Keep on talking: gay imam engages Africans in pandemic

December 19, 2020 compassq 5 THINGS TO KNOW, HEROES, HEROES & HISTORY, LIFESTYLES, RELIGION Comments Off on Keep on talking: gay imam engages Africans in pandemic
mam Muhsin Hendricks poses for a photo with sponsors and attendees of his wokshop on gender identity and Islam in Cape Town, South Africa. December 14, 2020. (Photo: Handout via Muhsin Hendricks.)

It’s hard to pull up a chair and talk sex or fly imams over closed borders for gender training in a pandemic.

But Imam Muhsin Hendricks wasn’t about to let COVID-19 destroy his carefully crafted Islamic training programme – he’d faced down…