Kenya gay activist criticises Odinga crackdown threat (homosexual sex = arrest)

BBC ^ | 11/29/2010

[markomalley]

A gay rights activist has criticised Kenya's prime minister for threatening a crackdown on homosexual people.

David Kuria from the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya told the BBC that Raila Odinga's comments would encourage people to extort money from gay and lesbian people.

On Sunday, Mr Odinga warned that men or women found engaging in homosexual acts would be arrested.

It was believed to be the first time he has made such comments.

Mr Kuria told the BBC's Network Africa programme that he did not know why Mr Odinga made the comments.

He said most African leaders who condemned homosexuals were trying to gain political leverage but he said Mr Odinga was already popular so his statement was "surprising".

An MP in neighbouring Uganda last year tried to introduce the death penalty for some homosexual acts, sparking international condemnation.

The BBC's Caroline Karobia in Nairobi says gay people are largely left alone in Kenya as long as they do not draw attention to themselves.

The city is home to some well-known gay pubs, she says. 'Sad'

Mr Odinga made his comments in a speech to his constituency in the Nairobi slum of Kibera.

"We will not tolerate such behaviours in the country. The constitution is very clear on this issue and men or women found engaging in homosexuality will not be spared," he said.

[TommyDale]

How could Odinga do this to his “favorite son” from Kenya?

[IbJensen]

We have a loopy Marxist in the White Hut who may swing both ways. Perhaps the Kenyan is interested in a czarist position.

[ETL]

From the website Atlas Shrugs, June 17, 2008:

Watch this video of the conflict in Kenya months back [see link below]. Odinga and Obama are Luo. Odinga and his American counterpart and strategist Obama both campaigned on this canard of "change". Obama campaigned for Odinga. Adam pointed out that Obama's been in Nairobi politicking more recently than he's been to Iraq. Why now does Obama pretend he doesn't know him?

Listen as the Luo calls itself the "Taliban" in the video. It's graphic, it's gruesome but it is who Obama supported. Watch the whole thing, particularly the Luos burning a church, raping women, and hacking a man to death -vid hat tip kasper

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/06/odinga-and-obam.html

[Lee'sGhost]

Odinga is Obama’s cousin, apparently.

From http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/kenyas_killing_fields/

Atlas covered the unspeakable violence following the loss of Obama-supported, sharia-promoting Raila Odinga in the Kenyan presidential election back in 2008. Obama opposed our American ally, President Kibaki, and supported his pal, Raila Odinga, who used rape as a weapon. Odinga tore through the country using murder and rape as his weapons of choice. Justice Minister Martha Karua said that Odinga’s group (Orange Democratic Movement) had planned to carry out systematic ethnic cleansing.

And...

The violence against the people of Kenya was a horror. Obama never denounced Odinga’s genocide. Raila’s thugs used rape as a weapon.

I lived in Kenya for about 2 years and have some understanding of the beautiful country. What is happening is a shame.

Obama has called the 2 leaders to talk about the ‘rigged’ election but he has not issued any statement on the atrocities committed by Raila Odinga’s supporters. Around new years, women and children taking refuge in a church were burned by Raila supporters. I thought this could have sparked a reaction from Obama but it did not. Instead, he called his cousin twice to show his concern about the election.

[stickywillie]

obama and odinga share a dream, but barry can’t talk about it.

[ETL]

Also from AtlasShrugs...

"Kenya's first truly free and fair democratic election was in December 2002, won by Mwai Kibaki and a multi-ethnic coalition party NARC (National Rainbow Coalition). One of the leaders of that coalition was Raila Odinga.

Kibaki didn't give him positions in the new government that he felt were important enough, so Odinga formed an opposition party, ODM (Orange Democratic Movement, orange the symbol color of opposition).

When Raila Odinga lost the presidential election last week (12/27/2007) to Mwai Kibaki, he claimed the vote was rigged, whereupon his tribal followers went on murderous rampages such as in the town of Eldoret, where on New Years Day dozens of people were burned to death in a church set on fire.

Throughout Kenya, hundreds of people have been politically murdered in the last few days.

Kenya's 37 million people are divided up into over three dozen tribes and sub-tribes, but the two dominant ones are Kikuyu and Luo. Kenyan politics since independence in 1963 has essentially been a duke-out between them.

The father of Kenyan independence and president until 1978 was Jomo Kenyatta, a Kikuyu. His main political opponent was Oginga Odinga, known as "OO," a Luo and Raila's father.

While Kenyatta was pro-West and sided with America in the Cold War, OO [Oginga Odinga, Raila's father] was a Communist who was aided and supported by the Soviet Union.

That's why Raila went to school in East Germany (born in 1945, he graduated from Magdeburg University in 1970), and named his first-born son after Fidel Castro.

Thus it likely won't shock you to learn that Raila has now made a deal for support from the Soviets' successors as world-champion enemies of the West and democratic freedoms: Moslem fundamentalists.

The Evangelical Alliance of Kenya has posted on its website a photograph copy of a Memorandum of Understanding, dated and signed on August 29, 2007, between Raila Odinga and Shiekh Abdullah Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum of Kenya.

It pledges the support of Kenyan Moslems for Raila's election. In return, as President of Kenya, Raila agrees to 14 actions, listed a) through n) on page two. Read them all, and be sure you're sitting down. Here's a sample:

b) Within 6 months re-write the Constitution of Kenya to recognize Shariah as the only true law sanctioned by the Holy Quran for Muslim declared regions.

c) With immediate effect dismiss the Commissioner of Police who has allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists to oppress the Kenyan Muslim community.

g) Within one year facilitate the establishment of a Shariah court in every Kenyan divisional headquarters. [Note: everywhere in Kenya, not just in "Muslim declared regions."]

Again, read all of them, for others are just as bad or worse.

It may also not surprise you that Raila is not Moslem himself, but claims to be a practicing Anglican. Only a minority of Luo are Moslem (most are Christian). Kenya on the whole is Christian, with 80% of Kenyans either Protestant or Roman Catholic, while only 10% are Moslem.

And here is the biggest non-surprise: Raila Odinga has, in his own words, a "close personal friendship" with Barrack Hussein Obama Junior.

When Obama went to Kenya in August of 2006, he was hosted by Raila and spoke in praise of him at rallies in Nairobi:

Much more at:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/kenyas_killing_fields/index.html

[ETL]

Lots of great stuff on the Obama-Odinga connection on this thread by freeper 'Rome2000'...

MEET FIDEL CASTRO ODINGA (Obama campaigns for a guy who named his son after Fidel Castro)
Tuesday, September 2, 2008 | Manuel A.Tellechea

Posted on Wednesday, October 08, 2008 5:52:57 PM by Rome2000

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100822/posts

[ETL]

FIDEL CASTRO ODINGA

The Barack Obama - Fidel Castro Odinga axis
http://www.forerunner.com/blog/the-barack-obama-fidel-castro-odinga-axis

[ETL]

From Raila Odinga's official campaign website:

"Your Agent For Change", "Register For Change", "Vote For Change"

(site no longer exists)
http://www.raila07.com/

[Joe Boucher]

Good morning MarkOmalley,
Tell me it wouldn’t be funny as can be if after leaving office Obammy gets arrested for having homosexual sex with a few young boys in Kenya>?
No way you could say it would be the first time for him.

[onedoug]

What´s that? ´Sounds sortta´ like crickets.... Hmmm. ´Thought it was American gays. Oh well.... Never mind.

[GraceG]

Barry keepin’ it on the “Down Low”....

[Beckwith]

Looks like Obama won’t be visiting Kenya any time in the future.

[maggief]

Troll.

[TommyDale]

"Troll."

Who, me? LOL!

[maggief]

UM, it is what it is.

[TommyDale]

Thanks for the heads up.

[maggief]

UM, more like "pants on the ground."

/gameover

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

"UM, more like "pants on the ground."

Correction:
UM, more like "pimps, posers & trolls" on the ground"