The United Ulama Council of SA is furious about the Tutu Foundation's criticism of a Muslim Judicial Council fatwa on LGBTQ+ and Islam. It backed up the Muslim Judicial Council's view that LGBTQ+ people would fall outside the fold of Islam. | itchybyte
They say the Tutu Legacy Foundation and Tutu IP trust crossed the red line by telling them to change their religious practices.
The Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation's Niclas Kjellstrom-Matseke and Archbishop Tutu IP Trust's Dr Mamphela Ramphele said in a joint statement: The position on LGBTQ+ relationships was contained in a recent MJC statement, which also provided a follow-up clarification by its Fatwa Committee that Islam, through its primary sources of legislation,"unequivocally prohibits same-sex actions and, by extension, same-sex marriages".
The council, representing Sunni Islamic scholars, drew on the Quran's telling of events in Sodom and specifically criticises men for satisfying their desires with men instead of women: The council feels the demand by Tutu's organisations for a change in Islamic"religious practices" is nothing short of an attempt to subvert the text of the Quran and deny Muslims public expression.
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