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Saudi Arabia Urges Need For Death Penalty After Sharp Rise In ‘Homosexual’ Arrests
Citing a threat to the “social fabric” of the nation, the Saudi Arabian judiciary is proposing the death penalty for men found guilty of engaging in or soliciting homosexual activity as well as “men’s attempts to look like women.”
Describing them as “perverts,” officials have noted the deleterious effects social media are having on their citizenry. They note the recent appearance of the hashtag #I_am_gay_will_not_be_deterred as proof of the potential upheaval this devout Muslim nation could face if stronger measures are not adopted.
“Some defended an individual’s freedom to express his sexuality, while most users said that homosexuality is a transgression and a capital offense. “It has nothing to do with freedom, it’s breaching the laws of Allah,”wrote” one commenter on Twitter. “When a man has sex with another man, God is trembling.”
A recent spate of news has emerged indicating the serious nature of the punishment people face when accused of anything remotely ‘gay.’ As we reported Monday, a doctor was arrested after hanging a rainbow flag outside his home. (He was released on his own recognizance, stating he did not know of the flag’s symbolism and only hung it because his child found the colors ‘pretty.’)
At the same time, Okaz, a Saudi Arabian daily based out of Jeddah, reports that a man in his 50s was arrested for making online sexual advances to men. While being questioned, he begged police to forgive him and said he wouldn’t do it again.
Combating homosexuality remains one of the major goals of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPVPV), along with its campaign against consumption of alcohol and the practice of magic.
Oh, and I like people who are Muslims. The radical ones. As in the ones who are NOT fundamentalists. That be, and mean, the rare ones. Still not my fault! Lol! :)
The USA's hatred of Islamic people is the result of their TV's, movies and newspapers telling them what to believe (and which brand of toilet paper to buy).
Human beings are the same all over the world (apart from slight cosmetic differences)... any moral / behavioural differences are due entirely to the information that is fed to them.
The only reason that homosexuality is no longer persecuted in some countries is because of better education and the decline of religion.
In the distant future (hopefully not TOO distant) people will discuss how it was possible for intelligent human beings to live alongside people who believed that when they died they weren't really dead and that it was OK to circumcise / mutilate people without their consent !
The executions were first reported in English by the British campaigning group OutRage!, who claimed that the Iranian Students' News Agency, in an online article on the day of the executions, indicated that the two were executed because they had been caught having sex with each other. This claim has been challenged by Hadi Ghaemi, Human Rights Watch's Iran researcher and a native Persian speaker, who said that the ISNA article was titled "Lavat beh Onf." He translated the title as "homosexual act by coercion". [1]s
According to the documentary the current system, state of affairs is starting to crack - young people have access to social media and they're tired of putting up a reactionary government. It sounds like a horrible place to live, and it should be a object lesson to all of us about the effects of religious fanaticism.