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Muhsin Hendricks

Imam
Muhsin Hendricks
BornJune 1967
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Died15 February 2025(2025-02-15) (aged 57)
Bethelsdorp, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Cause of deathMurder
EducationBachelor's degree in Classical Arabic and Islamic sciences[1]
Alma materUniversity of Islamic Studies [ur], Karachi, Pakistan[1]
OccupationImam
Children3
Ecclesiastical career
ReligionIslam

Muhsin Hendricks (June 1967 – 15 February 2025) was a South African imam, Islamic scholar and LGBTQ activist. He was involved in many LGBTQ Muslim activism groups. He was a supporter of greater acceptance of LGBTQ people within Islam. He was seen as the world's first openly gay imam, having come out in 1996.[2]

Career

In 1996, Hendricks founded the Inner Circle, a support network helping[3] gay Muslims to support their sexual orientation.[4] They were founded in response to LGBTQ Muslims who felt excluded from mosques during Friday prayers.[5] Hendricks took part in prayers, counselling and Muslim same-sex marriage ceremonies. Inner Circle was later known as Al-Fitrah Foundation.[6]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Hendricks began posting TikToks with positive messages about love. Hendricks appeared in the 2007 documentary movie A Jihad for Love. In 2022, he was the subject of The Radical, a German documentary movie.[7]

Personal life

He married a woman in 1991, and had children with her before they divorced in 1996: later that year he came out as gay.[8] He married a Hindu man in 2006.[9]

Assassination

Hendricks was killed after being shot on 15 February 2025 in Bethelsdorp, South Africa at the age of 57.[2] The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) criticised Hendricks's killing and called on authorities to investigate the death.[2] Initial reports claimed that he was murdered after reportedly officiating a lesbian wedding in Gqeberha.[2][10]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wanyonyi, Lola (8 August 2021). "Gay Imam in South Africa is happily married". Orato. Retrieved 22 February 2025.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Muhsin Hendricks, world's 'first openly gay imam', shot dead in South Africa". The Guardian. 16 February 2025. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 16 February 2025.
  3. ↑ Sanderson, Sertan (31 October 2016). "Gay imam starts quiet revolution in Islam". DW. AFP. Retrieved 25 January 2024.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  4. ↑ "A gay mosque in Cape Town sounds the call to prayer for everyone". Quartz. 2 November 2016. Retrieved 25 January 2024.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  5. ↑ Hendricks, Imam Muhsin; Krondorfer, Björn (2011). "Diversity of sexuality in Islam: Interview with Imam Muhsin Hendricks". CrossCurrents. 61 (4): 496–501. ISSN 0011-1953. JSTOR 24461906. Archived from the original on 17 December 2023. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
  6. ↑ Lazareva, Inna (5 February 2019). "'Space to coexist': Inside South Africa's LGBT-friendly mosque". Reuters. Retrieved 25 January 2024.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  7. ↑ "The Radical". Human Rights Film Festival Berlin. 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2023.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  8. ↑ Fullerton, Jamie (19 October 2022). "'I'm hoping there will be more queer imams'". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 January 2024.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  9. ↑ Sengar, Shweta (29 May 2017). "A Gay Imam With Hindu Partner Runs An LGBT-Friendly Mosque In South Africa. This Is His Story". IndiaTimes. Retrieved 17 December 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  10. ↑ "Muhsin Hendricks: World's 'first openly gay imam' shot dead in South Africa". www.bbc.com. 16 February 2025. Retrieved 16 February 2025.

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