And it was very common for older men to have sex with younger, beardless men. Persianate cultures, all of them Muslim, dominated modern day India and Arab world. And it shared a lot of similarities with the Ancient Greeks. The Islamic empires, (Ottoman, Safavid/Qajar, Mughals), shared a common culture.
1 Ancient Muslim borrowed culture from the boy-loving Ancient Greeks The truth is many Muslims alive today believe the prophet Muhammad supported and protected sexual and gender minorities.īut go back to the beginning, and you’ll see there is far more homosexuality in Islam than you might have ever thought before. They formally ruled gay sex wasn’t a crime in 1858.īut as Christians came over from the west to colonize, they infected Islam with homophobia.
The Ottoman Empire, the seat of power in the Muslim world, didn’t view lesbian or gay sex as taboo for centuries. Islam once considered homosexuality to be one of the most normal things in the world.
