Can you imagine being hung for being gay?

[angstlessk]

I am a white heterosexual women and am crying. These men deserve to love whomever they chose...I am angry!

[madaboutharry]

1. I'm afraid to watch this.

Where did this happen?

[Bluenorthwest]

2. In a nation ruled by religious heterosexuals.

Want to see the Russian straights attack a gay kid? That's in today's news too. Also, Zimbabwe's President says he wants to execute gay people too. It goes on and on.

[angstlessk]

5. RELIGION IS THE ENEMY OF ALL...

I am shaking when saying that...I am so angry

[livingwagenow]

36. +1000. nt

[angstlessk]

3. Iran...I too did not want to watch..but was compelled

because of the injustice..I does not show them hanging..

[Agschmid]

39. Be nice if the OP let us know that...

[Nye Bevan]

4. "Homosexual activity is a crime and forbidden in most Muslim-majority countries"

Scholars of Islam, such as Sheikh al-Islam Imam Malik, and Imam Shafi amongst others, ruled that Islam disallowed homosexual activity and ordained capital punishment for a person guilty of it.[1] Homosexual activity is a crime and forbidden in most Muslim-majority countries. In the Islamic regimes of Iran, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, North Sudan and Yemen, homosexual activity is punished with the death penalty. In Nigeria and Somalia the death penalty is issued in some regions.[2] The legal punishment for sodomy has varied among juristic schools: some prescribe capital punishment; while other prescribe a milder discretionary punishment such as imprisonment. In some relatively secular Muslim-majority countries such as Indonesia,[3] Jordan and Turkey this is not the case; and there are no specific civil laws against homosexual practice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_in_Islam

[angstlessk]

9. What happened to bennie (sic) boys?

My father had a very impressive collection of very exotic pornographic books (in the 60's) which I would steal and read..and I read about young boys who pleasured the rich...in Muslim countries...has that changed..or did it ever exist?

[dballance]

22. No, it has not changed

Google "dancing boys of the middle east"

[angstlessk]

29. A bennie (sic) boy by any other name...keep the women pure and let a little boy

pleasure you...these people are disgusting ... I believed it when I read my fathers books and I believe it now.

[SQUEE]

40. I had alalways assumed "man love Thursday" to be

a joke or a en exaggeration till I went to the sandbox for a deployment. It is a part of the culture and disturbing and repulsive reminder of how "believers" can manipulate and twist dogma to fit any situation to justify their own actions.
I see RW Xtians do it here not nearly to the same degree, at least not yet. But crude AIDS jokes and dehumanization of "queers and faggots" is the first step to a pogrom. W must always attack and shame those who seek to divide and dehumanize anyone.

[angstlessk]

11. Because it is in wikipedia it is the right thing?? WHY EVEN POST THAT?

We know they murder their fellow citizens for being gay...I do not care what wikipedia says...FUCK wikipedia!

[Nye Bevan]

14. Yes. Don't you HATE it when DUers use Wikipedia as a source? Like this one did:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1018&pid=340932

[angstlessk]

19. About an insect?? You think that is equalivent?

Wow...genocide vs insect...lets debate..or debase..whichever you chose

[Nye Bevan]

21. So when you said "FUCK Wikipedia", did you mean

"FUCK Wikipedia, except for stuff about insects"?

[angstlessk]

24. yes

[Nye Bevan]

25. Thanks for the clarification. (nt)

[Igel]

38. Wiki's uneven.

Some times it has really good, accurate, detailed, up-to-date information.

One of my wife's colleagues died overnight (years ago now) and she got a call early the next morning. I asked how old he was and she didn't know. I was at my computer and checked his wiki page.

It had been updated to include the date and time of his death and the circumstances of his death, and had been updated shortly after the dept. started making calls.


Sometimes it has truly crappy information.

Rule of thumb: The more controversial a topic and the less tied it is to observable and verifiable facts, the worse the page. Every once in a while "controversial" is strictly field dependent--"string theory" and some of its aspects are nearly as controversial as the Naqba.

When I wanted to get an understanding of the Stark effect a few days ago, that's where I turned. It went from basics to as far as I could follow and then just kept on going. It's not the same wiki as 10 years ago (and that's a good thing).

[Whisp]

6. Russia isn't too kind to gay people either.

but Snowden thinks it is more attuned to human rights than the U.S. is.

yah, you believe that shit?

[MrSlayer]

7. The only thing stopping the Christian Taliban from doing it here are our secular laws.

They would love to, don't doubt it.

[Nye Bevan]

10. There it is. The obligatory "Christianity is just as bad" post

that is required in any DU thread about Islamic Fundamentalism.

And let me take this opportunity to bring up the Crusades, and the Salem Witch Trials, too.

Oh, and sometimes members of my local Episcopalian church double-park.

[angstlessk]

13. AND IT FUCKING IS..SEE THE 'CHRISTIANS' IN UGANDA KILLING GAYS

[Nye Bevan]

15. Shhhh. It's late (nt)

[angstlessk]

17. Screw you....'It's late'...you are the reason this atrocity happens...you think

your religion is better than the life of people who disagree (see Rwanda)

[cynatnite]

34. So, you think all Christians are responsible?

You don't think that's a bit of extreme thinking on your part? To blame an entire group?

I'm an atheist and I have zero use for any religion, but I don't paint all religious believers with the same brush.

A lot of Christians have been at the forefront of moving progressive values forward and their faith played a huge role. They're not out killing others who don't believe as they do.

[Bluenorthwest]

20. Zimbabwe

Christians. Good stuff.

[sabrina 1]

32. Uganda also, Fundamentalist Christians from this country have been there spewing their hate

to influence the government.

[Bluenorthwest]

16. Some 85% of Zimbabweans are Christian; 62% of the population attends religious services regularly.

Zimbabwean President Wants to Decapitate Gay Men and chastises President Obama.
The president of Zimbabwe continued his long record of vicious antigay rhetoric on Tuesday, when he told a group of supporters of the nation's ruling Zanu PF party that gay men should be decapitated if they cannot conceive children, according to U.K. LGBT site Pink News.

Speaking before thousands at a rally at Aerodrome, Mugabe said, "If you take men and lock them in a house for five years and tell them to come up with two children and they fail to do that, then we will chop off their heads," according to Zimbabwe's NewsDay.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023349673#post9

The speck in Islam's eye is the plank in Christianity's.

[angstlessk]

23. I remember when missionaries spread the good word..now they spread death and

destruction...GOD DOES NOT EXIST...MAN CREATED GOD ..GOD DID NOT CREATE MAN

[Bluenorthwest]

28. The other poster will not respond to the facts offered much less consider activism

within the faith community to try to stop these horrors. 'It's late'. Indeed it is.

[Lars39]

37. Christian Taliban=Funamentalists, not all christians

The difference is just a knee-jerk away.

[Posteritatis]

33. "The only thing stopping them from doing it is our not allowing them to do it here"

That's not really an "only" for this sort of thing.

[Apophis]

8. Fuck any religion that does this to homosexuals.

[arely staircase]

12. recommended nt

[Change has come]

18. Yes.

n/t

[eShirl]

26. "hanged"

and no, I can't fully imagine it

[angstlessk]

27. Gosh I hate you grammarians but not really..you remind us of grade school

and proper English...buy not the British English

[leveymg]

30. If you're appalled by the inhumanity and violence of this, just wait until the war starts.

You really need to think about the suffering on a much wider scale and impact that will have, too.

[AllINeedIsCoffee]

31. Barbaric fuckers. nt

[COLGATE4]

35. No, but I can sure

imagine being hanged if I were gay.