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Zanzibar: “We rounded them up because we suspect they were engaged in homosexuality”

Sep 18, 2017 4:48 am By Robert Spencer

The Qur’an contains numerous condemnations of homosexual activity: “And [We had sent] Lot when he said to his people, ‘Do you commit such immorality as no one has preceded you with from among the worlds? Indeed, you approach men with desire, instead of women. Rather, you are a transgressing people.’…And We rained upon them a rain [of stones]. Then see how was the end of the criminals.” (Qur’an 7:80-84)

Muhammad specifies the punishment for this in a hadith: “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, ‘Whoever you find doing the action of the people of Loot, execute the one who does it and the one to whom it is done.’” (Sunan Abu Dawud 4462)

But in the West, even gay activists such as Chris Stedman will tell you that to stand against this brutality and oppression is hateful, bigoted and “Islamophobic.”

“Zanzibar Rounds Up Suspected Homosexuals, Police Pledge to ‘Intensify Vigiliance [sic],’” Associated Press, September 16, 2017:

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (AP) – Authorities in Tanzania’s semi-autonomous region of Zanzibar have detained 20 people accused of engaging in same-sex activities, police said Saturday, the latest incident in a crackdown on homosexuality in the East African country.

Twelve women and eight men were arrested following a police raid on a hotel where the suspects were attending a workshop, said regional police chief Hassan Ali.

“Yes, we rounded them up because we suspect that they were engaged in homosexuality in Zanzibar, which is illegal in Zanzibar and is against the law of the country,” he said, adding that police “will intensify (their) vigilance against those groups.”

Homosexuality is criminalized in Tanzania, and sex among men is punishable by jail terms ranging from 30 years to life imprisonment….

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  1. Johnnymaboy says

    Sep 18, 2017 at 5:00 am

    Zanzibar is 98.9% Islam, this is a sharia country. Won’t hear a peep about this from the left how says they care dearly about gays and their oppression.

    Losing your life for your sexual orientation is about as oppressive as you can get, terrible fate for these people

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 20, 2017 at 10:44 pm

      Tanzania is not a Muslim country–but they allow Shari’ah in Zanzibar.

  2. Tonton Macoute says

    Sep 18, 2017 at 5:44 am

    Zanzibar is Islamic – the mainland not – despite DAR

    • mortimer says

      Sep 18, 2017 at 9:55 am

      Zanzibar was one of the last strongholds of the lucrative Islamic black slave trade which the British forced to end in 1897. Persecution of Christians is acute in the 98.9% Muslim country. About 12% of children on Zanzibar have acute malnutrition.

      • JON DAVIES says

        Sep 19, 2017 at 9:38 am

        I think you’ll find that ‘the slave trade’ was ended, by the British, in 1907, with compensation paid to the Arab slave-traders and slave owners of ( I recall ) £4 a head – nowt to the ( ex ) slaves . .

        J Davies ( one-time resident of Mombasa )

        • Robert Spencer says

          Sep 19, 2017 at 9:41 am

          I believe it was ended in 1807, not 1907.

        • JON DAVIES says

          Sep 19, 2017 at 11:05 am

          THE ‘slave trade ‘ was ‘abolished in 1807: but no one told Tippu Tibb or his fellow Arab slavers: see The Last Slave Market by Alastair Hazell, 2011. And I lived in house, part of what I think is now Mombasa Polytechnic/University, built with money given to the slave owners as compensation for losing their slaves – the ‘liberated’ slaves got nowt – except initially, a trip to Bombay, where they became ‘Bombay Africans’ . . .

          Jon Davies

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 20, 2017 at 10:49 pm

          JON, your implication that the British did nothing for slaves by freeing them is *very* questionable.

  3. Santa Voorhees says

    Sep 18, 2017 at 5:53 am

    “Homosexuality is criminalized in Tanzania, and sex among men is punishable by jail terms ranging from 30 years to life imprisonment….”

    So, don’t they throw them off the roof? They must be the moderates leftist keep talking about….

    • Bob says

      Sep 19, 2017 at 7:48 am

      And yet, Santa, the muslims’re looking forward to the small boys like pearls in the boozt bordello in their paradise, and small boys’re acceptable in the muslim sexual ’emergency’! Illogical

  4. Kiki says

    Sep 18, 2017 at 10:53 am

    No one should ever be arrested for being gay….it’s no one else’s business what sexuality someone is.

    • Rufolino says

      Sep 19, 2017 at 5:19 am

      Good heavens Kiki, try saying THAT to religious people ! (And I mean branches of ALL religions.)

  5. Carolyne says

    Sep 19, 2017 at 12:48 pm

    Wasn’t it Lot the biblical character who offered to give his daughters to be gang raped in order to save the two male angels from being raped? I don’t think the bible tells us what the daughters thought of this. Were they not allowed to think? This sounds absolutely Koranic. Later, I believe Lot got drunk and had sex with these two daughters and impregnated them. Guess Lot and the bible didn’t know about the results of consanguinitous intercourse.

    I do not think this is a good example to live by.

    By the way, I agree with Kiki. It’s nobody’s business unless it is forcible, the same as heterosexual rape.

  6. Sharon Jeanguenat says

    Sep 19, 2017 at 3:38 pm

    Yeah, but the gays think they’re treated so badly in THIS country!

  7. gravenimage says

    Sep 20, 2017 at 11:14 pm

    Zanzibar: “We rounded them up because we suspect they were engaged in homosexuality”
    …………….

    God, I hate Islam.

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