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> I'm sure there are plenty of Muslims who are equally frustrated over being automatically judged by the standards of the worst members of their community.

I don't believe this is true.

I'm from a huge Muslim family. The majority of the women/girls in my family are not educated, had marriages arranged from birth (usually to first cousins) and the men in the family genuinely believe that this is the in their best interest. This is somewhat representative of life for girls/women in rural Pakistan, a country of 180,000,000+ people, 95% of which are Muslim.

My family is full of people who find homosexuality repugnant. Homosexuality is a crime against nature in Pakistan, punishable with a prison sentence. All Muslims I've met, in my family or otherwise, inside and outside of Pakistan, believe that this is a perfectly good state of affairs and have no interest in inclusivity for groups they deem inappropriate.




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