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Yemen will publicly stone & crucify 10 gay men in “gruesome public spectacles”
(www.lgbtqnation.com)
greg abbott and ron desantis taking notes
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2024
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Wow, sounds like a Christian utopia.
Great now let’s marginalize another community, next will be blind or deaf? And tie it to another nations Americans aren’t supposed to support.
Barbarians.
If you want to know why I'm an atheist.
What kind of entity has 3 different sects of people who all believe this is what it wants?
Religion is a cancer.
You can treat cancer, religion is a parasite that needs to be wiped off the face of the planet.
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They shouldn’t give the GOP any more ideas
The GOP surely inspired some part of this.
Oh suddenly we hear about this what a coincidence. I'm incredibly queer and I do not think genocide is ever justified nor is retaliation to economically hindering genocide.
Did you know if you genocide a population, the queer people in that population die horrifically too?
Essentially, fuck all you commenters, don't fucking use our identity to justify your evil when the reality is that you feel bad for going on gay bashing runs in the 90s. You weren't a good person then and you aren't a good person now that you diverted your hatred.
Every queer i know online and offline stands with Palestine. No more fucking death. No more videos of kids being executed to end up on my feed.
The Houthis have NOTHING TO DO WITH PALESTINE. What are you guys on? They are randomly disrupting trade routes in the red sea for political clout and nothing more. Just because they claim it's to help their Palestinian allies does not give them any agency. That would be like Spain randomly attacking fleets in the Mediterranean to support Ukraine.
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seconding as a trans person. everyone i know supports palestine to the hilt. you cannot change the situation on the ground for lgbt people in yemen with war and bombs.
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It looks like our identity is only useful to them for warmongering. God forbid we get healthcare, workplace protections, anything. Instead all we see are our names used to inspire wars we want no part in against countries where our governments literally fund their reactionary parties.
It's a self-fulfilling cycle, they use us as the symbols and the reason for their destruction and then the orphans left behind mistake their enemy as queer people around the planet and then the West uses us as their casus belli again until they've killed every last one. They will never give them a chance to progress socially because the goal is total genocide.
Fuck every warhawk in this comment section using us as their excuse for POINTLESS FUCKING WARS.
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Hey, as one of those people who used slurs in the past, I'm sorry. I wasn't a good person, I followed the crowd. I'm trying hard to be a better person. You don't have to accept me or my apology. I just want to put it out there. Sorry you and your community was hurt by people like me.
It sounds to me like you're a good person. The people they're talking about are the ones who may have stopped hating, say, gay people -- but who have redirected their bigotry toward other marginalized groups like trans people or Palestinians.
In my opinion, there's effectively no such thing as a good or bad person -- it's the words and actions that count. No matter what you've done in the past, that's over now.
This is big of you. Props on growing as a person and admitting fault. We should always welcome new allies in the fight for equality.
This! One of the most disgusting trends I've seen are people misappropriating queer symbology to try to queerwash their genocide of Palestinians. They don't care about us anymore than they care about the children they're murdering.
You really think the Houthis care about Palestine??? Because they told you that's why they are attacking random trade vessels in the red sea?
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The Wahabbi interpretation of Sharia law in Saudi Arabia maintains that acts of homosexuality should be disciplined in the same way as adultery - with death by stoning. Homosexuality or nonconformant gender expression can also be punished by corporal punishment, flogging, imprisonment or forced ‘conversion’ therapy.
This isn't unusual in the Middle East. There's a number of reasons for this (mostly based on colonialism and imperialism by more powerful players), but this is unfortunately the status quo.
Are you saying there was no stoning of gay people before the Brits arrived? What the hell does "colonialism" have to do with Sharia law that was implement over 600 years ago? I swear "colonialism" is the new popular word of the day on my bingo card.
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This is very unfortunate.
But surely this is because Arabs are inherently savage and backwards, and has nothing to do with all the wars and bombs that created the worse humanitarian crisis of the century. (sarcasm)
That's some serious triple summersault mental gymnastics to defend the Houthis. Might as well go back and start with the cooling of the earth 4 billion years ago if you really want to know the culprit.
the worse humanitarian crisis of the century
Comparing tragedies doesn't really make sense but you should look up the Tigray Way before making that claim
Here's a source for the claim if you're interested. Google will reveal mods.
Are there any reputable journalistic sources that are reporting on it as well?
All the sources that I can find are Jerusalem Post, Amnesty International, QNews, and the like.
It's weird that AP, BBC, Al Jazeera, etc. are all silent when this is pretty big news if true.