Posted on 12/15/2014 9:33:36 AM PST by PROCON
CAIRO — Egypt’s government has aggressively cracked down on Islamist and liberal opponents over the past year. Now officials are increasingly targeting another group: gay people.
Police raided a public bathhouse in Cairo this month and arrested at least two dozen men, parading them half-naked in front of television cameras before hauling them off to prison.
It was the latest in a series of police busts at suspected meeting places of homosexuals across the country. Arrests of gay people have been on the rise since President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi seized power in a military coup in 2013, but in recent months the arrests have escalated, rights groups say.
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Come on over; we have free healthcare and you may even qualify for gender reassignment surgery.
Just make sure you vote democrat.
I salute the cops.I’d puke if I had to enter one of those places.
Cracking down on the gays makes sense because the presence of the gays foments a fundamentalist response. The government dealing with the gays is a proper strategy to protect the government from being taken over by the radicals.
I’m with Sissi.
like we need more idiots in this country; gee thanks.
But if the al-Sissi wants to control the Islamic nuts.
he could try subjecting the Islamists to sexual orientation sensitivity training, so to speak. gives the gays a chance to vent some frustration; it condemns the Islamist in the eyes of Allah and al-Sissi can control them more easily afterwards.
By chance, Barry wasn’t in Egypt this week was he?
Yup, picking on those gays really disturbs the WaPo.
They sense a disturbance in the (rear) force.
were the cops to raid a D.C. bath house GOD only knows the politicians they’d find.
Obammy, Lindsey Graham, to name a few.
i could see obammy being a towel boy at a male bath house after leaving office.
About all he’s qualified to do.
Good thing it wasn’t DC...Obama would be skeert!
So the summary:
Sissi jumps all over gays...
Never use the word crack/ing and gay/s in the same sentence.
I think they are concerned about the potential burden of HIV infectees on the economy. Or how about the fact that they do have a threat of more radical elements finding homos as fuel for their fire.
Good for them! Not very long ago, the US was also shaming and prosecuting that disgusting behavior. Then we lost our collective minds.
Some of those cops you salute are going to rape those poor bastards in jail.
Our own President Bath House, I’m sure, will get the vapors over this.
“No Olympics for you!”
Jeeze, they’ve got a Sissi running the country, and they’re still having problems there.
I was saluting them for their strong stomachs,not their third-world morals.
I was saluting them for their strong stomachs,not their third-world morals.
Just as long as they don’t raid camel herds, everyone will be okay.
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