Gulf states to introduce medical testing on travellers to 'detect' gay people

[Nuclear Unicorn]

Gulf states to introduce medical testing on travellers to 'detect' gay people and stop them from entering the country

A medical test being developed by Kuwait will be used to 'detect' homosexuals and prevent them from entering the country – or any of the Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC), according to a Kuwaiti government official.


GCC member countries – Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – already deem homosexual acts unlawful.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2449051/Gulf-states-introduce-medical-testing-travellers-detect-gay-people-stop-entering-country.html

Where's a rolling roadblock trucker convoy to protest these chuckleheads when you need one?

[Glorfindel]

1. Oh, jeez...until read your post, I thought you meant FL, AL, MS, LA, and TX

Not that I'd put it past them...

Still another reason not to visit the hideous desolation of the "Gulf states." I wonder if this will have any effect on the World Cup to be held in Qatar?

[Wounded Bear]

7. Me, too....

I put nothing beyond the American Talibangelists.

Not surprising in the Arab countries, I suppose. Our actions re: The Middle East have done more for radical Islamists than we could imagine. The more we blunder around over there, the more fundamentalists sprout up.

[NightWatcher]

10. OOOOh, the OTHER Gulf states

To be fair, if our Gulf states attempted the same, it wouldn't surprise me either.

[Katashi_itto]

13. Same here, was thinking WTF, my best friend is gay and you'd never know it.

A test?

[KamaAina]

2. Why don't they just use those Nigerian magnets?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023676787

[Newsjock]

3. News story from the region

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/kuwait/homosexuals-to-be-barred-from-entering-kuwait-1.1240199

The routine clinical screening of expatriates coming into the Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC) might be also used to “detect” homosexuals, a senior Kuwaiti official has said.

A central committee tasked with the status of expatriates will look into the proposal when it convenes on November 11, Yousuf Mindkar, the director of public health at the Kuwaiti health ministry, has said.

“Health centres conduct the routine medical check to assess the health of the expatriates when they come into the GCC countries,” he said. “However, we will take stricter measures that will help us detect gays who will be then barred from entering Kuwait or any of the GCC member states,” he said, quoted by local daily Al Rai on Monday.

[Journeyman]

4. You'd think their time would be better spent devising a medical test to detect "stupid". . .

(though one suspects such a diagnosis would find most of these "officials" deported from their own countries).

[Lex]

5. So they have a medical test

that can detect 'teh gay', do they?

[Nuclear Unicorn]

8. Question 1: Do you like comfortable shoes?

[KamaAina]

6. Aren't you glad we freed Kuwait from the iron grip of Saddam Hussein

and brought freedom and democracy and stuff back?

[Nuclear Unicorn]

9. I doubt Saddam was an advocate of LGBT rights.

[Zorra]

11. RW religious people are such sad, ignorant, hateful little creatures. I pity them.

Imagine how lonely and horrible it must be to live with so much hate, confusion, and darkness inside your consciousness. Ugh. Like having squirming masses of maggots obscuring their souls, eating away at whatever remains of any human decency they may have left.

It has to be hell on earth for them. It's no wonder they are so fucking mean.

[joeybee12]

12. Well, if a guy shows up and he's not wearing one brown and one blue sock...

Then that should clue them in.