You can dislike aspects of a religion without having a ban on being friends with them . I manage to be friends with christians , Jews and Muslims albeit sometimes I get a tad frustrated at them . Also I don ' t know which muslims you ' ve been associating with , but the ones I know are generally pretty okay with LGBT folks . They ' ve got a slightly outdated view of women one of them is looking forward to an arranged marriage but it ' s not a they ' re property type thing , and they are respected . I guess I just know liberal moderate muslims and not ones like the ones you ' re talking to . I found it harder although not impossible to convince my christian friends that LGBT people are people too and they deserve equal rights . Jews were generally the easiest to convinceagree with funnily enough . But then all religions have their share of nutters . Maybe I ' ve just been luckyselective with my friends .