BERLIN (AP) — Ali Darwich, a gay Muslim influencer in Berlin, picks up a date from his plate, takes a sip of water, and addresses the 15 friends sitting around the table and breaking the Ramadan fast with him.
The 33-year-old German with Palestinian and Lebanese roots — who goes by @alifragt or “Ali asks” on Instagram — has a quickly growing following on Instagram, where he draws attention to the difficulties of living as a young, queer Muslim and calls for more tolerance and inclusiveness.
“Tonight we want to send a message that no matter where a person comes from, no matter who that person loves, no matter how queer that person is, they cannot be too queer … because they are exactly as they should be,” Darwich says, smiling at the diverse group of Muslims and Christians, Germans and immigrants, gay and straight people sharing this meal with him as the sun sets over Berlin.
I mean one that supports equal human rights, protection of women and children, social justice, outlawing discrimination based on leaving a religion and removes religion from government at all levels.
So exactly not the christo nationalism, Zionist and Islamic systems that cause so many problems in the world.
They make as if each is so special, but they are all just different flavours of the problematic system of control by the elite.
Are there any nations like that? The UK has places reserved for religion in its parliament for example. The US has shitty slogans like “In god we trust” written everywhere. I remember visiting Myanmar before this current civil war and the Muslim hate by the majority buddhists was near ubiquitous to the point of people wearing tshirts proudly announcing their discrimination and India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Russia etal have all accelerated backwards in those aspects
The US are UK are poor examples of progressive western values. Look to Scandinavia and northern Europe for the best examples.