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Bodies of dead gays dug up and thrown in front of their parents homes.; Fred Phelps must be beaming
Topic Started: Apr 11 2010, 08:05 AM (230 Views)
CHAS
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kenny
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Wow.
Just wow.
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sue
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I hardly know what to say. That is unbearably sick.
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I wonder what is the genesis of this. I'm sure that homophobia is a longstanding feature of most of these cultures, but why the virulence now? What is happening that is bringing this to the surface at this particular point in time?
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Apr 11 2010, 04:47 PM
I wonder what is the genesis of this. I'm sure that homophobia is a longstanding feature of most of these cultures, but why the virulence now? What is happening that is bringing this to the surface at this particular point in time?
In March 2008, Senegal hosted an international summit of Muslim nations, which prompted a nationwide crackdown on behaviors deemed un-Islamic, including homosexuality.

The crackdown also coincided with spiraling food prices. Niang says political and religious leaders saw an easy way to reach constituents through the inflammatory topic of homosexuality.

"They found a way to explain the difficulties people are facing as a deviation from religious life," says Niang. "So if people are poor — it's because there are prostitutes in the street. If they don't have enough to eat, it's because there are homosexuals."

Muslim sermons

Imams began using Friday sermons to preach against homosexuality.

"During the time of the Prophet, anytime two men were found together, they were taken to the top of a mountain and thrown off," says Massamba Diop, the imam of a mosque in Pikine and the head of Jamra, an Islamic lobby linked to a political party in Senegal's parliament.

"If they didn't die when they hit the ground, then rocks would be thrown on them until they were killed," says Diop, whose mosque is so packed during Friday prayer that people bring their own carpets and line up outside on the asphalt.

Sermons like Diop's were carried on the mosque's loudspeakers as well as in Senegal's more than 30 newspapers and magazines.
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I find this a bit unsatisfying, or perhaps rather too partial and incomplete. This outburst of homophobia is not something that is confined to the Muslim parts of Africa while leaving the Christian and animist parts of of the continent as islands of civility and tolerance. Yoweri Museveni's Uganda, for instance, is largely Christian. The Nigerian Anglican church is not splitting with the US church because of economic policy, is it? It's all about sex.

Economic travails can indeed be used by leaders to cement their authority as they rouse the rabble with incendiary calls to restore the pure faith. But Africa has seen far worse times than this.
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