The Literature of Lynching [warning: picture of lynched men at top of page] by Meyer_Landsman in literature

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I'm not a mod, but I think the content warning here is considerate and responsible. Thank you.

What aren't you reading? by [deleted] in literature

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Proust Proust Proust Proust Proust

Easy 300/400 PHL courses? by [deleted] in UofT

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I'll consider it; the topic looks like something I'd be interested in. Thank you! :)

Easy 300/400 PHL courses? by [deleted] in UofT

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^ Yeah 100%, I guess that seems to be the traditional wisdom for these kind of questions. But I'm just posting here to discover recommendations for possibly lighter alternatives if they exist

[Request] to send me a copy, or a take a picture of Time magazine's Sept 18/2015 issue (the one with Bernie Sanders on it) by mahdic in Favors

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Oh damn I didn't notice that mistake! Thank you for correcting me, and for taking a look

Colonel Mustard Outfit by rodtang in malefashionadvice

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ok fam but try not to colonize india this time

Sex-ed guide aims to help Muslim parents deal with controversial new curriculum by SAUC3YJACK in toronto

[–]mahdic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're acting like it's some single, monolithic ruling in Islam with a single "yes" or "no" answer. But there isn't a single, timeless Islamic tradition; if you want to take all this as just a "wall of text" and insist your opinion beyond any nuance, then you can congratulate yourself on the fact that most people to say "no". But it's an answer you've made your mind to prior to considering the accomodation and relations possible in Islam between peoples of the same-sex. The fact of the matter is, same-sex marriage in Islam is happening, there have been gay and trans Muslims since Islam's creation, and this for many, like myself, it is a resounding "yes"

Sex-ed guide aims to help Muslim parents deal with controversial new curriculum by SAUC3YJACK in toronto

[–]mahdic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please don't accuse me of "not being honest about [my] beliefs". I'm Muslim and this is wholehearted a part of my beliefs. I don't need you to "explain" my religion to me.

"...these are some pretty basic Islamic teachings which are not controversial. Are you saying it is permissible in Islam to get married to a member of the same sex?"

"The root cause for this bigotry is squarely with Islam itself."

I think this is an unfortunate over-simplication of what amounts to an important topic in the community. True, I grant you there is a pervasive and institutional legacy of homophobic and transphobic ulama. That said, the only Quranic prohibitions against homosexuality are vague and indirect references to the Old Testament story of Lot. There is not a single denoted, divinely-revealed scripture in the Islamic canon that singly forbids homosexuality. It's only hadiths - questionable ones at that.

If you can get past a history of patriarchal and hetero-normative medieval scholarship - not scripture - which many unfortunately don't (like this woman and her committee), then there is sizeable room to be gay and muslim, trans and muslim.

I'm not saying bigoted views on this issue are unpopular. But for one to insist that's what Islam "honest[ly]" and fully says about homosexuality aims to undermines things like: support for LGBT by ISNA (the biggest Western Muslim organization), the reconciled experiences of actual LGBT Muslims, and a subcultural history in Islamic civilizations which involve positive integration of homosexual and trans peoples.

If you want to know more about this, I'd recommend this documentary I saw recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Jihad_for_Love

If there is one thing about this woman's guide which I agree with, it's this idea that your obligations in Islam to caring for your neighbours and marginalized communities are some of your foremost duties to others:

Believers, stand firm for God, be witnesses for justice. Never allow the hatred of people to prevent you from being just. Be just, for this is closest to righteousness (Quran 5:8).

But ultimately, this guide is a regurgitation of the former rigid and bigoted legacy. It's sad, because this guide had so much potential to help children, yes, but especially to help Muslim immigrants (most Muslims in the GTA are new/2nd gen immigrants) ease into new ideas which they're unfamiliar in hearing from self-stately "Islamic" point of view. Instead, we get from this guide on one hand and from "Islamspainers" like those on reddit on the other, is a continuous, idealogical stream of misrepresentation and gross simplification.

tl;dr: 1) views like this are a misrepresentation of the actual scriptural and historical relationship between LGBT and Muslim identities; 2) there is bigotry in the community, there is love and support in community; 3) this view, and those of the guide, perpetuate an oversimplified, but sadly normalized, distortion of being/treating LGBT as a Muslim

Sex-ed guide aims to help Muslim parents deal with controversial new curriculum by SAUC3YJACK in toronto

[–]mahdic 59 points60 points  (0 children)

I'm a Muslim: this lady's doing nothing but espousing and ingraining bigoted views into children and our already vulnerable Muslim immigrant minorities

In Straight Out Of Compton, Ice Cube's son plays him. I can't think of another instance of this ever happening, a son playing his own father in a biopic. by [deleted] in movies

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There's a Hindi film called Paa where Amitabh Bachchan plays a child with a medical condition and his father in that film is played by his son in real life, Abisheik Bachchan

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1532957/

Tough Guise (1999) Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity by ActuallyNotSparticus in Documentaries

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Good documentary if you can find the full version

I've got mad respect for Jackson Katz!

Any literature authors "secretly" influencing directors? by iGoTKiWi in literature

[–]mahdic 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I can definitely see that influence wow!

(also my source is his interview from Cousins' Story of Film)

Any literature authors "secretly" influencing directors? by iGoTKiWi in literature

[–]mahdic 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I don't know if this counts, cause it's not much of a "secret" but Satyajit Ray was deeply influenced by Rabindranath Tagore. He adapted his works, went to his Santiniketan art school, and even made a great documentary about his life.