Last week, Norway and other Western countries try to stop reforming the wording of a UN resolution that will protect all people against the killings and executions based on discrimination.they tried to include sexual orientation a part of this resolution …
Posted in Assholes, Bad news, Culture, Culture and Society, Gender, Homosexuality, Human Rights, Middle East, Minorities | 3 CommentsIt was on monday sept 27 around 3am Egypt, Cairo, Downtown, Tahreer Squair, Talat Harb st. We were sitting on a cafe-shop, when we saw a young boy (Kareem he is 16 and he lives in El Salam) beeing offended …
Posted in Civil Rights, Culture and Society, Egypt, Gender, Homosexuality, Minorities, Sexism, Society, Taboos | Tagged homophobia | Leave a comment[...] I started a new segment titled “Fatwa of the Day” [on my blog]. Every couple days I submit a post that discusses a certain Fatwa by a certain religious scholar [...]
[...]Here are the Fatwa’s I’ve posted so far [...]
The international community is shocked by a brutal police raid on a gay house in Iraq. The house was inhabited by two gay, one lesbian and two transvestites. The house was burned down after the raid. The incident took place …
Posted in Homosexuality, Iraq | 5 CommentsWorking in a new country requires an insight into its culture and customs. It makes good sense to understand the cultural and religious differences in the country where you live and work. Making a cultural faux pas is easy and …
Posted in Awareness, Civil Rights, Homosexuality, UAE | 2 CommentsThis is the first podcast in a long series on homosexuality in Sudan. Mideast Youth talks to Ali, a single gay Sudanese man living and working in the Gulf. When Ali started his blog, black-gay-Arab, he was only trying to find …
Posted in Activism, Homosexuality, Podcasts, Sudan, Taboos | 5 Comments6 Iraqi gay people were executed by machine guns in Sader city in April 2009, this makes the number of executed gays in Iraq reach 10 after 4 other executions in March in the last few weeks, 25 boys and …
Posted in Civil Rights, Homosexuality, Honour Crimes, Iraq, Society, Taboos | 37 CommentsThat homosexuality is an illegal and (harshly!) punishable act in almost all Muslim-majority countries is an established fact, and a change in legislation anytime in the foreseeable future is as possible as a cow jumping over the moon. But even …
Posted in Culture, Film, Homosexuality, Islam, USA, Videos | 3 CommentsAfter Iman’s post about Parvez Sharma’s new film Jihad for Love…I started thinking about Muslim attitudes towards homosexuality…obviously it is a taboo subject and certainly not something that is accepted by society. In Islam it is generally regarded as completely …
Posted in Arabs, Homosexuality, Islam, Media, Middle East | 28 CommentsWhile Bahrain is considered one of the more tolerant nations in the Middle East, especially in comparison to its Gulf neighbours, homosexuality remains a crime there. However, Al Menbar bloc, not content that the penalty of fines, imprisonment or deportation …
Posted in Bahrain, Homosexuality, Ridiculous | 11 Comments