Kuwais plan to apply for gay rights - The Hdu

Contents:

• EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
• MANY KUWAIS PLAN TO APPLY FOR ‘GAY’ RIGHTS ?
• COMG OUT: A GAY KUWAI'S EXPERIENCE
• KUWAIS PLAN TO APPLY FOR GAY RIGHTS

EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI

The mpaign agast homosexualy has rulted a variety of opns om supporters and opponents on social media due to Kuwa’s Islamic and Arab tradns, which rejects homosexualy. Moreover, they thk the way discs homosexualy is aggrsive. On the another hand, many cizens and rints exprsed their approval of this mpaign due s important role rejectg homosexualy, pecially wh an ternatnal mpaign that is tryg to force homosexualy on people, pecially children.

Another cizen, Mohammad, said: “Homosexualy is unqutnably rejected — by relign, by tradn, by society and by law; but people mt be treated wh rpect and as human begs, as long as they do not promote this and are discreet, as is the se our Arab and Islamic societi.

By force they want to make homosexualy a normal relatnship! “Foreign seri, social media, dividuals and ternatnal stutns ll all day and night to promote homosexualy c and ntuo ways wh pornographic imag, porn clips and porn plots, while all the toxs reach our unrage children, ” he said, addg, “all the thgs they ll normal.

MANY KUWAIS PLAN TO APPLY FOR ‘GAY’ RIGHTS ?

In June 2008, an attempt to ‘protect s youth’ the Kuwai ernment reportedly was steppg up a mpaign to ‘rid’ the untry of gay and transexual cizens [R1. GayStarNews: Eleven trans arrted Kuwa 30 OCT 12. Homosexualy, Sodomy.

In 1997, Kuwai Police were reported as havg arrted and gaoled gay foreigners prr to their portatn [R1. ILGA: State-Sponsored Homophobia 589. Alai Gay Tim: Kuwai Police Arrt Foreign Gays 24 JAN 97.

Kuwa has ported dozens of homosexuals and shut down “gay” massage parlours, acrdg to the untry’s moral mtee.

COMG OUT: A GAY KUWAI'S EXPERIENCE

Speakg to Kuwa's al-Seyassah newspaper, Mohammad al-Dhufairi said that "76 men have been ported" durg a “moral” crackdown on homosexualy. “We have a zero-tolerance policy towards any morally distasteful eds and we refe to show leniency wh anyone who breaks the l or puts the health of Kuwai cizens and rints at risk, ” al-Dhufairi told the the raids, the mtee found sex toys, women’s unrwear and makp that the men were reportedly two massage parlours were also shut down after beg spected of beg a hub for homosexual and the Beast too 'gay' for Kuwa?

Okay to be gay Lebanon: New lg turns the tis on illegal homosexualyWhile beg a part of the LGBTQ+ muny Kuwa is already difficult, wh social and legal stigmas on homosexualy, LGBTQ+ expats Kuwa are put at a signifint 2013, Youf Mdkar, an official at the Kuwai health mistry said  an terview that he wanted to e up wh a homosexual tectn system to keep gays out of Kuwa and other untri the Gulf Cooperatn Council (GCC) dividuals receive no protectn of their rights Kuwa and homosexual acts between men n rult a six-year prison sentence. Cross-drsg was outlawed are no laws agast sexual acts between women bee unr article 193 of the Kuwai Penal Co which punish bchery, homosexualy is terpreted by the urts to mean male homosexualy.

Acrdg to the kgdom’s relig police, the school was fed 100, 000 riyals ($26, 650) for displayg “the emblem of the homosexuals” on s buildg, one of s admistrators was jailed and the offendg parapet was swiftly repated to match a blue rabow-ee se of the gaily pated school shows how progrs one part of the world n have adverse effects elsewhere and serv as a remr that there are plac where the nnectn between rabows and LGBT rights is eher new or yet to be Afghanistan, only a few years ago, there was a craze for ratg rs wh rabow stickers – which Che factori were only too happy to supply. It wasn’t until the Afghan Pajhwok news agency explaed how they might be misterpreted that the craze me to a sudn on the ter and you will also fd pi of the “Rabow Qur’an” for sale – an unnscly gay edn of the holy book wh tted pag of every hue and remend on one webse as “an ial gift for Mlims” there are two sis to this cross-cultural misunrstandg. Genr segregatn, which go to extreme lengths the more nservative Mlim untri, enurag homosocial behavur, creatg a suatn where men are often more fortable the prence of other men and where placg a hand on another man’s knee is a sign of iendship, not an vatn to sex.

KUWAIS PLAN TO APPLY FOR GAY RIGHTS

Morocn activists participate a vigil Rabat to pay tribute to the victims of the Orlando gay club shootg. Historilly, Mlim societi have often acknowledged this – toleratg to some extent even if they the 19th and early 20th centuri, men who had been persecuted for their sexualy Europe often sought refuge Moroc and, long before same-sex marriage was dreamed of the wt, male-on-male partnerships were regnised – and marked wh a ceremony – the remote Egyptian oasis of some Mlim untri, whole towns have bee the butt of jok about the supposed homosexualy of their habants.

In those that have no specific law agast homosexualy, gay people may still be prosecuted unr other laws. In Egypt, for example, an old law agast “bchery” is often laws have a tastrophic effect on the liv of people who are unlucky enough to get ught but, spe ocsnal crackdowns, the thori don’t, on the whole, actively seek out gay people to arrt them.

Statistics are srce but the number of arrts is undoubtedly lower than was durg the Brish wave of homophobia the 1950s. In England 1952, there were 670 prosecutns for sodomy, 3, 087 for attempted sodomy or cent asslt, and 1, 686 for gross problem wh such laws, even if not vigoroly enforced, is that they signal official disapproval of homosexualy and, upled wh the fulmatns of relig scholars, legimise discrimatn by dividuals at an everyday level and may also provi an exce for actn by vigilant.