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How gay rights advance democracy in the Middle East
Monterey Herald ^ | 07/23/16 | Antoun Issa

Posted on 07/23/2016 9:25:09 AM PDT by artichokegrower

Last month’s massacre at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida, launched a heated debate about the relationship between Islam and homosexuality, and more acutely, about the prevalence of a virulent homophobia in the Islamic world. But in the Middle East, this debate began long before Orlando. LGBT people in this part of the world have been battling for their rights for years, and not without casualties.

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The LGBT movement is not only alive in the Islamic world, but is a leading challenger of the region’s extremists and autocrats alike.


No they will cut your head off, hang you or throw you off of a building. You are not going to COEXIST with Muslims.

1 posted on 07/23/2016 9:25:09 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

I thought muzzies hated queers


2 posted on 07/23/2016 9:26:43 AM PDT by TYVets
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To: artichokegrower
The LGBT movement

In the Muslim world, the G stands for goat.

3 posted on 07/23/2016 9:26:51 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: artichokegrower

No.


4 posted on 07/23/2016 9:27:56 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: artichokegrower

It is absolutely fascinating watching many media outlets focus on a tiny percentage of the population when absolutely ignoring the systematic oppression of women in the Middle East; from requirements of being covered in a bag lest an ankle or wrist show at the wrong moment, to saying a woman could be arrested for invasion of privacy should she pick up and look at her husband’s cell phone without his permission.

Oh, right, who cares about that, we’ve got gays to support.


5 posted on 07/23/2016 9:29:47 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: artichokegrower

Under Islamic law, in accordance with the teachings and example of their prophet, muslims kill homosexuals.

The prescribed method in the Koran is to throw them from tall buildings.
If tall buildings are not available, stoning will do.
If stones are unavailable, then beheading or shooting will suffice.

There is NO tolerance for anything in Islam.
Mad Mo made it so.


6 posted on 07/23/2016 9:30:00 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: artichokegrower

What I like the best is the greatest amount of “Islamophobia” is suffered by moslems themselves. Sunni versus Shia. Jihadists versus moderates. And so on. And they kill themselves by the thousands over it. Something to be exceptionally proud of.


7 posted on 07/23/2016 9:30:16 AM PDT by disndat
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To: artichokegrower

Yes the Gays will save Western Civ.


8 posted on 07/23/2016 9:31:01 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts ( Screech and the Squawks, or Hillary and her band of fairy misfits)
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To: artichokegrower

Just how long is this supposed “I wanna be queer” line in the Middle East.

I don’t see American LGBT members scrambling for airline tickets to the Middle East.

The whole think is a racket to boost support for homos.


9 posted on 07/23/2016 9:32:36 AM PDT by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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To: artichokegrower

The delusion/propaganda is thick in the American media.


10 posted on 07/23/2016 9:33:08 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: TYVets

Yes, it is a death penalty in Islam for two adult men to have sex - but pederasty is OK.
The Orlando shooter’s mosque had a speaker calling for death to Muslims.

‘Gays must die,’ says Muslim at Orlando mosque
Declares it’s ‘the compassionate’ thing to do
http://www.wnd.com/2016/06/gays-must-die-says-muslim-at-orlando-mosque/


11 posted on 07/23/2016 9:33:12 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: artichokegrower

However PayPal moved out of NC because of that bathroom issue but still operates in the ME.


12 posted on 07/23/2016 9:33:16 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Glad2bnuts

Homosexuals: saving men from any pretense of righteousness and virtue since the days of Sodom.


13 posted on 07/23/2016 9:34:10 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: artichokegrower

“Mohammed does not like homos. They should be hung.”
Well, He likes them hung, but not HUNG.
Poor Mohammed.


14 posted on 07/23/2016 9:46:34 AM PDT by jessduntno (The mind of a liberal...deceit, desire for control, greed, contradiction and fueled by hate.)
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To: artichokegrower

Advance the whole leftist agenda in the Middle East - keep them weak. There are few more potent poisons for a society.

I suspect that statistically, a higher percentage of the population there has engaged in homosexual behavior, so it might be an even more potent political tool there.


15 posted on 07/23/2016 9:58:56 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: artichokegrower

Not true, Islam is a Sodomite religion from its very foundation. Muslims are promised, in addition to virgins, 72 little brown eyed boys in their perverted heaven. Mohammed was known to rape his victims, which is why Muslims will rape their male and female victims to this day. Pederasty is practiced in virtually all Islamic nations. Many of the terrorists are into homosexual hookup apps and gay clubs. Yes, they throw some homosexuals off buildings, but only the outwardly feminine ones.


16 posted on 07/23/2016 10:03:59 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Not true. Islam is a Sodomite religion from its inception. Read my post to artichokegrower


17 posted on 07/23/2016 10:05:47 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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Perhaps they could get together and send a few thousand of these over there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_net


18 posted on 07/23/2016 12:29:42 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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