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Egypt: Six arrested for organizing gay party

May 10, 2014 9:59 pm By Robert Spencer

2001 file photo of some of the 52 men arrested at a gay nightclub in CairoEven in post-Morsi Egypt, Sharia sensibilities are still strong enough to lead to this arrest. Gay rights organizations, meanwhile, are still nowhere when it comes to speaking out against Sharia oppression of gays. They’d much rather denounce Pamela Geller and me for doing so.

“Six homosexuals tried in Egypt for organising gay party,” AGI, May 10, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

(AGI) Cairo, May 10 – The Court of Nasr City, in the suburbs of Cairo, has decided to try six young Egyptian homosexuals for organising a gay party in the eastern district of the Egyptian capital. The first hearing is scheduled for May 12, when the six young men will appear before the court. Several Egyptian human rights organisations stepped in to defend them on Facebook and Twitter although homosexuality is considered to be a crime in Egypt.

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  1. mortimer says

    May 10, 2014 at 10:58 pm

    More discriminatory Sharia against people who aren’t harming anyone. Having a quiet, discreet party is a crime worthy of death because Allah the bloodthirsty Arabian god of the hunt and war says so.

    It’s shameful that the Leftard gays of the West have so little feeling for the persecuted gays in Muslim lands.

  2. gravenimage says

    May 11, 2014 at 12:13 am

    Egypt: Six arrested for organizing gay party
    ……………………………..

    This shows, I’m afraid, that those who conflate Egypt ousting the Muslim Brotherhood with rejecting Islam itself, sadly, have been indulging in a bit of irrational exuberance.

    • Salah says

      May 11, 2014 at 1:37 am

      Egypt is a majority Muslim country with a sizable Christian minority. Both religions consider homosexuality to be wrong. These homosexuals will not be tried because of sharia, they will be tried because they broke the law, the secular law. If they are to be punished, it won’t be according to sharia which mandates the death penalty.
      Bear in mind that some non-muslim countries have similar laws against homosexuality.

      • duh_swami says

        May 11, 2014 at 5:19 am

        Bear in mind that some non-muslim countries have similar laws against homosexuality.

        Which of those hangs gays in public? They won’t be tried on sharia charges is a little misleading. It ends up the same either way. The only question is the punishment. Will the general rule that ‘when there is a conflict between sharia and secular law, sharia trumps’, hold on? We shall see…

        • Salah says

          May 11, 2014 at 10:23 am

          Since when do they hang gays, or any others, in public?
          We’re talking about Egypt, not Iran.

        • duh_swami says

          May 11, 2014 at 10:46 am

          You wrote…some non-muslim countries have similar laws against homosexuality.

          What county’s? How similar? Egypt/ Iran are not non Muslim country’s.

      • gravenimage says

        May 11, 2014 at 1:36 pm

        I’m sorry, Salah—it is not the Copts who are having gays arrested. To imply that it might just as well be is misleading at best.

        • Salah says

          May 12, 2014 at 1:46 am

          No, it’s not the Copts. It’s not the Muslims either. It’s the law of the land. My point is: It’s not sharia, it’s a secular law.

        • gravenimage says

          May 13, 2014 at 8:24 pm

          Salah wrote:

          No, it’s not the Copts. It’s not the Muslims either. It’s the law of the land.
          ………………………

          Those poor, poor Egyptians—having to enforce a law that they have nothing whatsoever to do with creating! So sad…sarc/off

  3. Vluk says

    May 11, 2014 at 5:34 am

    “Gay rights organizations, meanwhile, are still nowhere when it comes to speaking out against Sharia oppression of gays.”

    I think gay rights activists in the West are cowards. They only speak up when safe to do so.

  4. veggiedog says

    May 11, 2014 at 10:22 am

    You have ask, what were they thinking? Is stupidity a Muslim gene? Sorry how this sounds but this is just asking for trouble.

    • gravenimage says

      May 11, 2014 at 1:49 pm

      veggiedog wrote:

      You have ask, what were they thinking? Is stupidity a Muslim gene? Sorry how this sounds but this is just asking for trouble.
      ………………………………..

      Two things, Veggiedog—for one thing, I wouldn’t assume this “gay party” was some sort of overt shindig, with blaring disco music and a drag show.

      It may well have been just a few friends getting together.

      And they may not even be gay—in Iraq, high school boys were stoned to death by a militia for “being gay”—in many cases the “evidence” was that they “were artistic”, liked Western fashions, and wore “emo” haircuts. In many cases, the victims were probably fashionable or “sensitive” straight kids.

      And consider how much else is “asking for trouble” in many parts of Dar-al-Islam—attending church, marrying for love, daring to eschew the Hijab, creating any kind of art, selling or consuming liquor, failing to observe Ramadan, failing to attend the Mosque five times a day, exercising the slightest freedom of speech.

      Really, it’s pretty easy to run afoul of Islam even if you aren’t “organizing gay parties”.

  5. Roxane says

    May 11, 2014 at 12:33 pm

    Yes where are the Gay rights activists who are busy harassing people who oppose Gay “marriage”. I also remember reading that a discreet gay “culture” was tolerated in Egypt under Mubarak.

  6. CogitoErgoSum says

    May 11, 2014 at 5:04 pm

    What constitutes a gay party? Why should it be illegal to organize a party….even a “gay” one? Were the men caught in the act of committing sodomy at the party or were they just having tea and crumpets…or celebrating a birthday? Were these men doing whatever they were doing in a private home or out in public? If it was in a private home, why should it be the business of anyone else? Perhaps someone was upset at not being invited….??? More information needs to be forthcoming about this story.

  7. Elisheva14 says

    May 11, 2014 at 5:55 pm

    The Media said that the Arab Spring was a push towards democracy. This was not true. They then “voted” under stress for the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. Then they woke up and did not want the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt because they were Terrorists. Their life went from bad to worse. No one claims that Egypt is becoming any more open to democracy. The majority of the population still wants Sharia Law. They still are anti-Israel and anti-US. There is no real changes for the gay or Christian Coptic Community in Egypt. Al Quada, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood are all Terrorists. Mubarak was a dictator. Now we saw a military takeover.

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