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News24 | 'Imam Muhsin taught me it's possible to be a believer and a queer person': Murdered cleric lauded

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Imam Muhsin Hendricks was murdered last weekend in Gqeberha in what is believed to have been a targeted killing.

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News24 | 'Imam Muhsin taught me it's possible to be a believer and a queer person': Murdered cleric lauded

Imam Muhsin Hendricks was murdered last weekend in Gqeberha in what is believed to have been a targeted killing.

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‘First openly gay’ imam shot dead in South Africa

CCTV video, verified by CNN, shows the moment the world’s “first openly gay” imam was shot dead in Bethelsdorp, South Africa. Muhsin Hendricks, 58, had established a mosque for LGBTQ+ Muslims in Cape Town, South Africa.

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South Africa: A Call for Justice for Iman and Gay Rights Activist Muhsin Hendricks

Sonke is saddened by the murder of Muhsin Hendricks, a pioneering imam to have openly identified as gay. Hendricks was murdered in the Eastern Cape Province last weekend. The imam ran a mosque established as a sanctuary for queer and other marginalized Muslims.

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Openly Gay Imam Gunned Down in South Africa

On February 15, Muhsin Hendricks, an openly gay imam, Islamic scholar and LGBT rights activist was shot and killed in Gqeberha, South Africa as he was leaving to officiate an interfaith marriage.

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IMSD condemns the assassination of the world’s first openly gay Imam

Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) strongly condemns the assassination of the South African Imam Muhsin Hendricks, a man widely regarded as the world’s first openly gay Muslim imam. The imam, a religious reformer and an activist, was ambushed by two masked men in a pick-up truck while visiting the southern city of Gqeberha on Saturday. While police have yet to establish the motive for the hate crime, political parties and LGBTQ+ organiz…

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The compassionate and inclusive heart of Islam came alive through imam Muhsin Hendricks

Opinion The compassionate and inclusive heart of Islam came alive through imam Muhsin Hendricks Imam Hendricks, who was killed on 15 February, ran a mosque intended as a safe haven for gay and other marginalised Muslims Sanah Ahsan – 21 February 2025 Imam Muhsin Hendricks, pictured in Wynberg, Cape Town, in 2016. Photograph by Rodger Bosch/AFP/Getty Images I first laid eyes on imam Muhsin Hendricks through a television screen in 2007, watching t…

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