The Modernist Menace To Islam by Daniel Haqiqatjou

False analogy: LGBT groups advocate for Muslim rights therefore Muslim groups should advocate for same-sex marriage, transgender bathroom bills, pronoun preference, etc. Why is it a false analogy? Because the particular Muslim rights LGBT groups advocate for are not contrary to LGBT ideology. Muslims being able to build mosques is not contrary to LGBT ideology. Muslims not being banned from travel to the US is not contrary to LGBT ideology, etc.

But same-sex marriage, the dissolution of gender norms, the promotion of “LGBT lifestyles” are contrary to Islam. So it’s nowhere close to being a fair deal.

If we want to make this a fair situation, we would have to see if LGBT groups are willing to support Muslim causes and Islamic principles that do contradict LGBT ideology. For example, are LGBT “allies” willing to support Muslim events and causes that reinforce Islamic gender norms? For example, would they be willing to co-sponsor events, education, material that promote within the Muslim community the traditional Islamic role of women as mothers and men as breadwinners? Would they be willing to sponsor policies in Muslim countries that contravene liberal views on “gender equality,” e.g., laws that prohibit Muslim women from marrying non-Muslim men, laws that uphold the Sharia’s distribution of inheritance between the genders, etc.? In fact, to make it perfectly analogous, LGBT groups should support Muslims’ upholding of Islamic sexual norms, including the prohibition of same-sex behavior. That would make it a true “I scratch your back, you scratch my back” situation. Muslims violate their sexual ethics by advocating for LGBT normalization, LGBT groups violate their sexual ethics by advocating for the normalization of anti-same-sex behavior. Perfect parity. If and only if LGBT groups were enthusiastically endorsing, supporting, and sponsoring Muslims’ upholding of these Islamic principles, would it be analogous to demand Muslims to support same-sex marriage, etc.

But it’s never going to happen, so stop parroting asinine arguments to justify your contribution to the spread of fahisha.