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British Muslim Kills Himself Because His Family Refused TO Acknowledge His Sexuality: Why Do Religious People Never Learn?

Nazim Mahmood and Matthew Ogston
Nazim Mahmood and Matthew Ogston

Often we fail to look past the surface when dealing with a complex issue. In Ghana we often outright reject the views of others that do not tally with ours.

It’s a vicious spiral of silence that keeps ‘different’ people in their shells. If we find out that someone is gay, or does not believe in God- there is sometimes a violent reaction. But more than that, there is often a more silent reaction, no less visceral but that’s more subtle, more psychological.

It grinds the victim down to the point they feel worthless. Often if the violence doesn’t get you the psychological abuse would.

In the West, violence is not really a problem for gays anymore. But in parts, the psychological side still persists. This often happens when it comes into conflict with religion; the one thing that makes people so short sighted they refuse to acknowledge anything else.

This sad story posted on the Guardian talks about a gay couple, one of whom was Muslim and was so torn he had to lead a double life to keep his family off his trail. When they eventually found out, their reaction was ballistic, as he had anticipated.

They practically disowned him, and the effect was so profound he committed suicide. He jumped off the balcony of the London flat he shared with his husband. Even in death his family refused to acknowledge his sexuality, and arranged his funeral in such a way his husband could not be present.

When Nazim Mahmood came out to his family, his mom told him to see a psychiatrist so he could be cured. Like being gay was an affliction- like Down’s syndrome as a bishop said a week or two ago.

Often these are normal, intelligent people, but something challenges their religious doctrine and they become something else; almost primal.

It is sad, for me. Religious people commit sins all the time, things that are prohibited by their doctrines. Stealing, gossiping, fornication- the list is endless. Yet they can live with themselves because they accept they are human, and that God forgives their transgressions.

Yet they aren’t willing to extend that same courtesy to their fellow beings. No one sin is bigger than the other; and so even if gays are sinning (a very big if) – they aren’t any worse than every other single religious person on this planet, all of whom are sinners to the very last one.

What else can make your mum tell you to seek psychiatric help because of your choice of sexuality? Religion is that one canker, that divides people along lines set forth by some old men thousands of years ago.

It’s a sorry state of affairs, and man would not achieve our full potential so long as religion exists to perpetuate hatred and inhibit curiosity.

Read Nazim’s story on the Guardian, and marvel at how cruel some people can be.



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