The murder and legacy of the world’s first openly gay imam

世界首位公开出柜的伊玛目的谋杀与遗产

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2025-02-24

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  • As a Muslim, you always question, have I pleased God or have I angered him or her?

  • Imam Mohsin Hendrix said that the need to be authentic was greater than the fear to die.

  • Being the world's first opening queer imam is like Mr. World, but that's the gay side.

  • I mean, it says that.

  • Because people.

  • Look up to you and you have to watch what you say, watch what you do.

  • You become a role model for so many people.

  • It's a conscious way of being all the time.

  • He knew that a lot of people in the Muslim community in South Africa didn't accept who he was, and he knew that someday his fight for equality may cost him his life.

  • To South Africa now, where tributes continue to come in for Mussin Hendricks, dubbed.

  • The world's first openly gay imam.