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I don鈥檛 view this as an identity
Sayeeda Warsi speaks to Yousef, who doesn鈥檛 act on his same sex attraction.
Sayeeda Warsi speaks to Yousef, who doesn鈥檛 act on his same sex attraction, and rejects it as an identity. In an extraordinarily frank conversation, Yousef explains that he isn鈥檛 ashamed of his attractions but that it would be for very difficult for him to be open about them within his community. He discusses celibacy, and what Islam says about same sex attraction. Yousef isn鈥檛 his real name, though, and his words are spoken by an actor, because he
hasn鈥檛 told anyone close to him about his attractions 鈥� not his friends, not his family, and not his wife.
