The official fictn, Brian Whaker explas, is that gay people don’t exist the Middle East. They do – and for many of them, attus of fay and society are a bigger problem than fear of beg persecuted
Contents:
- 13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
- EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
- THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY
- THE 11 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS PUNISHABLE BY ATH ARE ALL MAJORY-MLIM
- DO MLIMS KILL GAY PEOPLE
- WHAT DO ISLAM SAY ABOUT BEG GAY?
- ISLAMIC STATE GROUP TARGETS GAYS WH BTAL PUBLIC KILLGS
- MLIM ATTUS ABOUT LGBT ARE PLEX, FAR OM UNIVERSALLY ANTI-GAY
13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
* do muslims kill gays *
Whether Bnei will keep s word remas to be seen, but the small untry on the island of Borneo near Malaysia is not the only natn where gay men and women are beg sentence for the crime of beg gay some untri is rooted the terpretatn of Sharia law, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn’s (ILGA) report on state-sponsored, which means “path, ” is not so much a legal system as a gui for helpg people fd life’s answers through Islam, as people unrstand acrdg to tradnal and early terpretatns.
EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
The right of marriage is a far-off dream plac where simply beg gay rri the ath penalty. * do muslims kill gays *
On a more posive note, the are the untri where same sex marriage is officially intify the untri where beg gay is still legally punishable by ath, 24/7 Tempo reviewed var reports on human rights and homophobia by non-prof anizatns providg help and legal advice to mori, cludg members of the LGBTQ muny across the world. 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.
THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY
AnswerY. Mlims kill gay people (acrdg to the law) : Sudan, Mrania, Nigeria, Sdi Arabia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iran, and Maldiv. There are also route honor killgs several other Mlim untri. AnswerPer the Quran and the prophet Muhammad teachgs, is not permted to kill homosexuals although their sexual relatnship is forbidn. However que a few Islamic untri do not believe this. The Quran says chapter 4, verse 16: If two (two men or two women) among you are guilty of such acts then punish both of them. But if they repent and reform, let them be, for God accepts repentance and is merciful.AnswerNot all Mlims kill gay people, fact, most do not. However, the killg of gays occurs que routely Islamic Countri and is creasg areas outsi of the Islamic World plac where Mlims are beg the majory populatn (Ltle Pakistans et al.). There is a siar rrelatn between Christians who kill gays when those Christians e om relig areas of Ai, such as Uganda or Cameroon. This is more of a cultural thg that is spired by relign than a purely relig matter. Unfortunately many of the muni ( Ai, Asia, and Wtern Stat), only the allegatn of homosexual nduct is enough to jtify vlence and possible murr/executn. Nobody has to actually document the act takg place or provi evince of a sexual enunter. In Uganda, for example, a Christian majory untry, the newspapers ually have a lumn that "outs" people who are spected of beg gay. In Mlim-majory untri, is ually by word of mouth that someone is the Universy of Denver Paper: Dyg for Love: Homosexualy the Middle East the Related Lks below (along wh the UN Reports on vlence towards LGBT which discs this que pth). In the Islamic ntext, ernment actively assists or do nothg to prevent vlence towards homosexuals. * do muslims kill gays *
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. 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 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.
THE 11 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS PUNISHABLE BY ATH ARE ALL MAJORY-MLIM
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. Years before Isis began throwg allegedly gay men off the top of buildgs, other groups Iraq were attackg “un-manly” men – sometim killg them slowly by jectg glue to the reason for the paratively small number of prosecutns is the official fictn that gay people don’t exist to any great extent Mlim untri; homosexualy is regard primarily as a wtern phenomenon and large numbers of arrts would ll that to qutn. Some of the most btal Arab regim (Iraq unr Saddam Hse and Syria unr the Assads, for example) also showed ltle tert attackg gay people – probably bee they had other thgs to worry Syrian refugee Subhi Nahas wh the US ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, durg an rmal meetg on the persecutn of LGBT people by Isis.
For those ught, the effect on their liv is tastrophic but the law is not much of a terrent and for those who are discreet about their sexualy the risk of arrt is the vast majory who intify as gay, lbian or transgenr the attus of fay and society are a much bigger one issue that affects all gay people – everywhere – at some pot their liv is g out. Also, ’s clear that the prophet Muhammad never specified a punishment for homosexualy; wasn’t until some years after his ath that Mlims began discsg what a suable punishment might nmnatns of homosexualy, like those Christiany, are based maly on the story about God’s punishment of Sodom and Gomorrah which is reunted the Qur’an as well as the Old Ttament. Although Mlim societi today n be scribed as generally homophobic, ’s a mistake to view homophobia as a self-ntaed problem: ’s part of a syndrome which the rights of dividuals are subsumed the perceived terts of the muny and – often – matag an “Islamic” ethos.
DO MLIMS KILL GAY PEOPLE
“Transgenr” is a broad term which clus tersex people (whose blogil sex is unclear or was wrongly assigned at birth), those wh genr dysphoria (who feel like “a man trapped a woman’s body”, or vice versa) and may also clu others who simply get pleasure or satisfactn om police e a water nnon to disperse LGBT rights activists before a Gay Pri para central Istanbul, Turkey.
There were also many who found the ncept of genr dysphoria difficult to grasp and some characterised her as a gay man who was tryg to game the affair rulted a fatwa om Muhammad Tantawi, Egypt’s grand mufti, which is still ced s across the regn today. There are plenty of trans people who simply wish to be accepted as they are – whout surgery – and the Iranian system don’t really provi for, the difference between beg transgenr and gay is not well unrstood Iran, even wh the medil profsn, and there have been reports of gay men beg prsured to surgery as a way of “regularisg” their legal posn and avoidg the risk of executn.
WHAT DO ISLAM SAY ABOUT BEG GAY?
My Kali, a Jordanian magaze which aims “to addrs homophobia and transphobia and empower the youth to fy mastream genr bari the Arab world” has been published regularly sce far, no one has attempted to hold a Pri para an Arab untry, though there have been paras the Turkish cy of Istanbul sce 2003 (not whout opposn). Far om wng praise for exposg “the secret behd the spreadg of Aids Egypt”, the programme’s prenter was roundgly nmned and later ran to legal April, the thori Amman, Jordan, ncelled a ncert by Mashrou’ Leila, a popular Lebane rock band wh an openly gay sger, jt a few days before was due to take place. Such was the outcry on social media that the thori rcd their cisn 24 hours later – though too late to reanise the ncert as origally the relig ont, prevailg Islamic views of homosexualy have been challenged here and there, but not on a sle that is likely to make much difference.
There are a handful of gay-iendly mosqu and a few openly gay imams – cludg Muhs Hendricks South Ai, Daayiee Abdullah the US, and Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, a French-Algerian, very noticeably, are the diaspora rather than the Mlim heartlands, but the diaspora is where Islam is forced to nont realy – not the untri where is protected and illtratn of where this n lead me Bra 2007 over the Sexual Orientatn Regulatns – a measure maly tend to prevent bs om discrimatg agast gay people. How Amerin Mlims Mt Rpond to Orlando Israel's First Gay Major General Is No Cse for Pri The Real Opprsors of Gaza's Gay Communy Beit Pri Canceled After Organizer Detaed by Authori Lebanon last year beme the first Arab untry to hold a gay pri week, though the openg event was nceled bee of safety ncerns after threats of vlence. " "Middle Eastern and North Ain untri have nounced the Orlando shootg when at the same time they crimalize homosexualy wh sentenc rangg om years prison to the ath penalty, " said Ahmed Benchemsi, munitns and advocy director for the Middle East and North Ai at Human Rights Watch.
ISLAMIC STATE GROUP TARGETS GAYS WH BTAL PUBLIC KILLGS
Executn methods and motivatns the 12 untri clu beheadgs and so-lled honor killgs, the latter mted agast LGBT people by none other than their own fay data llectn is difficult bee of the opaquens of prosecutns the untri, 's clear that Iran and Sdi Arabia are the two ernments most guilty of killg people for beg gay. "As he further not, Uganda's 2014 "jail the gays" law, once billed as a promise away om an earlier-proposed "kill the gays" law, lasted only a few months before was followg list of untri around the world where you n be sentenced to ath jt for beg LGBT was piled wh rmatn om the U. Department of State, Erasg 76 Crim, and the jt-released 2016 edn of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn's annual survey, tled State Sponsored Homophobia 2016: A Wrld Survey of Sexual Orientatn Laws: Crimalizatn, Protectn and 's beg wh the most egreg.
They had nsensual the Aceh provce of Indonia, homosexualy is a crime that n be punished this btal and gradg More: Disturbg Details of Executns Emerge From Chechnya's 'Gay Torture Camps': ReportEverywhere the world, LGBTQ people are routely harassed, discrimated agast, beaten, and even murred for simply beg who they are. Stong to ath is another form of public executn a untry that kills hundreds of people each More: Taiwan Be First Place Asia to Legalize Same-Sex MarriageNigeriaRunng unter to much of the rt of the world, Nigeria’s print cid to strengthen anti-homosexual laws 2014. Earlier this year, two men were shot public by the terrorist group after beg found havg More: Lebanon Jt Celebrated Its Very First Gay Pri ParaSudanThe first two tim a person gets ught havg gay sex Sudan n lead to 100 lash and imprisonment up to five years.
MLIM ATTUS ABOUT LGBT ARE PLEX, FAR OM UNIVERSALLY ANTI-GAY
We explore (Relig views on homosexualy)Let go through this chronologilly, Sce the begng of man’s existence, time of Adam, sex – weather legal (maral) or not – has been between a hband and wife “the natural human disposn ‘frah'”; we are told all three dive books. This rearch has never been reproduced; not for the lack of tryg; so is certaly false rults of myth of the gay gene has been molished when the “Journal of Sex Rearch” published a scientific paper on how media transformed a weak hypothis to a social fact (not scientific) whout any acceptable scientific evince, and has been vigoroly ed to lobby for more liberti, acceptance and power for homosexuals by prsure groups and lobbyists.