Posted on 11/27/2005 9:32:50 AM PST by Lorianne
UAE mulls punishment against dozens arrested at mass gay wedding ___ DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - More than two dozen gay Arab men ¡ª arrested at what police called a mass homosexual wedding ¡ª could face government-ordered hormone treatments, five years in jail and a lashing, authorities said Saturday.
The Interior Ministry said police raided a hotel chalet earlier this month and arrested 22 men from the Emirates as they celebrated the wedding ceremony, one of a string of recent group arrests of homosexuals here.
The men are likely to be tried under Muslim law on charges related to adultery and prostitution, said Interior Ministry spokesman Issam Azouri.
Outward homosexual behavior is banned in the United Arab Emirates, and the gay group wedding has alarmed leaders of this once-isolated Muslim country as it grapples with a sweeping influx of Western residents and culture.
The Arabian peninsula, nevertheless, has a long tradition of openly homosexual wedding singers and dancers.
¡°Lately people have been talking about (homosexuality), but it has been here for a long time,¡± said Nadia Buhannad, a Dubai psychologist. ¡°It becomes shocking only when it is your own son.¡±
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I guess the UAE is crossed off for gay honeymoons.
sight of the next Disney theme park, I think not!
I think they need more lead in their system
You think this will turn the American left against the Palistinians and other Arab terrorists? Fat chance.
Hormone treatment?
Or pig hormones?
Does Michael Jackson know this yet?
Eeeew! At least it wasn't a "mass homosexual honeymoon"
A Lashing? They might enjoy that.
BTW - Arab culture doesn't consider all man-man/boy sex to be homosexual. Only the one playing catcher is considered to be gay.
Proof the arabs aren't all bad......
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