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Muhsin is one of the organizers of Al-Fitra Foundation, a South African support group for lesbian, transgender, and gay Muslims. Islam and homosexuality are seen by many as deeply incompatible. This, according to Muhsin, is why he had to act. "I realized that I'm not alone - these people are going through the very same things that I'm going through. But I've managed, because of my in-depth relationship with God, to reconcile the two. I was completely comfortable saying to the world that I'm gay and I'm Muslim. I wanted to help other people to get there. So that's how I became an activist." This book documents the rarely-heard voices of Muslims who live in secular democratic countries and who are gay, lesbian, and transgender. It weaves original interviews with Muslim activists into a compelling composite picture which showcases the importance of the solidarity of support groups in the effort to change social relationships and achieve justice. This nascent movement is not about being "out" as opposed to being "in the closet." Rather, as the voices of these activists demonstrate, it is about finding ways to live out Islam with dignity and integrity, reconciling their sexuality and gender with their faith and reclaiming Islam as their own. --

A system should be formed, which shall preserve as much as possible can be done, their institutions and laws to the
natives of Hindoostan, and attemper them with the mild spirit of British government.—John BruceJurisprudence is the nexus where authoritative texts, cultural assumptions, and political expediency come together during a crisis. It is
therefore not so much a thing or a system as it is an experience, an interpretative experience. Yet the practice of
jurisprudence is very different from other types of interpretation because it is also an exertion of power. A legal
interpretation is a decision which mobilizes coercive forces to immediately solidify the interpretation into a social
reality. The administrative structure of courts and the legal rhetoric that flows through them disguise jurisprudence as
'a system' rather than revealing its nature as an interpretative experience; this disguise serves to heighten the authority
of these exercises of power and to limit the ability to contest them to specialists.