Who was Imam Muhsin Hendricks? Muhsin Hendricks was born in 1967 in Cape Town and raised in a Muslim household. He married and started a family with a woman before coming out as gay in 1996.

More than three weeks since the murder of Muhsin Hendricks, an openly gay imam, no one has been arrested, and police are giving no details about the investigation's progress.

Hundreds of people in rainbow colors gathered on Saturday in South Africa’s tourist magnet Cape Town to honor the world’s first openly gay imam, who was killed last month. Muhsin Hendricks, who ran a ...

Ty Khan and Imam Muhsin Hendricks embrace at the Masjid Ul-Umam, the People’s Mosque, in Wynberg, Cape Town, in 2024. Ty and Safia’s wedding ceremony was performed by Hendricks.

Scores of people gathered to honour the life of the first openly gay imam, Muhsin Hendricks, at the Pride Festival, Cape Town's largest LGBTQIA+ event. Known for the celebration of queer rights, the ...

Those were the foundations of Muhsin Hendricks’s 30-year ministry, which over time provided meeting places, a mosque, constant reassurance and two human-rights foundations to defend Muslims torn ...

Muhsin Hendricks, well known as the first openly gay Muslim imam, was fatally shot in South Africa last Saturday in what supporters are calling a targeted assassination.

On 15 February 2025, Imam Muhsin Hendricks was shot dead by two gunmen in the South African city of Gqeberha. Known to many as the world’s “first openly gay imam”, Imam Muhsin’s murder has ...

Picture: Supplied SOUTH Africa’s first openly gay Imam, Muhsin Hendricks, was gunned down in Bethelsdorp, in Gqebera, on the morning he was to officiate in the interfaith weddings of two couples.

Imam Muhsin Hendricks, 58, was fatally shot around 10 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 15 in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape RODGER BOSCH/AFP via Getty The first openly gay Imam was ambushed and killed on his ...