As Pride Month concluded on 30th June, Islamists took to Twitter to spew choicest homophobic tweets claiming how homosexuality is against Quran. Some Islamists said that since Muslims are answerable to Allah, they need to understand that homosexuality is Haram in Islam.
https://twitter.com/FatimaTaj94/status/1277611735558451210?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwSome urged fellow Muslims to teach their children to be unapologetic Muslims and not to support homosexuality ‘just because’ it is ‘becoming normal’.
https://twitter.com/OmarKhayyamCha1/status/1277606695242362880?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwOne Islamist also added the hashtag #save_your_children_from_gays in his homophobic tweet.
https://twitter.com/007Dilnawaz/status/1277649185144107008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw One Islamist also claimed LGBT community people are the ‘cursed people’ in Quran. https://twitter.com/imzeeshanazad/status/1277633795601162240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw One even claimed there is consensus on the entire global ‘ummah’ on homosexuality being sin. https://twitter.com/007Dilnawaz/status/1278214862653362177?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwAnd there were more
https://twitter.com/KhanNaseemnitw1/status/1277632581920415746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Some have even vowed to overcome the ‘pride’ with the help of Allah. https://twitter.com/Bey_of_Beys/status/1278263724046823424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/ommoath2018/status/1277618249350426630?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwHomosexuality and Islam
As per Quran, ‘People of Lot’ were destroyed by the ‘wrath of God’ because men had sex with men. Some Hadith collections also condemn homosexuality and transgender acts. Male homosexual acts are prescribed death penalty. Many Islamic countries have death penalty for homosexuality.