The Muslim activist and religious Muhsin Hendricksknown for being the first openly gay magnet in the world, has been killed this Saturday in an ambush against the vehicle in which it moved through the city of Gqeberha.
“Two individuals strangers and with the face covered They left the vehicle and began shooting at the vehicle, “police explained in a statement collected by the BBC.
Hendricks, 57, directed a mosque in Cape City that was also Homosexual refuge and other marginalized Muslims. The murder has already been condemned by LGTBI organizations around the world.
The executive director of the International Association of Lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans and intersex (Ilga), Julia Ehrt, He has urged the authorities to investigate because “we fear that it has been a hate crime.”
“He supported so many people in South Africa and around the world on his journey to reconcile with his faith. And his life has been a will of The healer that is solidarity between communities “he stressed.
The Hendricks Al Ghurbah Foundation has confirmed the death of the magnet in an intentional attack perpetrated on Saturday morning. The president of the Foundation, Abdulmugheeth Petersenhe has asked his followers patience and protection for the relatives of Hendricks.
Hendricks made his homosexuality public in 1996 and caused a bitter controversy in Muslim circles both in Cape Town and in the rest of the world. The same year I founded the inner circle, an organization that gave a safe space for Muslims queer, germ of what was later the MOSJIDUL GHURBAAH MOSQUITA. In 2022 he was immortalized in a documentary entitled The radical.
South Africa was the first country to include in its constitution The prohibition of discrimination by sexual orientation and in 2006 it became the first African country to legalize same -sex marriage.
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