Yasir Qadhi – Do You Support the Political Rights of the LGBT Community? Shaykh Bakeer Asks

			When it comes to LGBTQ issue, do you support LGBTQ political rights? This is just direct question
because the criticism
		

			is Jay, that you are supporting these people, JF, but we just wanted to clarify it from you, and I
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			so I have given multiple lectures about this issue. And honestly, I speak I say respectfully, I
don't think anybody who has listened to my prepared lectures, I have three or four prepared lectures
on this can have any, you know, misunderstanding about what I'm saying, We do not believe that
acting upon same * inclinations is permissible, we think it is a major sin, it is haram, we are
very, very sad and to be honest, and even morally disgusted at the level of promiscuity that we see
in our societies and our culture, we feel that it is not healthy for us, our children, and even for
broader society. Even if the people are not Muslim, we say to them, that this is harmful to you and
		

			to your children. And it is sad that legislation is being passed that has normalized this and other
types of fascia. Now, what the misunderstanding is occurring? I'm very clear morally, we are against
this. And politically, we don't want it now, the questions that, again, have been, you know, read
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			misunderstood if you listen to it within the context, and I repeat it again, suppose a politician
has certain good in them and certain evil, and you think you think the good outweighs the evil, by
you allying with this politician? Do you automatically affirm the negative and evil? This is a
separate question of whether it is evil or not. Now, you can say that I don't want to ally with this
politician good for you. But can you say that a Muslim organization or group that supports a
politician for the good becomes evil for their evil, this is what you're calling guilt by
association. This is making political loyalties into theological issues. And this is where I said,
		

			as a person of knowledge, who understands aptly that in theology, don't open the door to make tech
field or to make to be based upon politics. You know, there are tyrants in the Muslim world, right.
Some are Allama. May Allah, you know, forgiven guide them. I don't agree with this. Personally, they
have decided the lesser of two evils is to work under the tyrant and to at least preach and teach.
By the way almost every Muslim government and alone was downright somewhat rude, I make this
decision. Now, those are never who make this decision. All we're going to say and they're not saying
it as * to kill and what they're just saying, for the lesser of two evils. We're just going to
		

			accept this, or we're going to say that they are supporting the tyrant. By the way, we're not
talking about the one who gives a fatwa that is halal to kill. We're not saying the one who gives a
fuck about that LGBT is halal. Clearly, that is haram and it is Cofer. But the one who says I'm
going to have political alliances for other causes, not for LGBT, not for so again, is there any
politician that is saying that we're going to shut down? The pubs and alcohol? No every politician?
Is there any politician that is saying that we're going to ban Zina and make Zina something that is
illegal. No, it is the default. So when you ally with the politician for cause X, and that cause X
		

			is good, ie foreign policy, stopping the invasion of Iraq, boycotting AIPAC or whatever else you're
doing, and you think cause X is good and positive, and Islam says it is good and positive. But this
politician also has caused why and cause why is evil, whether it is LGBT, whether it is any other
evil that they might have, and you weigh X and Y, right. And in your opinion, why is more than x,
that's your opinion, my position is you cannot make this person a cafe or multimedia. Because of
this assessment will lie. My speech is very clear brothers and sisters, political alliances can be
mistaken, don't read in theological affiliations, we do not support the political rights of drinking
		

			alcohol, but it is there. What are you going to do about it? We do not support the political rights
of we don't think it's good, but what are you going to do about it in the world that we live in? If
somebody says it's the lesser of two evils to ally with this politician for a reason for a cause?
That is not haram, then it's their opinion. As for me, by the way, and again, to be clear, I have
never supported a political candidate. I have never endorsed a candidate. I have never told the
Muslims to vote for a candidate. And anybody who says otherwise Yanni, they have to, you know, find
the evidence for this. It is simply not the case. All I'm saying don't conflate political alliances
		

			with theological opinions and that's very, very clear at Allah azza wa jal knows best
		

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