Imam Daayiee Abdullah arrives by bus, sweaty and lugging a green bag stuffed with a Koran, two books of poetry by Persian mystic Rumi and three Islamic prayer rugs. Tonight, he's speaking to a room ...

WASHINGTON — Imam Daayiee Abdullah arrives by bus, sweaty and lugging a green bag stuffed with a Koran, two books of poetry by Persian mystic Rumi and three Islamic prayer rugs. Tonight, he’s speaking ...

Authorities have identified the Orlando gunman as 29-year-old Omar Mateen. He was born in 1986 in New York to Afghan parents. Since 2007 Mateen had worked as a security guard at G4S, the largest ...

Imam Daayiee Abdullah and Reverend Dwayne Johnson discuss LGBT rights in the U.S. and how those rights are reconciled with religious beliefs, at the 2014 Senior Journalists Seminar on August 23, 2014.

Two of the world’s three major religions – Christianity and Judaism – have made relatively great strides in welcoming LGBT people into their communities and in considering LGBT equality an issue of ...

Daayiee Abdullah is helping gay Muslims reconcile their sexuality with their faith. Daayiee Abdullah had not yet become an imam when he was called upon to perform his first act as a Muslim spiritual ...

WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- A gay Muslim leader is not thinking about homophobia after Orlando – he’s instead asking people to remember Muhammad Ali. "We have to remember that not all people are the same.

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