So what caused Muslim societies to go from coolly reading homoerotic poetry to outlawing and stigmatising same-sex love? It’s tough to nail down an exact reason but here’s an interesting coincidence: there are five Muslims countries where being gay isn’t a crime. All that the five – Mali, Jordan, Indonesia, Turkey and Albania – share in common is that they were never colonised by the British.

Shoaib Daniyal in Scroll.in. Orlando shooting: It’s different now, but Muslims have a long history of accepting homosexuality Muslim societies have ignored their own history of accepting homosexuality, latching on to a twisted colonial legacy instead.

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