The Radical introduces us to 54-year-old Muhsin Hendricks, a South African man believed to be the first openly gay imam. Hendricks leads a devoted group of queer muslims, having started an organisation to support the LGBTQI+ community and running a personal empowerment programme that helps muslims reconcile their sexuality with their faith. The film provides first-person accounts of being and growing up queer as a South African Muslim in a society caught between the liberalism of its constitution and the conservativeness of its cultures and history. The film chronicles individual journeys to queer acceptance, as a diversity of muslim people negotiate these tensions. The film also provides an in-depth exploration of homosexuality in the context of Islamic theology and its texts, and challenges the orthodox interpretations.
The Radical
An intimate portrait of the world's first openly gay Imam and his fight for the radical inclusion of LGBTQ+ Muslims within Islam across the Africa.
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