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Brief But Memorable Encounters With The Police

By Dr. Antar

My first memorable encounter with the police was as an observer in the 1960s. As a teenager I remember watching a black policeman refusing to pay a deposit on soda containers. He angrily pulled out his police badge and told the cashier, “I’m a policeman. I don’t have to pay a deposit.” I knew that what he stated was…

By Dr. Antar Ibn-Stanford

Part IV of IV

1. 26:166--"And leave those whom Allah has created for you to be your wives? Nay, you are a trespassing people!"
2. 26:167-- They said: "If you cease not. O Lout (Lot)! Verily, you will be one of those who are driven out!"
3. 26:168-- He said: "I am, indeed, of those who disapprove with severe anger and fury your (this evil) action (of sodomy).
4. 26:169—"My Lord! Save me and my family from what they…

By Dr. Antar Ibn-Stanford

Part III of IV

The Catholic Church

The Church recognizes that homosexuality is an innate condition in most cases, not a choice, and therefore cannot be considered a sin.

Homosexual sexual activity, however, is seen as a "moral disorder" and "homosexual acts" as "contrary to the natural law".

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church

2396 Among the sins gravely contrary to chastity are masturbation, fornication,…

By Dr. Antar Ibn-Stanford

Part II of IV

Fiqh Positions on Homosexuality

Ahkam al-Qur’an by Muhammad ibn Abdullah aka Ibn al-Arabi

In reference to Q. 7:80, “And (remember) Lot, when he said to his people: "’Do you do the nasty act that no one in the world before you has done,’” Ibn al-Arabi wrote that the nasty act (الفاحشة) is an unlawful sexual act (الزنا). It is an act of disobedience. The verse indicates that the stoning of the people with stones of…