Leftist-Islamic alliance hardest hit.
A hadith depicts Muhammad specifying the punishment for homosexual activity: “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)
“Arab Gulf countries crack down on homosexuality,” by Hudhaifa Ebrahim, Media Line, December 16, 2022:
Four countries in the Arab Gulf have intensified their campaigns against homosexuals, or what the states’ leaders refer to as “perverts,” in recent months in what they say is an effort to preserve customs, traditions, and religious and societal values.
Kuwait has announced the deportation of at least 3,000 massage parlor employees, most of them of Filipino nationality, who allegedly offer sexual services to male clients.
Sheikh Talal Khalid Al-Sabah, first deputy prime minister and interior minister, issued strict instructions regarding “the need to clean the country of homosexuals who imitate women” by launching wide campaigns in all governorates, “because of the spread of these “diseases” in Kuwaiti society, which is rejected by Kuwaitis.”
In Saudi Arabia, activists circulated video clips taken during seasonal parties in Riyadh of people accused of being homosexual, including those who are wearing earrings or making what are considered feminine gestures. At the end of each clip, the Interior Ministry announces the arrest of those who appeared in the video, stressing the government’s complete rejection of any of what it called “perversion.”
Saudi Arabia, which has restricted the scope of activities allowed to be carried out by its Islamic religious police, known as the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, still rejects any kind of homosexual activity, considering it a criminal and unacceptable behavior in society.
The Bahraini government has launched a campaign targeting foreign workers, most of them of Filipino nationality, in massage parlors and other locations where homosexual acts allegedly take place. While homosexual activity is not specifically a criminal activity in private in Bahrain, there are several articles in the penal code that can be used to target homosexuals, including one that requires people to follow local Islamic tradition.
Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa during the opening session of the new parliament on Monday stressed the kingdom’s rejection of homosexual practices, saying: “We assure everyone that we will not allow it in any way to prejudice our system of values and traditions.”
King Hamad also affirmed in his speech, which was broadcast live on Bahraini television, “I will only agree to what will reach the consensus of all, and we will stand in the face of any intellectual invasion that contradicts the values of our tolerant Islamic law and common human instinct.”
The Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs in Bahrain issued a statement confirming its rejection of any “intellectual invasion” and attempts to “change the Islamic nature” of the kingdom, while several new members of parliament announced that they intend to intensify the criminalization of homosexuality.
The Bahraini Sunni Endowments Directorate also issued instructions to Friday preachers to talk about homosexuality and warn against it.
While homosexual activity is illegal in Qatar, it has allowed homosexuals from abroad to visit to attend the World Cup. Still, it does not permit the flying of a pride flag, or any other manifestation of the rainbow pride symbol, which includes the banning of the “One Love” armband in stadiums and outside Qatar. The rainbow-colored armband, a project initiated by the Dutch Football Association against all forms of discrimination, bears the words “One Love” on it and features the number one inside a heart.
Khalid Salman, the 60-year-old ambassador of the World Cup in Qatar, told reporters in a press conference ahead of the World Cup that homosexuals are welcome, but they should not act in a homosexual manner in public, and that he considered homosexuality a “mental defect.”…
DHZ says
But February/December marriages are still perfectly fine and normal, as long as December initiates the marriage and is a male man. February can also be January or March but no later than May.
alexreid says
Just like the Nazis in 1936 with the Olympics. [That year both Winter & Summer Games were staged in Germany]. Quick…. get rid of the signs! Everything, Everybody, Happy, Happy! Oh, good it’s over. Visitors have left. Back to normal The sheer & utter hypocrisy of it all: the Muslims & non-Muslims. Strange for a culture & People that endorse sodomy & gang sodomy of young boys; the raping of & marrying of pre-pubescent girls & whose TOP Law Book, The Reliance of the Traveller, openly endorses Necrophilia & Bestiality. [Section O, verse 12.3, page 610]..
gravenimage says
Grimly so.
James Lincoln says
Anyone who holds a sign “Queers Against islamophobia” is either:
1. Incredibly misinformed.
or
2. Mentally unstable.
Or just maybe both…
Wellington says
+1
gravenimage says
So true, James and Wellington.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
So are those people now stereotyping Filipinos as being homosexual? That’s pretty bigoted, which of course, they are, but the Filipinos and other infidels working in the region – Sri Lankans, Nepalese, Thai and others should go back to their countries, where at least they’ll be paid for whatever work they do, and not exploited like in Qatar
Regardless of what I think about muslims, I do think that they – at least the Saudis and Bahreinis – can find the right balance b/w banning public homosexuality and getting rid of horrific quranic punishments: whether they end up doing that or not would remain to be seen. But I don’t see anything changing for Qatar or Kuwait. But yeah, I’d like to see more ‘Queers against Islamophobia’ tour these countries and find out what their islamic ‘allies’ are really like
Wellington says
A century ago, back in 1922, any defense of male homosexuals and male homosexuality, for example arguing the non-need for sodomy laws overall and the cessation of prosecuting gay men for consensually engaging in homosexual activity, would have been looked upon as horribly radical (Far Left in nature) and not worthy of any respect. Now, in 2022, any criticism of male homosexuality (including gay marriage) is characterized as horribly reactionary and not worthy of any respect (Far Right in nature).
I submit, not meant in a slave-like Islamic sense, that it was wrong back in 1922 as much as it is now in 2022. Mankind often functions between extremes when the truth of matters lies, at least legally if not ethically, amidst the polar opposites of supposed “normal activity.”
Conclude accordingly and all the while doing so trying to determine where truth resides respecting this issue—and so many other “issues” in our era or in any era. Yes, truth is so often elusive. As here.
And, for the record, I still think there are absolutes OR, in the alternative, mankind has to pretend there are. Not doing so is so much worse, especially for such wonderful things like liberty, equality under the law, overall graciousness, or not stupidly concluding that Islam is just another religion, which this particular article inspired me to respond to in the first place. Yes, better a society without absolutes, dismal as that will prove to be, than having Islamic absolutes. A case of dumb or dumber.
In brief, enlightened religions like Judaism and Christianity play an important role in mankind’s advancement, independent of absolute truth. By contrast, evil religions like Islam and Satanism play no role in advancing mankind to its “the better angels of our nature.” Ah, if only Islam had as many followers as Satanism does. Yes, if only.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Wellington
I’ve heard Andrew Wilkow, a host on Sirius XM’s Patriot Channel, make the argument that the proverbial ‘slippery slope’ has turned out to be not so much a logical fallacy as much as a trend line. I guess it depends on who is doing the asking. For instance, Tibetans have been wanting independence from the Chinese, but I doubt that in the event they get it, that they would want to annex the rest of China in revenge for all those centuries that they were colonized and oppressed
But it’s been different for the LGBTQIA+ ‘community’. This whole societal derangement that we’re seeing today across the free world started several years ago when the Texas Supreme Court overturned Texas’ anti-sodomy laws. At the time, I was supportive of it. That ruling was followed by a campaign to recognize gay marriage. I was in the group that was okay w/ civil unions, where gay partners would have all the other rights that normal straight people have, such as hospital visitations, property inheritances and so on, but drew the line at having kids. In short, I wasn’t – and still am not (no, Justice Kennedy, you don’t get to redefine centuries of accepted norms throughout not just Western, but human history) in favor of gay marriage
Ever since that abominable SCOTUS ruling, we’ve not seen gays stop at marriage: it’s now the turn of the trannies, and we have everything from school kids being given surgeries w/o the knowledge of their parents to clowns like Sam Brinton stealing luggage at airports. So now I’m convinced that Wilkow’s assertion is correct, not for all people obviously, but definitely for members of the Left, as well as the sex/gender wackos. Which is why although a part of me is Libertarian, I do in retrospect support supposedly draconian laws like anti-sodomy laws, if that’s what it takes to keep society straight (in more ways than one)
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Very difficult times for both right and left leaning political centrists.
Just 10 -15 years ago, I would have been considered to be a right-leaning centrist.
Now me – the same person – am labeled as a “far-right” MAGA nutcase.
And at family gatherings (on my side), the “crazy uncle”…
࿗Infidel࿘ says
James
I got to meet family members this year – sister, bro-in-law, their kids and my mom. This was in Singapore, where I was the only one not masking, except indoors where it was mandatory. (Singapore only lifted its mandatory mask requirements after we left the country) And I found myself as the only one critical of the mandatory mask rules, pointing out how the pathogens are way smaller than the masks, and that one would need a clinically fitted mask to really satisfy the ostensible purpose of requiring us to wear them
And I didn’t even touch the issue of vaccines, which are now being increasingly questioned worldwide as more and more people are mysteriously dying way before, say, their 80s
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
Thank you for your reply, and you are correct regarding masks.
N95 “masks” (actually a type of respirator) are also useless unless they are fit tested. And when they are, they are very difficult to wear for more than 10 or 15 minutes – I’ve done it…
Wellington says
Thanks to both James and Infidel for their replies.
On a very specific matter, once the Massachusetts State Supreme Court in 2004 became the first state to legalize the absurdity which is gay marriage, I stated then to those close to me that this was the opening of Pandora’s Box and that many more abnormalities, some far more egregious than the stupidity which is gay marriage, would be normalized—like instructing (actually indoctrinating) very young children about sexual matters ad nauseam, even to the point, as we have regularly seen, having drag queens performing before 1st graders or, even worse, supplying 8 year olds with puberty blockers or cutting off the breasts of a 15 year old girl because she’s temporarily a tom boy and thinks herself a guy.
Gay marriage has been the key. Have that and you can have anything. A given. Guaranteed.
Scotsman48 says
It seems like everything these days is about homosexuality, in movies there always seems to be a love afraid with two men or two women or a man that is leaving his wife for a man and just how wonderful this all is.
If islamic Nations wish to have strict laws in their countries regarding homosexuality then thats their business and not ours as the Minister in Qatar and Kuwait said, ”we dont want an intellectual INVASION against their values”… I wish they would take that into consideration when all these muslims come into Europe as we dont need their garbage values either.
So we have to adjust to them but they dont need to adjust to us when they are in our non islamic lands but we must adjust to their 7th Century garbage when in an islamic Nation… Okay, Ive been in 6 islamic Nations, first one was Morocco, 1970, last one was Indonesia a few years ago, I even lived in Malaysia, never once did I break any of their Laws, though I did have a muslim girlfriend in Malaysia and thats called Kalwat, basically translated as Close Proximity..
gravenimage says
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain crack down on homosexuality
………………………………..
No surprise here. Qatar can stop even pretending to be a civilized nation, as they at least vaguely paid lip service to during the World Cup.