islam, homophobia and amira’s story
sorry but i need to get this off my chest. i keep seeing a lot of posts abt how kasim is “taking away” from amira’s story.
let’s talk a little bit about why his storyline is directly involved with her relationship to her faith. and nonmuslims dont even THINK of replying and telling me i’m wrong bc wallahi bro i will throw a misba7a at you
i know it’s really hard to see amira’s love story and amira’s story about her faith get “distracted” from. i know we’ve seen it in so many different skams where the sana’s story is taken from her
amira, and all of the sanas but amira especially, is an incredibly progressive muslim. she accepted cris’s coming out with open arms, it’s been alluded to that in the past she may have had a few drinks, she’s never critical or judgmental about her friends’ sex lives. she understands that islam is part of her but it’s not everyone else’s life. amira is a really strong-willed character who deeply loves her faith but can recognize that in practice, there are aspects of islam that aren’t necessarily in agreement with the rest of the world.
i hate to tell you this but islam is not an lgbtq+ friendly religion
i mean, most AREN’T but you will find a LOT more christians and churches in the world that will embrace, accept and love their gay brothers and sisters
this is NOT A THING in islam. it’s BECOMING, slowly, a thing. the first time i heard of an lgbtq mosque was when i was in high school years ago and as a teenager, i was SHOCKED
as an adult and an lgbtq muslim myself, i struggle CONSTANTLY with the battle between being muslim and bein’ gay as hell and kasim is DEALING with that
you’re upset his parents will be villanized? that’s CLOSE to reality. the MOST close to reality i’ve heard. do you know how many muslim men i know that, without BLINKING an eye, say they’d straight up disown their kid if they were gay? or worse. kasim’s fear is justified.
what amira is being confronted with is HER islam vs the widely-practiced islam that DOES have homophobic tradition. can that change? absolutely. but skam italia introduced a gay muslim that was a bg character
skam espana is giving us a gay muslim character who is also a moc who is highlighting a VERY serious issue in the islamic world. and amira, who is loving and accepting and a decent human being, is being CONFRONTED with that reality because HER ISLAM, her practiced, beautiful islam isn’t what everyone else practices. she knows kasim has a real reason to be worried about coming out
seriously, stop looking at everything that isn’t “amira’s problem” and saying that it’s “taking away” from her. amira is dealing with this intertwined reality of her religion, her culture, and her personal beliefs. what she knows is right vs what she knows is wrong.
some of yall want islam to be represented sooo badly but arent willing to admit that it comes with flaws
muslims confronting homophobia IS IMPORTANT
muslims acknowleding that their islam is not “less” because they are gay is IMPORTANT
muslims FACING that muslims NEED TO CHANGE their thinking about the lgbtq+ community IS IMPORTANT
so seriously shut the fuck up
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