I cannot put my thoughts into proper sentences, and I had to rewrite this over and over again in my head. It's just... considering my background as a born Muslim and a humanities studies undergrad, I'm sometimes torn apart between looking at matters through Muslim's eyes or humanities'.
For example, about LGBT... I know how important it is to be free to make your own choices. I know how the coming out of the LGBT community marks an important era of the rise of a minority group. As a woman who studied American history, I see this as a good-meaningful moment because I know how women were considered the second sex once; we were seen as the lower class. We were the minority. And the moment women were started to be treated almost equally, and we got to demand our rights... it changed everything for us. Now, women are more respected. I see the same thing with racism. When black people are finally considered as human beings, as the same with the whites, it was a great thing. As a human, I can't help but see this coming out of LGBT community as the same great thing.
However, as a born Muslim, I am afraid even thinking this way means glorifying sins.
That's why I'm torn.
