Muhsin Hendricks, the first openly gay imam, was shot dead in a car attack in South Africa. Hendricks, who ran a supportive mosque for marginalized Muslims, faced significant challenges since ...

Following the incident, the police arrested nine individuals, including the mosque's imam, citing the introduction of an unapproved religious practice as the reason for the action, as per a report ...

Muhsin Hendricks was credited by some as being the world’s first openly gay imam and helped Muslims reconcile their faith with their sexual orientation. By Matthew Mpoke Bigg A South African ...

Hendricks came out publicly as a gay imam in the mid-1990s and started a support network and later a mosque for gay Muslims. He advocated for their inclusion through his Al-Ghurbaab Foundation and ...

Across town a week later, a far more low-key ceremony took place at Lakemba’s Imam Ali mosque. There, and at the Great Synagogue across town, the hope was the same: justice, equality and inclusion.

With Ramadan just days a way, their volunteer imam ... Sakeenah Ali’s children, who attended Elliott Magnet Middle School across the street from the mosque, lost their school in the fire.

Footage circulating on social media shows the assassination of the imam in broad daylight. Hendricks gets ready for the start of the Jumu’ah prayer at the Inner Circle Mosque, in Wynberg ...

a pioneering figure dubbed the world's first openly gay imam, has been shot dead in South Africa. The 57-year-old cleric ran a mosque in Cape Town intended as a safe haven for gay and other ...

Hendricks — a South African imam who dedicated his life to helping ... He advocated for inclusion through his Al-Ghurbaah Foundation and ran a mosque in Cape Town specifically for 2SLGBTQ ...

This followed the murder of Imam Hassan Shariff in January 2024 outside a Newark mosque in New Jersey. Hendricks, however, was outspoken on interfaith dialogue, mental health and trauma faced by ...