Posted on 01/31/2023 7:18:34 AM PST by RandFan
In Egypt, homosexuality is highly stigmatised, and there have long been allegations that police are hunting LGBT people online. Now BBC News has seen evidence of how the authorities are using dating and social apps to do this.
All victims' names have been changed
Having grown up in Egypt, I am aware of the pervasive homophobia that permeates every part of its society. But friends there tell me that the atmosphere has recently become far more brutal, and the tactics for tracking down LGBT people more sophisticated.
There is no explicit law against homosexuality in Egypt, but our investigation has found that the crime of "debauchery" - a sex work law - is being used to criminalise the LGBT community.
Transcripts submitted in police arrest reports show how officers are posing online to seek out - and in some cases allegedly fabricate evidence against - LGBT people looking for dates online.
They reveal how the police initiate text conversations with their targets.
Egypt is one of the most strategically important Western allies in the Middle East and receives billions of dollars in US and EU support every year. Around half a million British tourists visit the country annually and the UK trains Egyptian police forces, via the UN.
In one text conversation between an undercover police officer and someone using the social networking and dating app WhosHere, the officer appears to be pressuring the app user to meet up in person - that person was later arrested.
It is extremely difficult for LGBT people to openly meet potential dates in public in Egypt, so dating apps are a popular way to do that. But just using the apps - regardless of your sexuality - can be grounds for arrest based on the incitement of debauchery or public morality laws...
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There’s no such thing as homophobia.
Must be lies...the rest of the world loves and appreciates gays
Geez...before you know it, the FBI will be hunting pedophiles on-line.
Wow I hope America spends a trillion dollars to make Egypt be nicer to faggots
Yep. It is a made up nonsense term. May as well prattle on about rapistphobia or thiefphobia or liarphobia.
so many things they could investigate and they pick this
Remember, the West are the (neo) Marxists now.
Instead of using economics, military power and cultural subversion to promote “proletariat class consciousness” throughout the small nations of the world
We are now using the same tools to promote “homosexual rights.”
At the end of the day, the result is the same.
“no explicit law”
https://www.anic.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Islams-Clear-Position-on-Homosexuality.pdf
Maybe they are stopping Monkeypox? They are only in their first year of locking down gays to stop the spread. Surely the homos can understand the need to abstain to stop this bad disease.
“homosexuality”
The practice is generally shunned - for reasons of health.
Men are much more eager for sex than women, and venereal diseases can spread much faster as a result of male homosexuality.
Right, I hate the fact the left is allowed to steal the language. “pervasive homophobia “ would be a large scale irrational fear of poofters. They are not “afraid” of them, repulsed maybe.
Don’t let the camel get his nose under the tent. Once they get in, they shit all over the place. Just sayin.
Something odd about these Muslim countries and their hunting of homosexuals, is how often part of the abuse the law enforcers impose on them, is to have homosexual sex with them.
I don’t have a problem with this.
When Mystery Babylon finally falls, it’s going to have a ‘West’ side to it that looks a lot like major US cities, pride and all..
The gays should be thankful that Egypt is just homo-phobic. They could be like the Iranians— homo-cidal.
I’m no pleader for Egypt, but infectious disease control is reason on it’s own to shut down homosexual “dating.” Or at least to strongly discourage it.
homoloath is more like it...
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