This interesting review of a new book looking at homosexuality in the Muslim world appears on the Anarchlyst blog. The mention of a different type of ‘honor killing’ in Saudi Arabia caught my eye. [Link fixed]

New Book Sheds Light on Gay Life in the Muslim World
Julaybib Ayoub

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) July 25, 2008 — Following thirty-three people in twenty-two countries, Afdhere Jama paints a complicated picture in “Illegal Citizens”, subtitled “Queer Lives in the Muslim World.”

“I set out to tell the stories of people suffering everywhere,” says Jama, who is the editor of Huriyah, a queer Muslim magazine. “Instead, I was confronted with diverse lives including happy ones–sometimes in places I never imagined.”

Some of the stories are touching, others completely surprise. Like the story about a young man in Iran who clubs all night although he is the son of a high-level Ayatollah or politician and has a completely different life during the day.

“Here were gay and lesbian Iranians doing everything that happens in the Castro (of San Francisco) and more,” Jama says. “That blew me away because I went to the country chasing stories about gays being harassed, arrested and executed.”

But Jama also has disturbing stories to tell like the one about a Saudi gay man executed by his immediate family.
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