« Read: In the name
of thy Lord Who createth, createth man from a
clot. Read: And thy Lord is the
most Bounteous, Who teacheth by the pen,
Teacheth man that
which he knew not»
QURAN:
96.1-5
CALEM | 2010 - Manifesto for a moratorium on criminalization of affective and homosexual relationships between consenting adults
"In
many Muslim countries today, millions of queer
brothers and sisters have to cope with stigma, discrimination and
sometimes
violence from fellow believers.
Some Muslims are still expressing direct or indirect violence against
LGBTQI
Muslim minorities. They infrahumanize us, rejecting our sexualities and
loves,
pretending we are not human enough to express a true human
spirituality; that
our very existence ought to be considered as a threat to public order;
in
several Muslim countries homosexuality is even punishable by death
penalty!
Islam is a religion of Peace. Each and every good Muslim’s
duty is to fight
back the violence of homophobia. A small minority of extremists tries
to
promote a hegemonic identity based on an illusory almighty masculinity;
they do
not acknowledge the difference between gender and sexuality.
These extremists use a poor scientific knowledge or apocryphal
Scriptural
evidence to condemn our deep nature. Nonetheless, our beloved
Prophet 
accepted
us as we are; so called “mukhanathun” were serving
our holy prophet’s family,
among his wives and children.
We are respectable members of the community. We do not live in autarky
but we
live amongst Muslim populations everywhere; we pray in your mosque and
accomplish Hajj side by side with you. We are demanding for respect and
inclusion, as exemplified by the Prophet's sunnah.
We are not asking for
special rights; we are asking for our Muslim brothers and sisters to
respect
our basic human rights.
Thus today we, citizens, Muslim personnalities and major international
intellectuals, ask formally a
moratorium so that at term, affective and homosexual relations between
consenting adults, shall be decriminilazied in all Muslim countries and
those
where Islam has it say."
CALEM |
2010 - program
& proposals
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LET'S CHANGE THE WORLD, TOGETHER... CALEM 2010 - the first
CALEM conference - was an initiative of the Citizen network
of the HM2F
(Homosexual Muslims of France).
The
2010 conference was hosted by the LGBT
Federation of France, The Inner Circle
(South Africa), Trans Aides
(France), the International Committee IDAHO
(International Day Against
homophobia), Amnesty International, the Citizen network of
HM2F (France).
In three days, we welcomed 80
participants from 11 countries (among which 4 North African countries);
the
2010 CALEM Manifesto asked for a “moratorium
on criminalization”
of homosexuality (a few months before what is called today the
“Arab spring”
and the UN declaration early 2011, recognizing that "LGBT
rights are
human rights").
Following the first session
of CALEM in October 2010, many associations who could not come to this
first
edition, told us they would attend the CALEM 2011 conference.
Who
WE are
A CALEM 2010 conference organized thanks to TIC - one of the oldest international inclusive Muslim organization.
More information on
"About us"
Or would you be so kind to send us an email info@calem.eu
