Maybe send ACLU and NAMBLA there on a fact finding mission? They might even start a GCLU and a GMBLA (Gambian Man-Boy Love Association) chapter there.

Posted by: Infidel Pride at May 21, 2008 1:12 PM

I wonder how much we are giving in aid to that sh!thole of a country?

Posted by: Celsius at May 21, 2008 1:36 PM

Cross Gambia off the world rainbow tour.

Posted by: tanstaafl at May 21, 2008 1:49 PM

Sir Elton John to reschedule Gambian tour

Posted by: MP at May 21, 2008 2:37 PM

This is insane. Why is homosexuality so popular and hated in the Islamic world? As a former wage slave in Sadly Arabia, I know for a fact that the place is crawling with homosexuals. A single male cannot walk the street without being propositioned...it was amazing how often men would come on to you there! If I were gay would have been a sexual wonderland; it is the straight man's equivalent of Brazil or Thailand.

Glad to be out of hell,
Third

Posted by: ThirdWorldHeaven at May 21, 2008 4:24 PM

Jammeh was recently denounced in the gay press for claiming that he's got an herbal cure for AIDS.

http://www.gay.com/content/tools/print.html?coll=news_articles&sernum=2007/02/05/5&navpath=channels/news

Gambian leader's AIDS claim shocks activists
published Monday, February 5, 2007
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh's claim that he can cure AIDS in three days with secret medicinal herbs is drawing growing condemnation from health authorities.
Five of Jammeh's first 10 patients now have "undetectable viral load," he reported Tuesday on his presidential Web site, which boasts several photos of the white-robed leader laying hands on his patients' heads and mixing up the herbal formulas.

"I'm astonished. The danger of a president standing up (to say this) is shocking," said South African HIV/AIDS specialist Jerry Coovadia, who heads the HIV research team at the University of KwaZulu Natal and is a member of South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign, in an interview with the BBC.

Jammeh, who says he can cure asthma as well, began his alleged treatments in mid-January, Gambia's Daily Observer reported.

"The mandate I have is that HIV/AIDS cases can be treated on Thursdays," Jammeh said in a speech last month before dignitaries including the Cuban and Taiwanese ambassadors to Gambia. "That is the good news and the bad news is that I cannot treat more than 10 patients every Thursday. . . .

"For asthma, I have to choose between Saturday and Friday . . . Within three days the person should be tested again and I can tell you that he/she will be negative," the paper quoted Jammeh as saying.

Jammeh said the Taiwanese envoy was invited because of the Chinese appreciation for traditional medicine.

Gambian Health Minister Tamsir Mbow told the BBC, "We cannot actually tell you the type of herbs we are using presently; it will be known to the whole world later on."

Gambian university lecturer Ousman Sowe, who is undergoing the treatment, told the BBC he'd "increased weight substantially over the last 10 days" and is "no longer suffering from constipation."

South Africa's health minister was stripped last year of her AIDS-related duties for promoting garlic and beetroot to treat HIV instead of antiretroviral drugs. But AIDS dissenters there continue to tout antiretrovirals' dangers, last month bringing genocide charges before the International Criminal Court in The Hague against the Treatment Action Campaign's Zackie Achmat.

Jammeh assumed control of the West African nation in a 1994 military coup and has been elected twice since then. (The Advocate)

Posted by: skevin at May 21, 2008 6:18 PM

There was also this, a little later in February.

http://www.afrol.com/articles/28112

Senegalese homosexuals flee

afrol News, 25 February - Dozens of Senegalese homosexuals are reported to have fled to the neighbouring countries [The Gambia and Mali] to escape the looming threats on their lives.

The Gambia may not be a safe hideout for homosexuals, considering President Yahya Jammeh's personal hatred of homosexuality. He had earlier threatened to crush any act of homosexuality in the country.

Since the publication of a gay wedding in the outskirts of the capital Dakar in early February, stories on homosexuality have been dominating news in Senegal. The story - backed by photographs - was first published by a local magazine, Icone.

Icone's editor has since received several threats for exposing homosexuals to "social stigma and blackmail."

The publication has flared tempers in the predominantly Muslim nation, resulting to arrest and detention of homosexuals and all those who graced the wedding, including musicians.

The detainees were unconditionally released without explanation from the police. Local media reports alleged that homosexuals were set free as soon as they threatened to name some high-ranking state officials involved in the outlawed practice in Senegal.

Senegalese authorities have been under local religious pressures to avoid tolerating homosexuality in the country, especially as the country prepares to host a major international Islamic summit on 12 March.

Led by an influential Muslim cleric and lawmaker, Imam Mbaye Niang, hundreds of people took to the streets of Dakar to protest against the government's failure to prosecute the gay suspects.

Chanting Allahu Akbar [God is great], the protesters later turned violent, burning rubbish and blockading roads close to the central mosque in Dakar.

By staff writer

© afrol News

Posted by: skevin at May 21, 2008 6:27 PM

California had better pray that Muslims never take over.

Posted by: pulsar182 at May 21, 2008 6:49 PM

He meant he's got a verbal cure for AIDS:

Allahu Akbar!

Posted by: Haid Dasalami at May 22, 2008 12:53 AM

I wonder if Peter Tatchell will be protesting in Gambia like he did in Moscow?

Posted by: watling at May 22, 2008 4:40 AM

It seems to me that this problem would be easier solved if homosexuals were to behead every Gambian Prez in the country.

Posted by: Kim Hartveld at May 22, 2008 9:31 AM

Kim Hartveld -

Which head?

Or both perhaps?

Posted by: tanstaafl at May 23, 2008 1:55 PM

I just saw the clip of John McCain's appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres show, where she takes him to task for not supporting gay marriage, including her own upcoming wedding to her partner.

He made it clear that while he believes marriage is between a man and a woman, he is all for domestic partnerships and wishes her all the best. Later, Ellen joked about McCain "walking her down the aisle" and he laughed along.

He has been much criticized for his views by the gay and liberal press. Incidently, I am pro gay marriage myself. Anyone, however, who cannot see the difference between John McCain wishing gay people well--but stopping short of marriage--and Yahya Jammeh threatening to behead every gay person in Gambia, would seem to--ah--lack a sense of proportion.

Things are getting worse--monstrously so--for gay people all over the "Muslim world". Crackdowns in Egypt, executions in Iran, and threats of mass killings in Senegal and Gambia.

Yet, about the only articles I have seen in the local gay press about the Middle East have been stories about *Israel*--one about (peaceful) opposition to the Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem, and one about whether Israeli gays tend to look down on transexuals,

Seems a bit like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic to me.

Posted by: gravenimage at May 23, 2008 3:10 PM