We have another grotesque application of Sharia law out of Saudi Arabia. A court in Medina has applied Islamic law to sentence a man to three years in jail and 450 lashes for being gay. The unnamed 24-year-old man was arrested after a sting operation by the notorious Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (CPVPV) where they arranged a meeting over social media.
The man’s cellphone reportedly revealed incriminating pictures and he confessed. He was then found guilty of “promoting the vice and practice of homosexuality.”
The court noted that he had “indecent images” and “pornographic images of homosexual perversion.”
The barbaric 450 lashes will be meted out in 15 sessions. That’s right, 30 lashes a session to satisfy God’s will for being gay.
He can consider himself lucky under Sharia law. If he were married, he could have been stoned to death. Other punishments for simply being gay include chemical castrations, imprisonment and execution.
Source: Independent
No kidding Paul, however I don’t think we as a modern secular society should jail and lash promiscuous gays, or advocate such barbaric religious laws.
Annie – I don’t think as a secular society it is in our best self-interest to promote promiscuous sex of any type.
Karen, Those Americans who contracted Ebola were those damn fundamentalist Christians just trying to save the souls of Africans. They had it coming. They should not be brought home to the US. Let those damn fundamentalists stay in Africa and die.
This can’t be true. After all, Saudi Arabia is one of our staunchest allies and we have a policy of invading countries suffering under sharia law.
Lou – Sharia Law creates savage human rights abuses in each and every country where it is practiced. We need an open and honest, unafraid conversation condemning it. We can distinguish between peaceable, Westernized muslims, and those who support Sharia Law and its abuses.
We were unafraid to condemn the Catholic Church, rightly so, for its entrenched pedophilia scandal. Abuses in the name of Islam also earn a rebuke.
Lou – it is beyond the pale of reason that Obama would hold a summit with leaders and staff from the 3 countries currently in an incurable, 60-90
% incurable Ebola epidemic. Why are we so naive? When there’s an epidemic, whether here or abroad, we should quarantine the source countries. That’s the only way to avoid a global pandemic. We can already see how it’s spread to 3 countries. It has an incubation of 21 days. That allows a lot of interaction.
Squeeky did the Saudi gay man have AIDS? Or are you saying all gay people should be treated as IF they are infected and punished if they engage in promiscuous sex?
Annie – there is a resurgence of HIV among young gay men who prefer to go ‘bareback’ rather than wear condoms. All gays should be very very careful.
It is my understanding that 100 lashes is a death sentence. Even if they break it up, it might be intended as a slow, painful death sentence. The type of lash they use flays.
doglover: “How is that any more depraved than long term imprisonment and various forms of torture and violence for the crime of self-medication?” Are you kidding? How is whipping someone, possibly to death, flaying the skin from his back, for his sexual orientation, any worse than incarcerating drug addicts in US prisons? Is this a question? Sure, there can be a discussion on the pros and cons of decriminalizing self-inflicted addictions, but are you confused or unsure of what the difference is?
Squeeky, One must appreciate irony to understand history. AIDS was not treated like a sexually transmitted epidemic for PC reasons, led by the King of PC, Ted “Fredo” Kennedy. Not having public health officials treat it like heterosexual NON FATAL diseases like chlamydia, herpes, etc. ended up in the death of thousands of gay men.
@annie
I am saying a society has the right to protect itself from sickness and disease. What this guy was doing, trying to hook up with multiple partners, is what has the U.S. MSM population at 20% HIV rate. Those odds are worse than Russian roulette.
Some people think creepy idiots have a perfect right to have as many sexual partners as they wish and to heck with the impact on society. I think society has the right to say no.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
A gay sting by “Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice” eh?
If he wants a blasphemy charge added on he should raise the entrapment defense.
Annie, add lady boys.
Squeeky, add Ebola virus (body fluids). Some are coming to ATL, US today.
Keep your gas tanks filled, bottled water ready, meals ready and emergency kits ready.
I’ve been doing this since 9/11. I saw the 2 WTC in NYC crash!
This is will be happening in Texas soon w/ fundamental Christians. Preemptive strike.
Not surprised. Why anyone would support these people is beyond me.
Squeeky, are you saying the punishment for being gay under Sharia Law is warranted?
Yet certain Islamic men buy young boys from their families and use them sexually and for entertainment, dressing them up and teaching them to be dancing boys. Bacha Bazi boys of Afghanistan. Sick societies.
This just blows…. These folks are insane….
Hmmm.
Gay male+ promiscuous sex = AIDS /HIV Epidemic = Sick and dead people.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Not fair to call out Islam on alone regarding this issue. Ugandan persecute gays as well with support of evangelical Christians.
Did a comparison of Saudi Arabia Law vs. Gaza, Hamas Law. Here’s Hamas cofounder Mahmoud Zahar’s position:
The Hamas-controlled Gaza strip has declared homosexuality punishable by death. Hamas cofounder Mahmoud Zahar has said, “You in the West do not live like human beings.
You do not even live like animals. You accept homosexuality. And now you criticize us?”
In an broadcast on Hamas’s Al-Aksa TV, which was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Syrian academic Muhammad Rateb al- Nabulsi said,
“Homosexuality involves a filthy place, and does not generate offspring. Homosexuality leads to the destruction of the homosexual. That is why, brothers, homosexuality carries the death penalty.”
Not sure if Zahar or Nabulsi are still alive. Israel’s IDF has been busy, today. Hamas’s Al-Aksa TV doesn’t exist anymore (bombed). No more death penalty talk.
How is that any more depraved than long term imprisonment and various forms of torture and violence for the crime of self-medication?
that is the religion of peace for you. Blasphemy, burn them to death even if she is a 8 month old child in pakistan. Driving while female, arrest her, if not stone her?
should I go on, oh wait that is not the religion, it is just some “crazy” people who misinterpret the peaceful teachings, well if that is the case, then does it mean that the writer of Quran was not able to write a clear book?