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| Southeast Asia |
| Brunei to begin stoning gay & bi men under sharia law |
| 2019-03-27 |
| [lgbtqnation] Brunei will soon allow for stoning to be used as punishment for sodomy...."The decision to implement the (penal code) is not for fun but is to obey Allah's command as written in the Quran," Sultan and Prime Minister Hassanal Bolkiah said in 2014 when the changes started to go into effect, adding that the changes to the penal code as a "great achievement."... Several updates to the penal code that were approved in 2013 will go into effect on April 3, according to a notice published on the government’s website. "I am extremely concerned by this move," said Matthew Woolfe of the human rights organization The Brunei Project told Gay Star News. "Some of the laws that we are about to see implemented are horrendous and unjustifiable." Currently ten countries punish homosexuality and have the potential to use the death penalty. Several of them, including Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Mauritania, specify that stoning can be used as a punishment. of special interest here is that a gay rights org put out a call out without using the jargon of intersectionality |
| Posted by:lord garth |
| #11 I was told all cultures are equal. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-03-27 17:54 |
| #10 Gay mafia here in the US unusually silent... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-03-27 16:35 |
| #9 Different strokes for different folks. Who are we to question? |
| Posted by: Regular joe 2019-03-27 15:23 |
| #8 I'll bet if Jessie goes there, he can 'find' a real hate crime. Then he really will be a victim. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2019-03-27 15:15 |
| #7 Watch the UN hypocrites unite to condemn a few raghead pansies being stoned, while these islamist nations have continually treated women the same way for hundreds of years without much intervention from anybody. There's a Gay Star News ?! |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-03-27 14:46 |
| #6 long article in the Daily Mail is here at least Amnesty Intl and Human Rights Watch seem to be condemning the Brunei policy (although no UN related interest that I can find nor anything from the many US based human and civil rights orgs) |
| Posted by: lord garth 2019-03-27 14:17 |
| #5 And people say America is homophobic. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2019-03-27 10:54 |
| #4 where is the UN and HRW condemnation They're focused on people who might actually react to their bull#hit. |
| Posted by: gorb 2019-03-27 10:39 |
| #3 this is not a poor backward country the per capital GDP is close to $30k, the life expectancy is about 78 and there are many college graduates they didn't turn to full stop sharia because of poverty or ignorance |
| Posted by: lord garth 2019-03-27 07:45 |
| #2 where is the UN and HRW condemnation |
| Posted by: chris 2019-03-27 06:52 |
| #1 None of our business. Stay the fok out of it. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-03-27 04:36 |