Out of the Closet, at Gunpoint

I don't know anything about religion of any sort. I know though what it is like to be afraid of someone because they have decided they know what is right for you and are willing to hurt you to get what they want. I am very happy for you that you managed to come through all of that and still lead a happy and productive life. Much luck to you and your family whomever they may be :)

You are indeed blessed to be alive today.

I am so glad that you escape and that you are telling your story. A person has a right to be who they are, and they should still have the love and support from their families. My daughter blurred out to her father and I that she was gay and that their was nothing that we can do to change that. My husband is having a problem with her homosexuality and I guess in a way I am too! But she is our daughter and I still love and support her. She has enough to worry about from the world.

You are indeed lucky to have escaped. Some men have been beaten and/or killed by people like the one you met. I don't see why people think they have a right to judge others, because how will you judge someone? You have only your experiences and what you have been taught to guide your judgment. If your knowledge gained by that is flawed, then your judgment will be flawed also. God, who is perfect and flawless, will judge everyone in his own way, in his own time. Don't worry about it, but pray about it, and may God have mercy on us all.

a mans sexuality isnt bound towards women but men, animals, children and various other things and has no bounds or limitations. Does that mean that we accept it the way it is? You have to guide your sexuality in the right direction you dont just go around screwing whatever you feel attracted to. If youre a muslim then isnt it according to your own religion that you have to marry a woman and arent allowed to even fornicate with someone you arent married to? In the past there was a severe punishment for such acts but in todays messed up world humans have chosen to lose their humanity in the name of human rights!

MY BROTHER IS GAY I USE TO GET MAD A HIM WHEN I WAS YOUNG BUT I UNDERSTAND NOW THAT IS NORMAL FOR THEM TO BE GAY .JUST LET IT BE .

Wasn't it Jesus who preached " judge not, lest ye be judged?" Was it not Jesus who warned the mob that wished to stone Mary Magedelene "let he who is without sin cast the first stone?" Before you assume to speak for God and Jesus, who clearly preached of the virtues of tolerance and understanding, you should look within. Can you swear upon the fate of your immortal soul that you have not sinned, or that you are not a sinnner? I don't believe anyone walking the earth at this moment can claim to be perfect or without sin. So please, "judge not, lest ye be judged."

Are you saying this man should deny his religious identity just because his being gay can't be reconciled with what you interpret as being a proper adherence to the Muslim faith? Regardless of your faith, there is no denying that we all come from the same source, and the color of a person's skin or their sexual orentation doesn't change that. Why judge another when your prejudicial viewpoint does no more than incite separatism, or worse yet, a hatred borne of ignorance? The world can be so much better for all of us, if we would only focus on finding common ground as opposed to grasping so firmly to the ideologies that divide us. Agree to disagree, but please do so while respecting another human being's right to live his/her life and pursue his/her own path to happiness, especially when that path does no harm to you or others.

Are you saying this man should deny his religious identity just because his being gay can't be reconciled with what you interpret as being a proper adherence to the Muslim faith? Regardless of your faith, there is no denying that we all come from the same source, and the color of a person's skin or their sexual orentation doesn't change that. Why judge another when your prejudicial viewpoint does no more than incite separatism, or worse yet, a hatred borne of ignorance? The world can be so much better for all of us, if we would only focus on finding common ground as opposed to grasping so firmly to the ideologies that divide us. Agree to disagree, but please do so while respecting another human being's right to live his/her life and pursue his/her own path to happiness, especially when that path does no harm to you or others.

Muslim + Gay = oxymoron. Who pays the dowry for marriage, you or your Buddhist partner? Or, wait, are you even married? Or are you -- gasp -- committing adultery with another man? Admit you are gay, but please, for the sake of the rest of us, leave out the Muslim part.

*** stabbers suck!!

*** stabbers suck!

Glad to hear things got better for you Mr. Mahbub. Best wishes to you and your family!

I have to tell you, as the ex wife of a gay man, it makes me very nervous that your parents kept insisting you hadn't met the right girl yet. I think I was that girl for a closet queen who was a "confirmed bachelor", we were married for 15 years. Glad you came out to your parents and are safe and happy today. Just imagine if you had married a woman, and everyone pressured her into silence. How devastating this is.

You were lucky to emerge unharmed from that encounter. But you were even luckier because it gave you the push/motivation to tell the truth about yourself. Best wishes to you and your partner.

Why does human society subject a known, measurable portion of us to the bigotry which makes hate-fueled blackmail such as this possible? Does society need to hurt some of us, to make itself feel better? Homosexuality is ancient across human cultures. It is genetic (despite the contrary, religiously driven lies). It exists in virtually all mammalian species. It is thoroughly normal behavior, which does no harm to an overpopulated planet. So what is wrong ... what is so very sick in much of human society that they must hate us, or at best damn us with faint praise, even though many of humanity's acknowledged greats were homosexual (Plato, Alexander, Michaelangelo, DaVinci ... look it up, folks).