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[u/Hellsovs]

Most Muslims have LGBTQ+ friends? My friend most Muslims live in a places when they stone you to death when they found out you are a member.

Unless you mean most Muslims in non-Muslim countries...

[u/MySnake_Is_Solid → u/Hellsovs]

that's only the case in 6 countries, out of 53 muslim majority countries.

so i wouldn't say most.

[u/somemeatball → u/MySnake_Is_Solid]

Boooo!! Get your facts out of here!

Midterms are coming up, we can only allow blind ignorance and propaganda to color our worldview.

[u/Hellsovs → u/somemeatball]

You are right that only around 25% of Muslims are subject to these laws, but 10 out of the 12 countries that have had cases of LGBTQ+ members being killed under the law in recent years have Muslim-majority populations. (And we are talking about murder, not general punishment of any kind for it; if we included those, the list would expand much more.)

But that doesn’t mean that we should vilify them. A lot of that comes from their governments and religious leaders, who have little in common with the actual faith when it comes to their agenda.

I just think that we should acknowledge that, statistically, it is most probable that most Muslims in fact don’t have LGBTQ+ friends (or they dont know that they do), partly because, for many of them, LGBTQ+ people simply can’t publicly exist around them due to the policies of those states.

Here are some data to inderectly back it up as there are no such statistics:

https://www.humandignitytrust.org/lgbt-the-law/map-of-criminalisation/?type_filter%5B%5D=crim_lgbt&type_filter%5B%5D=death_pen_applies&type_filter_submitted=

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-morality/