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Islamic views on homosexuality' are influenced by the rulings prescribed by the Qur'an and the teachings of the Islamic prophet Muhammed. The mainstream interpretation of Qur'anic verses and hadith condemn sexual acts between members of the same sex. The traditional tolerance, literary and religious, for pederastic love affairs which according to Khaled El-Rouayheb had been prevalent since the 800's began to be eroded in the mid-1800s by the adoption of European Victorian attitudes by the new Westernized elite.

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  • Islamic views on homosexuality' are influenced by the rulings prescribed by the Qur'an and the teachings of the Islamic prophet Muhammed. The mainstream interpretation of Qur'anic verses and hadith condemn sexual acts between members of the same sex. The traditional tolerance, literary and religious, for pederastic love affairs which according to Khaled El-Rouayheb had been prevalent since the 800's began to be eroded in the mid-1800s by the adoption of European Victorian attitudes by the new Westernized elite.
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  • Islamic views on homosexuality' are influenced by the rulings prescribed by the Qur'an and the teachings of the Islamic prophet Muhammed. The mainstream interpretation of Qur'anic verses and hadith condemn sexual acts between members of the same sex. The Qur'an cites the story of the "people of Lot" (also known as the Sodomites) who were destroyed by the wrath of Allah because they engaged in homosexual acts. The legal punishment for sodomy has varied among juristic schools: some prescribe capital punishment; while other prescribe a milder discretionary punishment. Homosexual activity is a crime and forbidden in most Muslim-majority countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc. In some relatively secular or multi-religious Muslim-majority countries such as Indonesia, Jordan and Turkey this isn't the case. Despite this, homoerotic themes were present in poetry and other literature by some Muslims which celebrated male love, and were more common than expressions of attraction to women. Writer Irshad Manji, a lesbian herself and a staunch critic of orthodox Islam, is of the opinion that homosexuality is permissible within Islam; however, this remains a minority viewpoint. Within the Shi'a school of thought in Islam, the Ayatollah Khomeini has argued the legality of sex-change operations if a man is homosexual, and feels effeminate. The traditional tolerance, literary and religious, for pederastic love affairs which according to Khaled El-Rouayheb had been prevalent since the 800's began to be eroded in the mid-1800s by the adoption of European Victorian attitudes by the new Westernized elite. Eminent scholars of Islam, such as Sheikh ul-Islam Imam Malik, Imam Shafi amongst others, ruled that Islam disallowed homosexuality and ordained capital punishment for a person guilty of it.
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