Muslim council secretary general 'forced to resign' after attending gay son's wedding 'For us this is about standing up for Ali's God given right to live a life that would not be filled with the burden of religious guilt and compounded by communal scorn and societal shame'
A mother says she has been forced to resign as secretary general of an Islamic faith organisation after she attended the marriage of her gay son.
Earlier this month, a gay Muslim man named Ali Reza married his partner Paul in Vancouver.
It comes after a couple who had one of the UK's first same-sex marriages involving a Muslim partner received online abuse, some from fellow Muslims.
Ali Reza's family gave their full support and celebrated the wedding, but they soon became the target of public condemnation from leaders of their Shia Ithna-Asheri sect, also known as Khoja.