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Muhsin Hendricks
South African gay imam
Imam Muhsin Hendricks | |
|---|---|
| Born | Muhsin Hendricks June 1967 (age 57) Cape Town, South Africa |
| Occupation | Imam |
| Religion | Islam |
Muhsin Hendricks (born June 1967)[1] is a South African imam and Islamic scholar.
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He has been involved in various LGBT Muslim advocacy groups and has been an advocate for greater acceptance of LGBT people within Islam. He has been described as the world's first openly gay imam, having come out in 1996.[2]
Early and personal life
Hendricks was brought up in a traditional Muslim home,[3] and his grandfather was an Islamic cleric.[1] He studied at the University of Islamic Studies in Pakistan.[4] He has stated that his "forefathers are a mixture of Indonesian and Indian background.
They were brought to Cape Town as political prisoners and slaves by the Dutch colonialists".[5]
He married a woman in 1991, and had childr