Straight in a Crooked World

As Singapore caves in to the homosexual lobby, Muslims here must remain steadfast in guarding themselves and their loved ones from falling astray.

The homosexual agenda is fast gaining ground in Singapore.

Earlier last year, homosexual activists tried to alter the country’s laws to recognise anal sex as a legitimate form of sexual intercourse. While the effort was a failure, the episode has garnered enough sympathy and visibility towards the homosexual cause.

Today, speaking out against homosexuality is fast becoming some sort of crime. Being gay or having lesbian tendencies is accepted as part of an ‘alternative lifestyle’. Us who make our opinion known against homosexuality are being lambasted as ‘intolerant and bigoted’ while they who condone anal sex are being exalted as ‘enlightened and educated’.

Teenagers and children are not spared from the homosexual agenda either. A sex education guide distributed to schools in Singapore by the local women’s group Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE), teaches students that “anal sex can be healthy or neutral if practised with consent and with a condom” and that “homosexuality is perfectly normal. Just like heterosexuality, it is simply the way you are.”

At the rate at which events are unfolding, it is my prediction that one day, the homosexual lobby will make it illegal to even speak out against gays and lesbians – similar to what the Jewish lobby has achieved in Europe who made the questioning of the holocaust a crime.

Sadly, even religious groups here have decided to stay in neutral gear when it comes to the issue. Mosques and churches here have chosen to remain relatively silent in the light of nation-wide homosexual debates - even though the Bible and Quran have clearly commanded their followers to speak out against these sexual perversions.

As prophesised by Muhammad, the end of days will be characterized by widespread sins and sexual promiscuity of various natures. Some day, tolerance of homosexuality will give way to full acceptance in this country. When this happens, the Muslim community must resist the temptation to cave in to conformity and political correctness like everyone else, and rally around the teachings of our Prophet and the Quran.

This effort must start today for there are signs that the disease is slowly creeping into our society. There has to be a greater resolution amongst our leaders, mosques and institutions to educate our youngsters on the calamities of homosexuality from an Islamic perspective.

For a start, topics on homosexuality have to be consciously adopted in the existing curriculum of our youngster’s religious education and discoursed adjacently with more conventional topics on sexuality education. Our youngsters must be made aware of the various sexual perversions that are permeating society and the reasons why Islam forbids them. They must be inoculated on the threats they pose towards our values which have centred on the family as the basic unit of society.

Next, Muslim leaders cannot continue to turn a blind eye towards nation-wide homosexuality debates. Islam’s view on homosexuality as a sexual perversion must be communicated clearly and visibly for the reference of the younger and more impressionable generation of Muslims who may be swayed by secular ideals.

On top of that, there has to be greater effort to educate parents to look out for and handle sexually deviant behaviours in their children –either heterosexual or homosexual. Self help groups in the community are currently engaged in an intense battle to stem the tide of teenage pregnancies among the Muslim community. It will be beneficial if an equal amount of effort be placed to educate the community on homosexual relationships and the damage it does to society and the family values that we hold dear.

Finally, the community needs to look at the feasibility in establishing a self-help programme that caters specifically to the needs of local Muslims who are facing homosexual tendencies and have indicated their desire for help. The topic of homosexuality is not new in Islam and the religion does have a system to rehabilitate sexual deviants who have strayed from the path. It is about time we train scholars and counsellors who are apt in this particular field, a field that will keep the community straight in a world that has turned crooked.



"Guide us to the Straight Way: the Way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, not of those who have earned Your anger nor of those who go astray."

Al-Quran Chapter 1, Verse 6-7.