Tommy Tainant
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The Global Divide on Homosexuality
Since this thread began with notions that hate speech leads to violence, and hate speech against gays leads to violence against gay people, to be put in the proper perspective, it is necessary to examine which societies do and do not support rights for gay people. Since I support such rights, and others only CLAIM to support them, let's take a look at this, folks, shall we?
As anybody can see as plainly as day, Muslims are the very LEAST likely people in the world to support gay rights, as hatred of homosexuals is near universal. Heck, the support for actually killing gay people is alarmingly high, so you can't have it both ways, people. If you want to support gay rights, then support gay rights. If you want to promote a hateful ideology called Islam, then promote a hateful ideology called Islam.
This notion that gay rights only matter in our liberal, western societies while any criticism of the political-religious ideology that persecutes gay people is "hate speech" is complete bunk. It is just feel-good double talk that has nothing to do with the values involved, but everything to do with saying the politically correct things everybody else is saying.
Its a false argument.Even looking at your data it is clear that the issues are more closely related to education and diversity. There are many christian nations that show similar levels of homophobia as those muslim ones you highlight. Christian Homphobes cite bible passages that are homophobic as well. In fact it is the hardline African Bishops that are driving Anglicanism to schism over the subject of Gay rights .
Jamaican Gays can actually claim political asylum in the UK because of their sexuality.
In brief the whole world has some way to go in order to reach acceptable standards and not just Muslim nations.
And to answer your initial point. Hate speech from any quarter is not acceptable.