The cynic in me thinks it’s because most people don’t have any real concept of allyship beyond posting an emoji on social media. They don’t understand that if anything support for us LGBTQIA+ people is even more important in places where it’s not as tolerated. It shows me that if the social tide should ever turn against us even here in the US, they’d throw us under the bus immediately.
That, and a lot of people seem to have never really met or interacted with Muslim people on a personal level.
Thanks for the book recommendation and quote. I’ll check it out.