Publisher's Synopsis
"The renaissance or reformation of Islam will not happen on its own, we have to act. In my opinion, homosexuality, no matter what people say, is not a choice; and one would have to be crazy to choose to be homosexual when one comes from the socio-cultural background from which I come. Fortunately, here in France, it is no longer an offence.
I think that it is the representation that some French Muslims have of their religion, not Islam itself, that poses a problem. It is the human being in all his complexity, his knowledge, his freedom of self-determination, his capacity for empathy, which make him a creator of possibilities, the successor of God on earth according to the teachings of the Koran. I understood that homosexuality as we live it today, at least as the French law allows us to live it, does not go against the principles of an enlightened Islam."
