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Using every kind of human knowledge AGAINST INFRAHUMANIZATION CALEM – 2010 (Paris – France) Confederation of associations LGBTQI, European and Muslim A conference organized on the initiative of HM2F, thanks to our sister organizations. http://www.homosexuels-musulmans.org/gay_muslims.html A – Infrahumanization, theoretically B – Infrahumanizing sexual minorities C – Is Islam a homophobic religion by nature ? CONCLUSION : Islam is a living, breathing, humanist religion ! 2 http://www.homosexuels-musulmans.org/gay_muslims.html A - THEORETICALY 3 That social phenomenon is tacitly held by an unconscious belief that one’s in-group is more human than an out-group 4 http://www.homosexuels-musulmans.org/gay_muslims.html SOCIAL PHENOMENON Produced by an individual or a group of individuals ; here is the “recipe” to ostracize someone without feeling guilty about it… (doesn’t mean they are not guilty !) 5 http://www.homosexuels-musulmans.org/gay_muslims.html UNCONTROLABLE Infrahumanization is a basic, instinctive reaction ; endangered groups reinforce their group frontiers; scapegoats to catharsis in-group fears ! 6 http://www.homosexuels-musulmans.org/gay_muslims.html ANIMAL INSTINCT - Endorsed by a majority, against a minority Being more numerous helps to thing you are right - Denial of Humanity - Robust scientific proofs (“they have no true human emotions” - “they are beasts” - “they have no human faith” - “it is not a sin to hurt them”...) The more participants infrahumanize the out-group member the less likely they were to help. 7 http://www.homosexuels-musulmans.org/gay_muslims.html NO emotions, NO faith “Denial of humanness associated with extreme intergroup violence such as genocide” (Leyens & al.) [1] Leyens & al. (2009). “From infra-humanization to discrimination: The mediation of symbolic threat needs egalitarian norms”. Journal of experimental social psychology; 45-2, p.336-344. 8 http://www.homosexuels-musulmans.org/gay_muslims.html MORTAL SOCIAL ILLUSION http://www.homosexuels-musulmans.org/gay_muslims.html B - INFRAHUMANIZING sexual minorities (personnal reflexion, no true or faulse answer…) 9 (like Leyens & al. said that violence, sometimes could genocide an entire population : Nazis, apartheid, sexual minorities… scapegoat !) 10 http://www.homosexuels-musulmans.org/gay_muslims.html Why is it so important for them insist on homosexuality, as “one of the most sensitive issues facing Muslims living in the West, particularly in Europe” ? -The Manifesto, telling who we are and what are we fighting for - An article,“Homosexuality and Islam” ; he deconstruction of the homophobic violents opinions from some islamists. -And more inch’Allah … 11 http://www.homosexuels-musulmans.org/gay_muslims.html This is a question we need to think of all together. HM2F concrete proposals for our network : The executioner need infrahumanization to violate the victim’s human dignity Infrahumanization makes the victim suffering, it certainly alienates the executioner 12 http://www.homosexuels-musulmans.org/gay_muslims.html We shall insist on “Rahma”, an entire surat dedicated to empathy Continue pointing at stigma, & discrimination, fight prejudices 18th century European doctors were wrong, direct indirect violence Neither Islam nor LGBT have anything to win from direct nor indirect violence of infrahumanization , dehumanization !!! [2] http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/ [3] American Psychiatric Association - DSMIV: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual : http://www.psych.org/mainmenu/research/dsmiv/dsmivtr.aspx [4] Amnesty international report : http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/POL30/003/2008/en/d77ce647-4cd3-11dd-bca2bb9d43f3e059/pol300032008eng.pdf 13 http://www.homosexuels-musulmans.org/gay_muslims.html Peaceful dialogue to educate, purify ourselves, others representation Non hegemonic, dogmatic, Universal identitary representation (educate all Muslims, us and them; purify our/their cognitive representations about being LGBT Fight Stigma, discriminations Fight Violence Promote Peace and Knowledge Challenging extremismS ! Against Muslims, & LGBT Muslims 14 http://www.homosexuels-musulmans.org/gay_muslims.html التسفية و التربية C - ISLAM is not HOMOPHOBIC! 15 http://www.homosexuels-musulmans.org/gay_muslims.html forget our prophet’s “Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim which belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly. Do not, therefore, do injustice to yourselves.” (many other hadiths and Quran’s verse about jurisdictional right / wrong : collected anyway 200 years after our prophet’s death ASWS)) What could be more important for a free willing Muslim than his/her human dignity !? 16 http://www.homosexuels-musulmans.org/gay_muslims.html We shall never wisdom ASWS : - Accepted that « mukhannathun » served his children and wives. - He defended what we call today transidentitary Muslims against what we call today « homophobia. - People of Loth quoted in the quran are about violent sexual relationships, devoted to a pagan goddess (nothing to do with “homosexuality” or love between same sex consentent individuals). 17 http://www.homosexuels-musulmans.org/gay_muslims.html Our Prophet Mohammed - “Rules” are confounded with traditions - Traditions change from one spatiotemporal context to another We have to humanism ! embrace the (Scott Siraj al-Aqq – “Homosexuality and Islam”, 2010) 18 Islamic http://www.homosexuels-musulmans.org/gay_muslims.html Religion is not about rules, but about secularized humanism… - - We have no choice but to see the truth : Religion claims to come from the Universal our Lord Imams and philosophers for human rights, against homophobia (imam T. Oubrou) Modern humanist representation added to the Islamic theological corpus (A. Bidar) We are building our own “LGBTQI Islamic Theology liberation” 19 http://www.homosexuels-musulmans.org/gay_muslims.html That is a global renewal that Islam needs, feminists LGBT Muslims are at the forefront of it, and infrahumanization has no place in such Islamic humanism … 20 http://www.homosexuels-musulmans.org/gay_muslims.html We have to fight back, peacefully, the violence of infrahumanization – which is an animal, instinctive group social reaction. We are lucky and blessed to be a part of that rising Islamic LGBTQI activism. www..homosexuels-musulmans.org Sexuality is a benediction that ought to be leaved in Peace – Islam means being in Peace. http://www.homosexuels-musulmans.org/gay_muslims.html “But lo! with hardship goeth ease , Lo! with hardship goeth ease ; So when thou art relieved , still toil 94.8 . And strive to please thy Lord.” (Quran : 95, 5-8) اللة اعلم 22 [2] http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/ [3] American Psychiatric Assocaition - DSMIV: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual : http://www.psych.org/mainmenu/research/dsmiv/dsmivtr.aspx [4] Amnesty international report : http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/POL30/003/2008/en/d77ce6474cd3-11dd-bca2-bb9d43f3e059/pol300032008eng.pdf M. Hendricks answer to T. Ramadan’s article entitled “Islam and homosexuality” : http://theinnercircle.org.za/?p=1497 Hegemonic masculinity : http://history.anu.edu.au/files/documents/Connell&Mess_HegemonicMasc.pdf A. Bidar (2008). « L'islam sans soumission: pour un existentialisme musulman », p.36. Albin Michel, Paris S.S.A. Kugle (2010). “homosexuality and Islam”. Oneworld Publications; Oxford, England. M. Al-Ghazali (1981). « Le Tabernacle des lumières », traduction de Roger Deladrière. Editions du Seuil, Paris. I. Ibn-Kathir (2007). « As-Sira : la biographie du prophète Mohammed, les débuts de l’islam », traduction de Messaoud Boudjenoun. Editions Universel, Paris. F. Lenoir (2008). “Petit traité de l’histoire des religions”. Plon, Paris. 23 http://www.homosexuels-musulmans.org/gay_muslims.html [1] Leyens & al. (2009). “From infra-humanization to discrimination: The mediation of symbolic threat needs egalitarian norms”. Journal of experimental social psychology; 45-2, p.336-344.