“Think you have challenges in your life? What do you think the challenges are for a gay, black, Muslim who is the United States’ first openly gay Imam?”

Read more about Daayiee Abdullah, who lives and works in Washington, D.C.: Meet America’s Only Openly Gay Imam

But, isn’t being homosexual un-Islamic? No. As Abdullah points out, “there is absolutely no mention in the Koran about punishing gays, let alone killing them.”