So much for the bullshit meme "Dose mooslims hate fags more than I do!"
While that may apply to this western muslim, it certainly doesnt seem to apply to many ME muslims. Considering so many support horrible actions over there.
I've been to the Middle East. The picture painted by ignorant bigoted ***** in the US about middle eastern Muslims is total horseshit.
You're fulla shit. Even the most moderate "modernized" of Muslim countries will have one form or another of Islamic Shariah law that it's people follow and is in its civil code, which means persecution of gays is officially sanctioned by Muslim governments.
Everything you need to know about being gay in Muslim countries
At another level, though, it’s no joking matter. In Iran today,
lavat (sodomy) is a capital offence and people are frequently executed for it. In Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen and Mauritania, sodomy is also punishable by death – though no executions have been reported for at least a decade.
Among other Arab countries, the penalty in
Algeria, Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Somalia, Tunisia and Syria is imprisonment – up to 10 years in the case of Bahrain. In those that have no specific law against homosexuality, gay people may still be prosecuted under other laws. In Egypt, for example, an old law against “debauchery” is often used.
These laws have a catastrophic effect on the lives of people who are unlucky enough to get caught but, despite occasional crackdowns, the authorities don’t, on the whole, actively seek out gay people to arrest them. Statistics are scarce but the number of arrests is undoubtedly lower than it was during the British wave of homophobia in the 1950s. In England in 1952, there were 670 prosecutions for sodomy, 3,087 for attempted sodomy or indecent assault, and 1,686 for gross indecency.
The problem with such laws, even if not vigorously enforced, is that they signal official disapproval of homosexuality and, coupled with the fulminations of religious scholars, legitimise discrimination by individuals at an everyday level and may also provide an excuse for action by vigilantes. Years before Isis began throwing allegedly gay men off the top of buildings, other groups in Iraq were
attacking “un-manly” men – sometimes killing them slowly by injecting glue into the anus.
Arrests in the Arab countries often involve groups of men at parties (sometimes described as gay “weddings”) and occasionally at
hammams (bathhouses). Individuals or couples accused of having unlawful sex may be arrested for a variety of reasons, including some which initially are unrelated to homosexuality. There are also reported cases where people suspected of being gay have been arrested by police seeking to elicit bribes or turn the suspects into informers. For those caught, the effect on their lives is catastrophic but the law is not much of a deterrent and for those who are discreet about their sexuality the risk of arrest is small.
In 2007, under pressure from Islamist members of parliament, Kuwait amended its penal code so that anyone “imitating the opposite sex in any way” could face up to a year in jail and/or a fine of 1,000 dinars ($3,500). Within a couple of weeks at least
14 people were thrown into prison for the new offence.