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Homosexuality was very common among Muslim rulers... But irony dies million time when the same homosexuals are caned in places like Indonesia, Malaysia and hanged in Iran, and stoned to death in other Countries !!Al-Hakam II (915-976), the ruler of Al-Andalus (Muslim Spain) kept a harem of male concubines. So that he could produce an heir, the sultana was dressed as a boy and referred with the title "Jafar". Their son, Hisam II also kept a male harem.Abd al-Rahman III, the Ummayad ruler of Spain had executed a young man from León who was held as a hostage, because he had refused his advances during the ReconquistaMehmed II, the Ottoman Sultan demanded that the fourteen year old son from the House of Notaras (a Greek family) be handed over to him for his pleasure. When they refused, the whole family was decapacitated.Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya (875–902), the Emir of Aghlabid (a vassal of the Abbasids) was said to have been surrounded by some sixty male concubines whom he would treat v badly.Mahmud of Ghazni (971-1030), the ruler of the Ghaznavid Empire, had a Turkish slave named Malik Ayaz, a boy taken from GeorgiaShah Abbas (1588-1629), the 5th Safavid ruler was reported to have a liking for wine and young men. Paintings depicting the ruler in romantic positions can be seen like those of Riza AbbasiAl-Amin (809-813), the 6th Abbasid Caliph, was said to have required slave women be dressed like men for intercourse so he could produce an heir.Khusro Khan was a Hindu Rajput who was taken as a concubine along with his brother, Hisamuddin to warm the bed of Alauddin Khalji and his son, Qutbudin Mubarak Shah...The ubna male or mokhannas is condemned as a passive homosexual worthy of death." In essence, tops were not considered homosexuals provided they didn't indulge in oral copulation. Only bottoms were to be considered to be homosexual.When in 1845, Sir Charles Napier conquered and annexed Sindh, the region around Karachi in modern day Pakistan, his forces discovered a number of male brothels featuring boys and eunuchs.""Two key distinctions are drawn. Liwat i.e. pederasty is acceptable as long as the man uses the boy for anal or oral sex. What is forbidden and seen as shameful is for men is Ubna that is to receive a man in ones anus or mouth. The line of demarcation is the onset of the beard...Sharia prescribes death for homosexuality, but the kings v often ignored those rules. Being in power, they had control over the clergy who direct opposed such acts.Rumi’s greatest work Masnavi-e-ma’navi (Rhyming Couplets of Profound Spiritual Meaning) we find described, a young boy’s fear of being sexually abused by a mature man (Bachtin, 2013).It is written of Sultan Mahmud Mizra, uncle of Babur in Tuzuk-i-baburi (Aggleton, 1996): "He took beautiful boys of his noblemen and admitted them into his "boys' harem". He surrounded himself with scores of beautiful boys.This practice became a custom throughout his kingdom and noblemen occupied themselves with this mode.""...Islamic paradise or "Jannat" promises 72 virgins and 28 young pre-pubescent boys for men. They say that dead Muslims will have the sexual prowess of 100 men in paradise (72+28)...." Rich men buy boys as young as 11 from impoverished families for sexual slavery.The boys are dressed in women's clothes and made to dance and sing at parties, before being carted away by the men for sex. Young boys who are forced to be the receptive partner in anal intercourse are often perceived as being gay and are thus subjected to social hostility.