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IMSD Takes On Right Wing Muslims Ridiculing LGBTQIA+ Community

Mar 17, 2023 | Pratirodh Bureau

For gender and sexual minorities, structural loneliness accompanies their survival due to the way society places limits on their very existence (Aashish R Gautam, Unsplash)

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A secular democratic platform of Muslims in India on Friday criticised the right wing Muslim leaders in Kerala for allegedly “ridiculing and demonising” the Muslims who are part of the LGBTQIA+ community.

Sharply criticising the leaders of certain outfits, including that of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), who have questioned the logic behind the reports that a trans-man has delivered a baby in Kerala, Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) said it is a tragic irony that while the minority Muslim community in India is itself the target of rampant Islamophobia, the conservatives among them are hurling hate speech at the sexual minorities (minority within the minority).

In a statement, the forum of Muslims, who according to them are committed to the values of democracy, secularism, equality, and justice, said it strongly condemned “the concerted effort by the Muslim right wing in Kerala — including leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), and some Muslim-run websites — to ridicule, vilify, denigrate and demonise Muslims” who are part of the LGBTQIA+ community.

“It is a tragic irony that while the minority Muslim community in India is itself the target of rampant Islamophobia, the conservatives among them are hurling hate speech at the sexual minorities (minority within the minority). What logic or ethics makes Islamophobia wrong but homophobia, queerphobia, or transphobia right? Not surprisingly, the Muslim right has much in common with the Hindu right,” it said.

The signatories of the statement included eminent personalities like poet, lyricist Javed Akhtar, actor Naseeruddin Shah and Teesta Setalvad. The statement observed that the latest trigger for the “fulminations” is the news last month of a transgender couple from Kerala — Zahad Fazil, a trans-man and Ziya Payal, a trans-woman — having decided to be biological parents of a baby.

The couple reportedly took this decision because adoption is not an option for transgender persons, it said. “What perhaps added to the fervour of the self-appointed custodians of morality is the fact that Kerala’s health minister Veena George promptly congratulated the couple on the phone and directed the Kozhikode Medical College to provide all treatment for free. She also arranged for breast milk to be provided to the baby from the human milk bank,” it said.

The forum said being targets of hate politics themselves, Muslims should know the difference between free speech and hate speech. “Comparing homosexuality to paedophilia, targeting members of the LGBTQIA+ community with words and expressions such as “a shame”, “mentally ill”, “worst kind of people”, “people in need of treatment” etc are hate speech, not free speech,” it said.

The statement further said the very Constitution which guarantees to Muslims the right to freely profess, practice and propagate their faith cannot but also guarantee to sexual minorities their right to publicly proclaim their presence, hold a Pride Parade.

“The United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) begins with the recognition ‘of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family…’ So says the Constitution of India too,” it said.

Even as the humiliated, bruised and battered Indian Muslim community struggles for its own right to a dignified life, it must learn to respect and uphold the “right to dignity” of all citizens, the statement added.

As the transgender community in Kerala celebrated the birth of the baby for the trans-couple Ziya Paval and Zahad, senior IUML leader M K Muneer said homosexual couples can never conceive and termed as “hollow” the claim that the person who had delivered a baby in Kerala recently was a trans-man. “Those who believe in such wonders are living in a fool’s paradise,” Muneer had said while addressing a programme organised by Wisdom Islamic Conference.

Tags: Conservatives, Hindu Right, Indian Muslims, Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy, Islamophobia, LGBTQIA+ Community, minority within minority, Muslim Forum, Muslim Right, Muslims, Muslims in India, Pratirodh

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