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Omar Sarwar

Omar Sarwar is a New York-based writer and gay Muslim activist. He has an M.Phil in modern South Asian history from Columbia University with a focus on political Islam, and has written for the Advocate, Huffington Post Queer Voices, and Patheos.

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Religion Dispatches
In the days of the Trumpian order, American LGBT Muslims, a minority within minorities, find themselves especially vulnerable to the forces of racism, homophobia, and Islamophobia. As a member of this…
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Religion Dispatches
More and more practitioners have grown weary of being repeatedly told “because God says so, end of discussion” when asking why same-sex relationships are prohibited in Islam.
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Religion Dispatches
LGBT Republicans are fine with promoting Islamophobia if it promotes their cause.
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