{"id":42138,"date":"2011-06-27T10:57:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T18:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2011-06-27T10:57:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T18:57:25","slug":"muslim-britons-the-gays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/27\/muslim-britons-the-gays\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Britons &amp; the gays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/polls_gays_muslims.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3716\" title=\"polls_gays_muslims\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/polls_gays_muslims.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/liberalconspiracy.org\/2011\/06\/27\/uk-muslims-prouder-of-gay-rights-than-christians\/\">Sunny Hundal<\/a> states:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The poll marks a sharp contrast to findings by Gallup in 2009 that 0% of British Muslims were tolerant towards homosexuality. But the two results are not contradictory: Muslims can agree that Islam does not tolerate homosexuality, while celebrating gay rights enshrined in the law.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is possible. But honestly it just doesn&#8217;t pass the smell test. This is a tenable position for very religious people, and the norm among inward looking sects derived from Anabaptism, in part because they believe that they are islands of virtue in a fallen world. But this is a minority position usually. Passionate religious views generally entail passionate espousal of policy prescriptions, whether you think it is good or ill. And Muslims as a whole have not been keen on the extreme church-state separationism which radical Protestant sects have advocated. I double checked in the World Values Survey, and 28 out of the 41 Muslims, 68%, agreed that homosexuality was &#8220;never justifiable,&#8221; as opposed to 25% of the general British population.<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s going on? I suspect that the poll is aggregating a host of divergent views and reactions. How many dollars\/pounds are you will bet that non-religions Britons are more tepid toward gay rights as than the median British Muslim? I&#8217;m willing to be $250 dollars that this is not so. Rather, I suspect that some of the lukewarm responses are probably to those who on the far cultural Left who want much more radical sexual orientation anti-discrimination legislation passed, in particular in regards to marriage rights.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/thabet1979\">thabet&#8217;s twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunny Hundal states: The poll marks a sharp contrast to findings by Gallup in 2009 that 0% of British Muslims were tolerant towards homosexuality. But the two results are not contradictory: Muslims can agree that Islam does not tolerate homosexuality, while celebrating gay rights enshrined in the law. This is possible. But honestly it just [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-homosexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42338,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42138\/revisions\/42338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}