Filmmaker Parvez Sharma found more drama at an international conference for gay Muslims over Labor Day weekend than he had anticipated.
Sharma, who is filming a documentary on gay Muslims titled "In the Name of Allah," attended the conference hosted by Al-Fatiha, the nation’s only organization dedicated to supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, intersexed and questioning Muslims.
The event was held at the Holiday Inn Select in the Atlanta suburb of Decatur, Ga. On the final evening of the event, a hotel employee interrupted the group's awards dinner by entering the meeting room and shouting insults at the attendees.
Those present said the employee, an African-American woman wearing a traditional Muslim head covering, yelled at and berated them.
The woman said it was not possible to be gay and Muslim, and that the attendees would burn in hell, witnesses said.
http://www.nyblade.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=2397Hmmm ... guess the Christian fundies couldn't make it to the conference, so she must have been filling in for them.