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Message from #AKATU ~ When I Lived As Christopher Columbus "No Land Is Owned On Earth And Yet Even In Those Days, People Claimed Territories And Named Them As They Desired. I Followed This Bad Example And Made Declarations That Were Only In My Mind. I Felt Gratitude And... show more
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In the past few weeks, many Arabs and Muslims have discovered that I am not heterosexual. Since then, they have weaponized my sexuality against me. Words like "gay" and "faggot" are hurled at me every day now. So let me get this straight. I am gay, and I am not ashamed of who I am. I was ashamed of myself in Yemen; for twenty years, I was taught to hate myself. As a child, I learned in school from my Islamic Studies teachers that I should be killed for something I never chose. Every night, I prayed to God, asking Him to cure me from the gay ”phase”, to make me "normal" so that I could go to Heaven as a good Muslim. My culture and my people convinced me that my very existence was a sin, that I was sick, and that the only cure for this supposed sickness was the death penalty. And honestly, I stand with Jews today, not as an act of defiance against my culture, as some believe. But because, as a gay man, I know what it feels like to be hated and loathed for something that I did not choose. Gay never occupied a Muslim country, yet we face death penalties in 13 Muslim countries and jail in 43 Muslim countries – simply for being gay. I stand against this. It’s called self-preservation. I am not ashamed of my sexuality. I am ashamed of my culture that seeks my blood because of something I did not choose. So, go ahead, call me gay, a faggot, a murtad, a kaffer. I no longer fear your words or knives. And most certainly, I am not afraid of the "Hell" that you keep speaking of. I lived through hell under Sharia for 20 years, where I was forced to conceal my identity so that I wouldn’t get killed. For simply exiting. For being different. I am privileged enough to say that I no longer fear you and that I no longer live under Sharia anymore. But I do fear for my gay brothers and sisters who still live among you and must endure a life of fear, denial, and taught self-hatred. Who are told in schools and mosques that they are sins and that they should be killed. I fear for their lives and I aim to be a voice for them. Because when I grew up in Yemen, I did not see a single person speak up for my rights and my right to existence. I wanna be the person that I wish 14-year-old me watched on the internet after coming back home from Islamic Studies classes, where my teachers taught me to be fearful of God and to believe that I should either conceal my identity or be killed.
Luai Ahmed
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