Can Islam combat the rise of homophobia, misogyny and racism?
Hatred and racism addressed: All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over black nor a black has any superiority over white except by piety and good action. 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. Remember, one day you will appear before God and answer your deeds. So beware, do not stray from the path of righteousness after I am gone. (Last sermon of the Prophet Muhammad pbuh) As for being gay (And when I say that I mean participating in sodomy). It is wrong and you know that as a muslim. This life is a temporally illusion do not allow these worldly things to become a distraction for you. There is nothing good in this world. Anything good in this worl
It could, but not any more than Christianity. There are cultures in the world that adopted Islam, but the practices of these cultures are of the culture and not of the religion, like in Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Afghanistan, who follow the Wahhabi tradition of resisting change and maintaining the “old ways” of living in a similar manner as the Amish have in the US and Canada, only their culture is much older, so their practices seem much more antiquated to us in the west. I want to point out that the terrorists and extremists of al Queda are predominantly of the Wahabbi tradition, and not of other more liberal cultures that have adopted Islam.
I’m not sure many wants to combat these evils In Ezekiel 16:48-50 God accuses Jerusalem with reference to Sodom, saying Jerusalem “never did what you and your daughters have done.” He explains that the sin of Sodom was that “She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me.
