, 2016
Orlando 12/6/2016 They Are Us! #PrayForLGBT #NoH8 #AllahLovesEquality #LGBTmuslims #catholic #jewish #muslims #druze pic.twitter.com/sbrqiiqo8f
— Wisam Abou Harb (@WisamAbouHarb) June 13, 2016
We are living in an age of terror & who do we want to lead us? I want a strong leader who will call out Radical Islamic Terror #GaysForTrump
— Stephen Zieman (@StephenZieman) June 13, 2016
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